I'm not entirely sold on there being a decent show buried in there, but 110% the rest.
Thankfully. I gave LD seven episodes and didn't even crack a smile.
No more.
I Tried Again and Still Didn't Like It
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No more.
I haven’t seen that SNW ep. yet so I hope I’ll like them more.
I think I’ll try some later eps. in season 1 or go to season 2.
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I feel that LD was tailor-made for the generation that grew up on Berman-era Trek, which just happened to be the same time period when cartoons got bizarre with Ren & Stimpy and other shows that followed. These two completely different things that we liked as kids are now together at last.
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Like most humor it depends on the joke. I don't always enjoy juvenile humor but can find some measure of enjoyment in it. LD happens to hit the right note of character driven and situational humor.
I like LD, I like most Star Trek, only times it came close to calling it a day was Picard Season 2.. Slog my way though it.. I am a completist, but if something like P S2 happened again, I'd probably not watch it.
Something like I'm the biggest SG1 fan, but i gave up after 1 season of universe.. It sucked so BAD.
Something like I'm the biggest SG1 fan, but i gave up after 1 season of universe.. It sucked so BAD.
The early season 1 episodes are really, really bad (IMHO).
Skip ahead to episode 108, "Veritas", then give episode 109, "Crisis Point" a try. The cringe RICK AND MORTY style stuff does get sanded down a bit, but you really can't treat the series as fully canon or the crew as real Starfleet professionals. At best by the end of season 1, I reached the point of the pluses consistently outweighing the minuses.
Season 2 only really has two weak episodes, and season 3 has one weak one and one very divisive one, but otherwise the series greatly picks up in consistent quality.
That’s how I feel. A completist.
But I did make it grinding through SGU.
Ty. I will go to s1 e8.
Season 2 was better.
They never really did anything remotely Rick and Morty style.
What strikes me as mildly ironic is that many Trek fans consider entire early seasons of TNG and DS9, at least, to be suboptimal (which isn't to say they don't have the occasional gem) and yet now we seem content to judge newer series based on less than half a season's worth of episodes. Have we lost patience with the franchise and now expect greatness out of the gate?
No, that's how I treat all new media now.
I lack the time to sit and wait as is. Shows are something I have limited time to engage with. So, yeah 1 season, max. My parents recommended a show and I tried it. Almost was done with it after 2 episodes, but episode 3 managed to catch me.
It's how I run now.
I'm an old guy who has never seen Ren & Stimpy or Rick & Morty, but LD hits my funny bone. I recognized the dynamic between Mariner and Boimler right away: this is your classic screwball comedy setup with the naive, uptight, straight-laced male ingenue bouncing off against the madcap, rule-breaking, somewhat more worldly heroine. See BRINGING UP BABY, THE LADY EVE, etc.
And the zany, fast-talking tone has a bit of a Marx Bros. flavor as well.
What an interesting insight! I am not a fan of Ren & Stimpy nor of Rick and Morty but I had to get a copy of My Man Godfrey the moment I first watched it! The charm of a screwball comedy describes LD very well indeed. It concisely covers what I was trying to convey before, that under all that fast-talking banter is real heart.
Greg Cox and I are, as they say, "of an age." I loved Ren & Stimpy, I loved Animaniacs, I loved Futurama, and I LOVE Lower Decks. All three offer a skewed view of reality (to a greater or lesser degree) with enough grounding in quotidian reality that I don't lose interest.
That's it. That's all I got to say.
That's it. That's all I got to say.
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