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Spoilers Star Trek: Strange New Worlds 3x04 - "A Space Adventure Hour"
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Ok, but are we going to apply the same standards to a show in the franchise that we would to a late night comedy sketch show? Galaxy Quest, Black Mirror, and Orville all took on the Shatner mythos or the heroic image of the captain, but didn't do it so directly. I'm not sure Shatner needed to be mocked, his mannerisms in particular, by a franchise he helped make .
Yes, I am.
Mileage will vary but Trek doesn't get a special standard from me because Trek.
So Seth McFarland can outright do Shatner on the Orville?
Why not? It's been comedy fodder for decades.
Go for it. His character couldn't get much worse.
Shatner even commented that he thought Allen was trying to do a Shatner impression when in the episode itself of Galaxy Quest, while Allen notes he drew a lot of inspiration from Yul Bryner in The Ten Commandments.
Yeah, it's not a plot I have any interest in, I was just trying to cushion my criticism in case people thought I was aggrieved at the very idea of Shatner's acting being joked about.
SHATNER'S been shamelessly riffing on Shatner and for decades.
I agree. They outright mocked shatner and TOS. Now they are out to remake to tos. They dont like the way the show looked, was written or acted. Insulting the people who started this
Eh. I laughed at the chair, and had a good time with the episode. No, I wouldn’t want this episode’s approach to become the standard one, but it beats the hell out of “A Fistful of Datas” (which I always thought terrible). Nor would I engage in Totally Shocking! Shocking! catastrophized overthinking about it.
the ship also needs to be refit to use the drive. Voyager wouldn't be able to replicate it and use it right away.
Amazing, everything you said is completely wrong.
Why would I. They are ruining the legacy of tos by trying to replace it. Its good to be aware of that.
Not in my opinon. Its obvious.
It's an opinion, one that most people here disagree with based on the posts and poll numbers.
They're not ruining it, or replacing it.
I refer to autocorrect as autowrong. It doesn't know your intent and automatically makes mistakes.
Most people disagree with? Section 31 anyone.
In what might maybe my fastest turnaround in terms of re-evaluations:
While my overall opinion on this episode hasn't changed (I like it, but also think it's somewhat "iffy" in many regards):
After thinking about it, I think the Spock "twist" (he's the holographic murderer) was quite good in retrospect.
It didn't land perfectly for me on first watch in the episode - mainly because the "rules" about how realistic characters the characters can make weren't quite clear yet (especially as it's a prequel & shouldn't be there in the first place), and the Spock/La'an thing came - well, not completely out of nowhere, but still quite fast.
But after all - it IS one of the better holodeck twists. Not as clever as Dr Moriarty or "our man Bashir". But IMO a close follow-up, still a new & unique twist on the technology, and way above the usual holodeck slob the 90s & 00s series were full of.
What does Section 31 have to do with SNW or TOS?
So...one entry out of how many?
Cognitive distortion is real with a bias towards the negative.
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