That's not technically true. Homer was 36 when the series started, but he eventually became older. I think he stopped at 40, but I haven't watched it for a long time.
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Just a point to address, on everyone who has said that, due to this being an animation, they don’t need to progress time forward (just like many other animated shows do not)...
The trailer established the use of TNG stardates, didn’t it? So, time will clearly be acknowledged in the show. And, for me, McMahon is too big a Trekkie to be messing around with stardates in this.
The trailer established the use of TNG stardates, didn’t it? So, time will clearly be acknowledged in the show. And, for me, McMahon is too big a Trekkie to be messing around with stardates in this.
Stardates don't mean anything in this context though. The years pass in cartoons, it's just that ages tend to slide. To use the Simpsons example again, Bart is ten years old but it was once stated that he was born in 1980. So Stardates may pass, but we don't yet know if the characters will age accordingly.
It's not the 70s or 80s anymore, animation is allowed to tell deeper stories than it did in the past.
Though I wonder if Prodigy will have better story telling than Lower Decks. If Prodigy tries to be something like Avatar the Last Airbender, while Lower Decks tries to be Family Guy, Prodigy will be better.
If Lower Decks is like Final Space, an adult sci fi cartoon that has silly and serious moments, that will be good, IMO.
More than anything I hope it'll be its own thing. It's supposed to be a comedy, so I hope it's going to be funny, but it has been likened to other shows like Rick & Morty, Final Space, Family Guy, Orville and Solar Opposites so extensively at this point, that I just hope it will somehow be it's very own thing none of us can envision now.
Judging by what I’ve seen so far, I don’t see LDS being very ‘deep.’ But then I made that mistake when I first saw The Orville commercials, so who knows?
Fair enough, I am just making a comment animation in general and how animation now is leaps and bounds better than it was in the 1980s. If Lower Decks takes cues from Final Space, it should be decent. I wonder if Prodigy will be better Lower Decks because ironically animation aimed at kids often has deeper storytelling than animation aimed at adults.
The head writer is from Rick and Morty and that show has a deep mythology and a lot of character development and introspective moments with the characters, one of them being exploring Rick being deeply depressed due to his worldview which leads to his lifestyle and at points of being suicidal. it's also shown how his adventures has affected his family, especially Morty and Beth. So I really think the show will get deeper with the characters.
I know nothing about Rick & Morty, so I’ll take your word for it.
It's not for everyone and most of the fanbase is overbearingly toxic, but it's a very goofy show with a lot of fun riffing on mostly scifi and fantasy tropes with some deeper moments with the characters. Mostly exploring why you would never want to associate with a character like Rick and how awful it is to live your life when you're convinced nothing matters, emotional connections are meaningless and the universe is your plaything, something the toxic element of the fanbase doesn't get. It makes me laugh and there was a whole episode dedicated to a planet where snakes are the dominant form of life, they have snake jazz.
The conundrum can be easily solved if the show follows the exampl of Grey’s Anatomy. It started with a group of interns (= medical ensigns) who spend the first couple of seasons studiying and working their way up the hospital’s hierarchy. In later seasons, they’ve become the senior staff, and fresh cast is rolled in to carry on the show’s premise.
A future season could derive fun from the lieutenant junior grades mentoring the fresh-faced gaggle of new ensigns.
While the show is written by a RICK AND MORTY writer, the tone is closer to GRAVITY FALLS which is a affectionate good-hearted parody of Twin Peaks and the X-Files. This is more akin to that.
It helps that Boilmer is so Dipper-like I briefly assumed they had the same voice actor.
It helps that Boilmer is so Dipper-like I briefly assumed they had the same voice actor.
Now see, I've never understood this mindset. Why would you want to see your potential favorite characters leave the show to be replaced by (again potential) inferior characters you may not take to. Hasn't TNG's Pulaski season taught you anything? Nothing good comes of it. No, better for the cast to remain static. If you're going to lose characters, why introduce them at all?
Because I want to see the characters grow and change and getting prompted might mean leaving.
If it means character development I'm all for it.
Growth and change are not good things.They lead to pain and misery and are best avoided.
I mean, I've avoided it as much as possible but it is an inevitable part of life.
Unlike the Simpsons, this show won't go on forever. Mariner is already a screw-up, and she seems already pretty adept at dragging Boimler down with her. Rutherford, while incredibly well-liked by all his superiors, seems to have no ambition whatsoever and will likely turn down any promotion if it takes him away from Jefferies tube duty. The way things are shaping up, Tendi might even turn down a promotion and/or transfer if it takes her away from Rutherford (also, she's becoming BFFs with Mariner, likely not a good combination there).
Seven years as an Ensign is long, but not unheard of. Disregarding the Harry Kim joke, we see several aged Ensigns throughout TNG.
Seven years as an Ensign is long, but not unheard of. Disregarding the Harry Kim joke, we see several aged Ensigns throughout TNG.
I mean, that was the only doom of Picard wasn't it?
