Hate sells. I guess people are looking for things to be mad at.
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Hate sells. I guess people are looking for things to be mad at.
Plenty to be mad at in the world to not take it out on a TV show.
The TV show doesn't talk back. I imagine it gives a feeling of control without repercussions.
5 seasons is the standard run, you can expect 30-50 episodes by the series design.
That's a precedent that was set by modern Syndication and HBO.
For a series to make it further than that, 92, it has to be a very good series.
The Nielsen numbers for SNW season 3 are publicly available. While the series potentially lost almost half its viewership (or had many people rewatching seasons 1 and 2 at the beginning of season 3, distorting perceived per episode numbers), it still did well enough to initially trend in the Top Ten Original Series on Streaming.
It totally should though. We have the technology!
I think @BillJ is right. Hatred has become comfortable for many and the Star Trek franchise is a ripe target for a grift centered around dissatisfaction and foming that in to a financial venture.
The biggest frustration for me is the sheer hypocrisy of it all with a franchise espousing diversity of thought, creativity and celebrating differences, and immediately turning on differences.
I don't know how much money they get from youtube, but let's just say not everyone is cut out for onlyfans.
We also have the potential to build mechanical hounds, XD.
The plan WAS to do a streaming movie to end SNW after S4 The producers said they couldn't do a decent wrap up in just a 2 hour streaming film: so they worked with Kurtzman and Paramount and the cast and got the 6 episode 5th season instead.
Like old leather.
I take comfort in the fact that David is much more preoccupied with the (potential) merger with Warner Bros. than he is with Trek.
Well those tweets were nauseating. But then that's par for the course for twitter these days.
More reason to retcon the musk references in Discovery and to praise Malcolm McDowell for killing off shatner
More reason to retcon the musk references in Discovery and to praise Malcolm McDowell for killing off shatner
It’s laughable that anyone would want to cede control of the franchise over to a 94-year-old man who’s moved on with his life.
And remember what happened the last time we had Shatner in the Director’s chair? We got The Final Frontier. Hardly the benchmark for continued success.
But I’m not surprised a certain poster eagerly shared that whole pointless conversation. Par for the course.
And remember what happened the last time we had Shatner in the Director’s chair? We got The Final Frontier. Hardly the benchmark for continued success.
But I’m not surprised a certain poster eagerly shared that whole pointless conversation. Par for the course.
Well, on the one hand you'd expect virtuous Star Trek characters, aka the Great and the Good, to care about the history of spaceflight. But on the other, you'd also expect them to detest the whole idea of free speech, like all Virtuous people. What to do, what to do?
Just the fact that you quoted Stephen Miller, who wants an almost 100 year old man to take over Star Trek (which has zero chance of ever happening and is quite frankly laughable), and then quoting Elon Musk whose opinion about Star Trek is completely meaningless, gave me quite the chuckle this morning. Thanks for brightening my day.
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Shining a spotlight on the abysmal state of Star Trek by people like Musk and Miller and thus putting a little bit of pressure on Paramount and David Ellison is a good thing.
The comment about giving Shatner control of Star Trek is, of course, hyperbolic. It's about advocating for change.
Stephen Miller is a fan of classic Star Trek. I think he cares.
The fact that people like Elon Musk or Stephen Miller don't like the current Star Trek shows is a point in favor of the current Star Trek shows.
Shining a spotlight on the abysmal state of Star Trek by people like Musk and Miller and thus putting a little bit of pressure on Paramount and David Ellison is a good thing.
The comment about giving Shatner control of Star Trek is, of course, hyperbolic. It's about advocating for change.
Stephen Miller is a fan of classic Star Trek. I think he cares.
God, he looked like he had a stick up his ass even then.