Something we learned in Dream Catcher on November 11th, the day after I posted my speculation above on November 10th.
Something we learned in Dream Catcher on November 11th, the day after I posted my speculation above on November 10th.
I'm rewatching this episode in preparation for it's return this week. Of all the Kurtzman era treks, this is one of the only episodes I've seen at least 3 times. It really was a good start to the series, in hindsight.
Ragtag untrained crew on a derelict ship. Can't help comparing it with the USS Challenger, from the "New Earth" TrekLit miniseries. Which is a part of the concept I like a lot, because I really wish there had been more Challenger novels. Although here, at least, they're not having to use a cobbled-together-from-spare-parts ship.
CLB says nothing so far to contradict The Higher Frontier, which is good, because The Higher Frontier is a masterpiece. Or at least as close to masterpiece as TrekLit gets. Which is to say it's on the same rarefied level as DD's Spock's World.
But I digress. Like LD, Prodigy is definitely a cartoon, in the way that TAS is not a cartoon. That is to say, animated caricatures, not animated naturalistic drawings. But where LD has the look and feel of an animated newspaper humor strip*, this is perhaps more like an animated adventure comic book**.
Over all, I like it. And I, for one, don't mind one damn bit that it's targeted at children. Some of the best-produced television I've seen is targeted at children, and at almost 61 years old, I'd rather watch archives of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood*** than almost anything currently in first-run primetime. (I think I've said it before, that every time Station 19 comes on, I get the urge to break out my DVDs of the complete run of Emergency! -- "Rampart, this is Squad 51. We have an entire station that appears to have lost the 'FUN' in 'dysFUNctional'.")
You know you have appealing cartooning when the characters are grossly unrealistic in appearance, and yet completely believable.
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* If anybody here gives a rodent's patootie, I follow twelve different newspaper humor strips: 9 Chickweed Lane, On the Fastrack, Beetle Bailey (which I've followed since I was three), Baby Blues, Get Fuzzy, Doonesbury, Mother Goose and Grimm, The Wizard of Id, Snuffy Smith, Pearls Before Swine, and Fox Trot.
** I never really got into comic books, although I do have the entire run of the Gold Key Star Trek (in the bound volumes, assuming they haven't been eaten by silverfish), along with a few issues each of other Gold Key titles like Super Goof, Uncle Scrooge, and The Pink Panther.
*** Rather a pity that, so far as I'm aware, there's no archive of Captain Kangaroo, which is what I grew up on. I suspect that the bulk of it got wiped.
CLB says nothing so far to contradict The Higher Frontier, which is good, because The Higher Frontier is a masterpiece. Or at least as close to masterpiece as TrekLit gets. Which is to say it's on the same rarefied level as DD's Spock's World.
But I digress. Like LD, Prodigy is definitely a cartoon, in the way that TAS is not a cartoon. That is to say, animated caricatures, not animated naturalistic drawings. But where LD has the look and feel of an animated newspaper humor strip*, this is perhaps more like an animated adventure comic book**.
Over all, I like it. And I, for one, don't mind one damn bit that it's targeted at children. Some of the best-produced television I've seen is targeted at children, and at almost 61 years old, I'd rather watch archives of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood*** than almost anything currently in first-run primetime. (I think I've said it before, that every time Station 19 comes on, I get the urge to break out my DVDs of the complete run of Emergency! -- "Rampart, this is Squad 51. We have an entire station that appears to have lost the 'FUN' in 'dysFUNctional'.")
You know you have appealing cartooning when the characters are grossly unrealistic in appearance, and yet completely believable.
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* If anybody here gives a rodent's patootie, I follow twelve different newspaper humor strips: 9 Chickweed Lane, On the Fastrack, Beetle Bailey (which I've followed since I was three), Baby Blues, Get Fuzzy, Doonesbury, Mother Goose and Grimm, The Wizard of Id, Snuffy Smith, Pearls Before Swine, and Fox Trot.
** I never really got into comic books, although I do have the entire run of the Gold Key Star Trek (in the bound volumes, assuming they haven't been eaten by silverfish), along with a few issues each of other Gold Key titles like Super Goof, Uncle Scrooge, and The Pink Panther.
*** Rather a pity that, so far as I'm aware, there's no archive of Captain Kangaroo, which is what I grew up on. I suspect that the bulk of it got wiped.
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⏲ Please note there was roughly a 2¼ year gap between these posts ...
I just started watching this series, having checked it out of the library. I'm about half way through season one and I find it very enjoyable. I like the characters and think the voice acting is solid. Kate is especially strong, an anchor of the show.
It feels as if the brothers producing the series have a real love of 'Trek and a good knowledge of the lore. As for the pilot, it's a solid opener, introducing the principle character, providing an engaging mystery, delivering some truly cool antagonists.
It feels as if the brothers producing the series have a real love of 'Trek and a good knowledge of the lore. As for the pilot, it's a solid opener, introducing the principle character, providing an engaging mystery, delivering some truly cool antagonists.
⚠ Please note that until the post above this thread had been inactive for about 2¼ years ...
Keep watching, it gets better.
Apologies for the fragment
Prodigy is great, season four of SNW is a hell of a lot of fun.
I still give the slight edge to Lower Decks but Prodigy is great.