How many feature film concepts have been trotted out these past few years?
I'll believe it when I see it.
I'm really only interested in the studio doing two things. (remasters.)
The next movie could be complete dogshit, and honestly, I don't care what it is, I'm not watching it.
I don't care about new shows, Academy, Year One, or Legacy...tbh.
Like there could be some interesting characters on Legacy, but I fucking hate Raffi.
I'll say it again, Star Trek Picard is just "Ash vs. The Evil Dead" but with Picard instead.
It's a template made show, and it doesn't really do anything original...did I like season 3? Yeah.
Did I need more Picard after that? Not really.
I don't see where we can boldly go that we haven't been already.
The two things I want to see?
Do those, make some games, let it go into a diabetic coma for a while, and then maybe bring it out, or just let it die.
I have a diagnostic on why these shows suck, it's elements the Orville takes into account, but you need a writer who can game their scripts, and Trek kinda has something to say.
Trek was born in a monoculture time as well, there wasn't a lot of variety and it was there, and it grew.
Modern media is nothing like that, it's hyper-competitive, and as a brand, Paramount isn't going to be competing with Japan for the hearts and minds of young people.
Anime won, it's not a fad, it's a medium.
I'm watching Fallout atm, and every ad break is literally this ad from P+ "Born to Survive", that content feels bland.
It's a bunch of hot actors playing cowboys, spies and cowgirls twirling guns and crashing cars.
People don't want blandness.
IMO, everything new on Paramount +, that isn't South Park, feels pretty bland.
But this bland and cold rustic gun twirling shit is what sells, we're gonna have over 9000 years of "The Fast and The Furious"
None of that stuff has anything meaningful to say, it's just Zoe Saldana yelling at Morgan Freeman then shooting people with a 9mm handgun of the prop master's choosing under golden lighting.
Part of the problem is Western Politics, it's ruined entertainment, either the entertainment has something to say, or it doesn't.
But you don't want to hear either?
Why?
It doesn't matter what side you're on, the future outlook is pretty grim, and Television has lost it's novelty.
No one is happy, and the media can't inspire happiness.
Right now, the world is kinda demoralized.
There is no authority that can be respected, and nothing we can put our hopes into.
I think you need to have some feeling of positivity when it comes to things, and in America, you could elect a perfect president and the American people would still be too depressed to care.
I don't think any one moment preceding 2016 caused as much pessimism as there is now.
We're 10 years into this, and all of the bandaids have been ripped off.
It's going to be a long time before anything really good gets made again, or for people to notice it.
10 years ago, there was hope and optimism, today? Hope and Optimism have been replaced by an algorithm.
Even the Star Trek intro music feels bland and dead.
TOS and TNG had oomph.
DS9 and Voyager had warmth.
(without starting a world war, the two things I want to see have to do with DS9 and Voyager. It's the lone subject that will piss anyone off involving those.)
These 4 themes? You can play in your head and be like "I'd love to watch that."
DSC, PIC, and SNW, feel cold, and the visuals just seem underwhelming.
A human made it, but it's not memorable, it's like comparing Danny Elfman's score for Spiderman to the late James Horner's score.
One of those you remember fondly, the other one, you could interchange it with a bad movie theater candy ad, and you'd not notice a difference.
One, you can play and feel emotion, the other...it feels like something is missing from that score...a soul.
The sound of music can tell you everything wrong with a production.
If the score sounds bland and soulless, then the whole thing is going to be that way.
If the score plays in the back of your mind? That's something you'll carry with you at any age.
Compare Michael Giachinno's scores in the 2000s to the late 2010s, that man's soul has left his body.
Music can't come from a spreadsheet, and imo, if it's not elevating the production, it's hurting it.
Take Picard season 3, where Data and Lore merge, and then he breathes and awakens, then takes over the ship.
The music in that scene elevated it, it was excellent. Picard Season 3's music was on point.
It's first two seasons, I can't remember anything about the music from those.
Also, get rid of Akiva Goldsman, like that would solve 50 percent of any problem.
When he's involved in a project, it's always worse because of him.
...Sir this is a Wendy's.
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