The other day I realized the old guy with the ears was in the Galactica reboot show. That's all I have to say about Disco 5 right now. Carry on. Canada. Actually there's one more thing. I looked up the guy and he goes way back with one of the Kids in the Hall. I forgot which one. In Canada.
I don't know what that means, but if it's an insult, up your shaft. I looked the guy up again, Calum Renny Harlin. He is part of the 50 Shades of Grey Cinematic Universe, played a Russian on 24, and was in landmark motion picture eXiStEnZ. You've also heard his gravelly voice in Blade: Trinity, Goon: Last of the Enforcers, and as The Narrator of Frank's Cock. He has won several Canadian Ooby Awards and received a Mukmuk Commendation from the Vancouver Critics Circle.
Callum Keith Rennie has been in a lot of Canadian produced genre shows. I remember he was in a first season episode of THE X-FILES and a couple episodes of HIGHLANDER: THE SERIES... around 1993.
So I got an email for the advanced screening of the finale next Wednesday and apparently the episode run time is 86 minutes!
At least DSC is going off the air with an extended finale and not the one-hour (or less) wrapups that hounded PIC and before that ENT. This is good news to my ears.
Although a part of me suspects this is basically the hour long planned season finale with a thirty minute epilogue added to make it a series finale.
I think they were un-used to writing a 10-episode season, it's the first time they've had to do it for DSC, so the content ended up going over. It's happened before. "Such Sweet Sorrow" went over, so they broke it up into two parts. But here, Paramount+ was dead-set determined "IT MUST BE TEN EPISODES or we'll chop off your heads!" So, we're really getting an 11-episode season that's been packaged and promoted as a 10-episode season. That's my take. But, like @cooleddie74 said, we'll see. If you include commercials, it's a two-hour finale. I'm happy with that. Other Possibility: This time I'm pulling from DS9. The Dominion War ended 5/8 of the way through, IIRC, and the rest was just wrapping up the series and establishing where everyone ended up. Somewhere in there was the battle between Sisko and Mumm-Ra. No, that's not a typo. That's basically who Dukat became by the end. Nurse Ratched was there too, thinking she could have things both ways.
Yeah, the business model has changed from the heyday of network television seasons of 22-26 episodes per season and for better or worse. 10 megabudget episodes is probably similar to producing 20 to 25 lower budget episodes for a broadcast network.
Unfortunately I just got back from Florida and am currently out of funds or I would. Plus I live in California anyway so it’ll be released at 11PM anyway for me.