A prequel to what?
Discovery's lead character will be referred to in the series as “Number One”
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Silence of the Lambs and/or Manhunter.
Fuller's Hannibal isn't a prequel to any existing version, it can't be. For starters, it adapted Red Dragon in season 3, so Manhunter is out. And Silence of the Lambs leads in to Hannibal (the book or movie) which was also adapted into Hannibal's third season.
They weren't able to do Silence material due to rights issues, but they did cherry-pick it for things they could get away with, and even came up with alternate versions of characters. (Such as a renamed female version of Krendler, who was first introduced in Silence but plays a bigger part in Hannibal.)
Except that Hannibal covered Red Dragon (Manhunter) and was planning on covering Silence of the Lambs. And it has a modern-day setting (2010s), which is bothersome because the earlier films all had modern-day settings (1980s to 2000s).
It was purposefully made as a reimagining/reboot set at an earlier point in the character's life than what we were accustomed to. Similar to Bates Motel or Gotham or any of the myriad of other shows about younger psychopaths.
Wow. Sorry.
No.
Not set in the 70s with all the actors magically made younger.
No.
Not set in the 70s with all the actors magically made younger.
I reject that conclusion to begin with. I don't believe it is fair to look back on the 1960s and see only the warts. That's just as bad as looking back on an era with rose tinted glasses and not seeing the flaws and things that needed to be improved.
I don't think they had nearly as far to go as some people think, and I do not think we are nearly that different in our own sins in the present.
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I said they had a lot to learn. It doesn't mean that they were all bad. People from the middle ages were far far worse. I find it amusing that you are so adamantly opposed to the idea that the 60s were worse than the present time while it is the whole point of Star Trek in general that the future is going to be better and better. How can you accomplish that without the past being worse and worse as you go back in time?
They didn't know they were bad.
Probably thought they were amazingly good, considering what their grandparents used to get up to.
Probably thought they were amazingly good, considering what their grandparents used to get up to.
And they were right in that respect, their grandparents did things that were outright shameful.
Woodstock?
I love that bird!
"Your resistance is hopeless - Number One."
So that actually has nothing to do with anything but the quote keeps coming into my head ever since I heard about Number One.
So that actually has nothing to do with anything but the quote keeps coming into my head ever since I heard about Number One.
And folks now think they're behaving a good sight better than they are.
Social justice is better, although progress has slowed down a lot lately.
If they never use her name.... If every one calls her Number One.
They can seemlessly and randomly change the actress several times a season.
Which will stop any one too important from leaving unexpectedly.
They can seemlessly and randomly change the actress several times a season.
Which will stop any one too important from leaving unexpectedly.
maybe every captain calls their first officer number one
We pretty much know it wasn't all captains. (Kirk, Sisko, Sulu, Janeway.)
And there are more flavors of ice cream.
There are also more people starving than at any time in human history.
How do you want to play this game?
I wasn't playing a game, just stating an opinion.
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