QFT. Most modern writers don't know how to wrangle in the 'modern audience'.
Just look at the absolute glazing that's happening to the Cyclops trailer for Doomsday.
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Just look at the absolute glazing that's happening to the Cyclops trailer for Doomsday.
Yep.
When Harve Bennett took over Star Trek he knew nothing about it so he took the time to watch TOS episodes and in doing so came up with an idea that became TWOK. He didn't say "F it, Ill just write whatever I want because research is too hard." Thats just pure laziness.
At least hire a consultant that knows the subject inside and out. Producers and directors use to do it all the time.
I prefer Doctor Who's Russell T Davies take on the matter. "When it comes to serving the story or serving continuity, serving the story should win every time." Or even better, Terrance Dicks, also from Doctor Who, said "continuity is only whatever I can remember."
Exactly. The minutiae of the continuity should always be secondary to the needs of the story. Star Trek is not some grand history, it is a mythology. And like most mythologies, there are contradictions. So what?
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Served them so very well didn't it?
That's why nobody remembers NuTrek and discusses Classic Trek on an upcoming show's thread.
Nah they spend 400M on a show where they can't even keep track of their own continuity.
At least the ship is slowly turning around.
Sure, Jan. Nobody likes or remembers new Trek. That's why they keep making more of it.
Show lasted decades. So, yeah.
Facts and reality don't seem to apply with some people.
Not just decades. More than half a century, even with the break between Paul McGann and Christopher Eccleston.
Terrance Dicks is one of the franchise's most celebrated writers and the era he worked on the show is considered by many to be its best. Russell T Davies successfully re-launched the show in 2005 and it's run twenty years consecutively since then. So, yeah, it does seem to have served them very well.
Went out on a whimper.
The Kelvin Universe would like a word.Sure, Jan. Nobody likes or remembers new Trek. That's why they keep making more of it.
It's not going anywhere.
And that word would be? The Kelvin movies are their own thing that ran their course and they have nothing to do with the conversation at hand. This is just a whataboutism. NuTrek has been going strong for 10 years.
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Continuity is very important but so too is telling brand new stories to stop a franchise from stagnating.
lmao no it didn't.
Indeed. They went out on an optimistic note. Best of any of the film series honestly.
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