News Star Trek: Discovery Wins Content Innovation Award

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The Fourth Annual Content Innovation Awards ceremony was held earlier in the week in Cannes, and Star Trek: Discovery walked away with...

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[Vger23]

WERST sho EVAR!!!1!1!1

 

[Mudd]

Discovery beat out Gunpowder, Frankie Drake Mysteries, The Road to Calvary, and When Heroes Fly.

Well now, there's some stiff competition...right?

 

[gblews]

Damn, another award. Season 2 has it's work cut out for it.

 

[Fateor]

Well now, there's some stiff competition...right?

Yea... It's really not that impressive given they were pitted against 3 indy shows with a total combined production budget less then a single episode of STD.

 

[Lord Garth]

I'm indifferent to whatever DSC wins or doesn't win. So I don't find it "impressive" but nor do I think it should be an opening to bash the series on reflex. It is what it is. If the competion were stiffer and DSC still won, you wouldn't agree with it anyway.

 

[dahj]

I'm indifferent to whatever DSC wins or doesn't win.

*looks at Golden Gormaganders with skepticism*

 

[Mudd]

Damn, another award.

Any that matter?

 

[gblews]

Damn, another award. Season 2 has it's work cut out for it.

Any that matter?

Only people whose favorite shows have hardly won or been nominated for any, ask this question.

 

[Vger23]

I think it's nice that the show gets any recognition in any arena. I don't know why people need or want to feel otherwise. It's not the NFL. It's not "Super Bowl Champs or Bust" here. This is (supposedly) our franchise. Being recognized and honored is never a bad thing regardless of the form it comes in.

I don't get people sometimes.

 

[Locutus of Bored]

I think it's nice that the show gets any recognition in any arena. I don't know why people need or want to feel otherwise. It's not the NFL. It's not "Super Bowl Champs or Bust" here.

Hard to tell with you spiking the football in the first reply over Discovery winning a four-year-old award that's about as prestigious as a hot dog eating contest.

As you say, it's nice for the show to be recognized in any capacity, and it's silly to criticize the show over this, but it's not a referendum on the quality of the show either.

 

[Mudd]

I would never criticize a show for winning an award, but I'd pretty rarely laud it. I grant that I might be annoyed if I thought that a show picked up some recognition that IMO I didn't believe it merited.

I do think that most awards are meaningless and that it's silly to get excited or boastful about them. @Samuel T. Cogley expressed the appropriately skeptical attitude here toward this kind of thing back in the early part of the century when he'd joke about Enterprise's nominations for "the coveted Best Hairstying Emmy."

The only way in which most awards are meaningful is if they materially further the success of the performer or project.

 

[Lord Garth]

The Golden Gormaganders I did were basically a parody of Awards in general. And because I had fun doing mock awards shows in college. Had I been a fan of ENT, I probably would've done what I did here back in the early-2000s. Just a fun thing pointing out highlights, lowlights, and celebrating the show in general, not anything more than that.

I never paid actual awards ceremonies too much mind. Back in 2004, I thought the Academy Awards took the scene from Crash they lionized out of context. Then, in 2008, Slumdog Millionaire and The Case for Benjamin Button seemed like they were winning everything. As in everything. That year, I started wondering, "Wait a minute? What's going on here? Why is everything going to the same two movies?" Not to knock those films at all, but it's what got me to start seriously wondering, "Are these awards rigged?" I still wonder about that today.

 

[Reyman]

Not sure how Discovery wins any innovation award. They rehashed a lot of things that worked in previous Trek and played it safe.

Human emotion/ Vulcan logic dilemma. CHECK
Klingon lust for war. CHECK
Mirrorverse. CHECK
New type of space travel that comes with moral/ethical/environmental dilemmas. CHECK