The thing is, CBS is in this to make money. So, they are going to make conservative choices where they think they are necessary.
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The thing is, CBS is in this to make money. So, they are going to make conservative choices where they think they are necessary.
Whereas I don't want to watch something that looks silly. Not in serious drama, anyway.
Are we still talking about Star Trek?
I'll leave it open to interpretation.
So you don't watch period drama if it is set in an era in which the fashion seems silly to you?
While it hasn't been particularly outre with consume design, I think it's worth noting that The Expanse has generally been much better than Trek ever was at portraying future humanity as being culturally different from the present. They literally developed an entire accent for the Belters for crissakes. It doesn't seem to confuse viewers one bit.
The Expanse lost half its audience in its first 3 episodes, and was cancelled after 3o episodes because of, you guessed it, a lack of audience. I can believe a good chunk of people interested in the show at the beginning abandoned the series partly because they couldn't understand what a sizeable chunk of the people on the show were saying.
I don't know how "realistic" the look of Star Trek: Picard is, and I don't care since I'll be dead in 2399. When I look at these photos of the cast in character, the look works good enough for me. I'm happy with this. It looks a Hell of a lot better than the TNG Civvies.
But don't take my word for it. See for yourself.
But don't take my word for it. See for yourself.
And they're probably right.And Starfleet appears to be treating him as a doddering, out of touch, old fool.
The Expanse had great ratings by the standard of Syfy. Seems to have been the fifth most watched show in recent years. And unlike most shows on their channel, viewership actually rose during the last season. I don't pretend to know the reasons why it was canceled, but I am guessing its production by an outside company - along with relatively high per episode costs - had more to do with the cancellation than anything. Regardless, everything Syfy does get shitcanned eventually.
***cough*** Farscape ***cough*** .
To be fair, the first season of The Expanse, early episodes in particular are pretty much incomprehensible unless you had read the novels. And I say that as someone who had read the novels before watching the show.
I doubt the production company had anything to do with the cancellation, otherwise it wouldn't be continuing the make the show for Amazon.
So the school scenes were shot at the University of Toronto
https://www.daniels.utoronto.ca/new...ding-has-starring-role-newest-star-trek-short
https://www.daniels.utoronto.ca/new...ding-has-starring-role-newest-star-trek-short
You spelled Pyongyang wrong.
Everything I didn't like about the 24th Century before seems to have been corrected with Picard.
We gave up with Farscape because of the number of Australian accents
Not sure what the language issue in “the expanse” was, but “the Americans” had a lot of Russian and didn’t seem to suffer.
Belter Creole
They're clothes in the year 2399. Just be glad they don't glow or have rocket boo...
Damn you, TFF.
Damn you, TFF.
I've been a science fiction fan for my entire life. I pick up story structure pretty quickly, as I'm sure most sf fans do. Unintelligible lingo that denies me a more nuanced understanding of the belters than I get, no so much. But maybe that's just me.
I won't argue the Expanse is a very good show. But as for Amazon picking it up, that's due to it being the favorite show of Amazon's owner, a guy worth $150 billion, not because the board figured it would be a money maker for them.
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