Having read some of the tweets and re-tweets from creative personnel on the Lower Decks team, there’s certainly an overarching sense of disappointment among them. So, I doubt this is some cheeky way of moving into a retitled show, haha. But it’s nice to ponder future possibilities.
(Just editing to add to this a little bit: I've seen a couple of people who worked on the show referring to it as a "cancellation." No one's being coy here.)
The modern television era taketh away all too swiftly, but it can also, er… giveth… when least expected. The occasional hour-length (or whatever) streaming special would be a fine format for further adventures aboard the Cerritos. Give it a few years; it could certainly happen.
One thing is coming into sharper focus for me. Alex Kurtzman isn’t quite as impervious to surprises as he may have once seemed. Discovery had “years and years left” until it didn’t. The way he’s spoken about Lower Decks illustrates a likelihood he was hoping for more; and I don’t just mean the joint statement that he made with Mike McMahan yesterday.
On the one hand, this is to be expected - Kurtzman has sway, but he isn’t the person in a position to make final calls on stuff. He isn’t Paramount. On the other hand, it casts an extra layer of doubt for me on the things he says about the future health of the franchise. Of course, he knows things we don’t, and he’s integral in the fullest fashion when it comes to deciding what moves forward and what doesn’t get off the ground. But between the well-documented ongoing financial woes with Paramount, and the likely-related, potentially-partly-unrelated, conclusion points for both Discovery and Lower Decks, everything here serves as a reminder IMO that, ultimately, Kurtzman is a Berman, not a Bakish.
Anyway, bum news for Lower Decks fans. It’s not my favorite series, but I enjoy it enough. More importantly, a lot of people enjoy it a lot, including everyone who has banded together to create these five seasons.
(Just editing to add to this a little bit: I've seen a couple of people who worked on the show referring to it as a "cancellation." No one's being coy here.)
The modern television era taketh away all too swiftly, but it can also, er… giveth… when least expected. The occasional hour-length (or whatever) streaming special would be a fine format for further adventures aboard the Cerritos. Give it a few years; it could certainly happen.
One thing is coming into sharper focus for me. Alex Kurtzman isn’t quite as impervious to surprises as he may have once seemed. Discovery had “years and years left” until it didn’t. The way he’s spoken about Lower Decks illustrates a likelihood he was hoping for more; and I don’t just mean the joint statement that he made with Mike McMahan yesterday.
On the one hand, this is to be expected - Kurtzman has sway, but he isn’t the person in a position to make final calls on stuff. He isn’t Paramount. On the other hand, it casts an extra layer of doubt for me on the things he says about the future health of the franchise. Of course, he knows things we don’t, and he’s integral in the fullest fashion when it comes to deciding what moves forward and what doesn’t get off the ground. But between the well-documented ongoing financial woes with Paramount, and the likely-related, potentially-partly-unrelated, conclusion points for both Discovery and Lower Decks, everything here serves as a reminder IMO that, ultimately, Kurtzman is a Berman, not a Bakish.
Anyway, bum news for Lower Decks fans. It’s not my favorite series, but I enjoy it enough. More importantly, a lot of people enjoy it a lot, including everyone who has banded together to create these five seasons.
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