Me too but I'll be incredibly surprised if the "no one's safe " rule gets used in Trek going forward.
Indeed.
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OH yes! Watched it from start to finish. I was actually originally drawn to it because I heard Colm Meaney was attached to the project (for obvious reasons). That, and I've always been drawn to quasi-historical dramas like that (Deadwood, Rome, etc.) I was pleasantly surprised at the depth of Mount's acting abilities in that show, as I had never heard of, or seen, him prior to that point. When I heard they chose him for DSC Pike, I knew he would bring it up a notch (and he did).
It is. I checked it out when I heard that they were hiring Mount to play Pike. I now have Cullen Bohannon as one of Pike's ancestors.
I loved that show to death.
Yes, the show sucked, but Anson did a ton of work coming up with his own sign language for Black Bolt. That impressed me.It was a great show. Made up for Mounts involvement with the Inhumans.
Inhumans never existed. The timeline was erased by the TVA.It was a great show. Made up for Mounts involvement with the Inhumans.
Looks like we might be encountering the Talarians again, given the prominence of of the talarian republic on the background map behind Spock
I like to think that the aliens from Unexpected - who had holodecks 200 years before TNG - joined the Federation during the D's construction, and the Galaxy class ships were the first with the vastly improved holo-tech they brought with them.
This is from left field somewhere in the back of my mind ...
I could see Them doing a story in which Spock or Number 1 end up going into the future for some reason and finding that after spending a length of time on Talos, Pike was retrieved and offered a cure.
Be kinda cool if it was M'Benga that does it.
(also be cool if Pike turns it down)
There was an issue of DCs Star Trek series in which 2280s era Spock gets permission to go to Talos because medical technology has advanced to the point they can cure Pike, but Pike declines his offer to return.
It's pretty clear that holodecks are just an extension of laterna magica. We got film, and thought it pretty cool, but film with sound was cooler. Colors, better still. Screens at home, an improvement. Bigger, flatter, bendable, 3D, 38DD, fully immersive - there is always room for improvement. I trust the devices of "Practical Joker" could do better than cartoon quality, and perhaps 2250s home sets could outperform the starship ones we saw in DIS (I mean, home entertainment tends to outperform comparable government work by a wide margin).
What SNW needs is just parity with DIS, meaning visually perfect holograms for everyday use. Our TOS heroes never were particularly impressed when facing those (especially since the VFX tech of the day would not have allowed for the portrayal of IMperfect holograms). Tactile feedback, editing, the AI behind the simulations, all those can be humorously lacking if need be. Or then not, and they are already perfect, but the discerning customer will want more perfect, and will get it.
No showstoppers there, then. Whatever the makers of SNW can come up with, it won't outperform TNG, because TNG, too, chiefly relied on old style VFX techniques where total perfection was the only option.
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Inhumans had excellent casting. Serinda Swan and Anson Mount have proven that with their work elsewhere. We need better writing and direction if we revisit the characters, though. And maybe, move the series from Hawai'i to Toronto?
But we digress.
Is Disney/MARVEL planning an ETERNALS TV show?
I haven't seen anything about that.
Feature film.
Yeah, that I know about, but DEWLine's post made it seem like there was a TV show also in the works.
I guess I read more into it than he meant.
The Inhumans are a different hidden race with superpowers than the Eternals.
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Inhumans were derived from human-baseline by the Kree as a weapons development project. MCU and comics versions, both share this backstory.
Comics-only, so far as I know right now: Eternals, centuries earlier, in a similar project by the Celestials, along with the Deviants. And mutant potential was built into our ancestors in the same Celestial project.
But again, we digress.
Comics-only, so far as I know right now: Eternals, centuries earlier, in a similar project by the Celestials, along with the Deviants. And mutant potential was built into our ancestors in the same Celestial project.
But again, we digress.
OR...we forget that Inhumans ever happened, and never speak of it again.
