TOS fan reactions to 'Discovery'?

[Nyotarules]

Um, they'd realize that it was a TV show made fifty-plus years ago with different sets and actors, and just go with it?

I like to think that most viewers can grasp that without their heads exposing.

Or without their "immersion" being spoiled too much.

I wonder if some modern T.V viewers imaginations are that limited. Do they expect all incarnations of Robin Hood to look like 1950's Errol Flynn wearing tights?

 

[1001001]

I wonder if some modern T.V viewers imaginations are that limited. Do they expect all incarnations of Robin Hood to look like 1950's Errol Flynn wearing tights?

How many actors have played Hamlet since the original production?

 

[Nyotarules]

How many actors have played Hamlet since the original production?

Too many, were there lens flares involved?

 

[Greg Cox]

Hello there, Greg.

You must be new to the board. Welcome!

I'm a cockeyed optimist.

 

[Ryan Thomas Riddle]

TOS could be very action oriented when it wanted to be. Almost every episode contains some form of fight be it mano-a-mano or ship to ship. Amok Time and Arena come to mind.

Gene Roddenberry made it clear to the writers in a variety of memos that Star Trek was an action-adventure show first and foremost. He pushed for more thrills and excitement to capture a wider audience.

Um, they'd realize that it was a TV show made fifty-plus years ago with different sets and actors, and just go with it?

I like to think that most viewers can grasp that without their heads exposing.

Or without their "immersion" being spoiled too much.

I'm a huge TOS fan. It's my first love. But I enjoy DSC for what it is. I see things in a very simple way:

That was Trek then. This is Trek now.

Same approach I took with the Kelvin films.

I even take the concept further. For me, each Trek show stands on its own. It may reference other shows, like TOS or TNG or whatever, but the show is the show on its own merits with its own continuity and rules.

 

[Kor]

It's also not the 1960's. I don't expect the Enterprise on a show made in the 21st Century to look like something from the middle of the 20th Century.

I don't really like any design aesthetic other than mid-20th century modernism (and extrapolations thereof). STDisco just doesn't hit the spot for me visually, except for a few elements here and there like Sarek's home and furnishings. I enjoy the look of The Incredibles movies way more than DSC.

Kor

 

[Marsden]

I'm alright! I'm alright.

I don't think I'll ever get over Macho Grande.

 

[GNDN18]

I wonder if some modern T.V viewers imaginations are that limited. Do they expect all incarnations of Robin Hood to look like 1950's Errol Flynn wearing tights?

Actually…

 

[Nerys Myk]

 

[Noname Given]

How many actors have played Hamlet since the original production?

AND in the original productions, males played the female roles <--- Must be quite a shock that in our times actual females play the female roles.

 

[Nerys Myk]

AND in the original productions, males played the female roles <--- Must be quite a shock that in our times actual females play the female roles.

I'm not comf'rtable seeing a mistress on the stage. - sir christoph'r of pike

 

[BillJ]

How many actors have played Hamlet since the original production?

The more accurate question would be how many of them are supposed to be in the same continuity?

 

[NewHeavensNewEarth]

Maybe that's why Picard always sounds more compelling to me than some of the other captains.

Accents in general are compelling to me, and part of why I could never take Archer very seriously. He sounded more like a baseball coach than a starship captain. I work in a refugee agency in my city, so I always perk up when I hear it.

 

[1001001]

Maybe that's why Picard always sounds more compelling to me than some of the other captains.

Yes his French accent is exquisite.

 

[T'Bonz]

They should have just made him British. It was so stupid that Jean-Luc, raised in France, spoke with a British accent.

 

[BillJ]

They should have just made him British. It was so stupid that Jean-Luc, raised in France, spoke with a British accent.

Britain conquered France in the 2040's. So it is all perfectly logical...

 

[Greg Cox]

Britain conquered France in the 2040's. So it is all perfectly logical...

As proven by the fact that Picard's relatives in France were played by such notably Gallic actors as . . . Jeremy Kemp and Samantha Egger?

 

[BillJ]

As proven by the fact that Picard's relatives in France were played by such notably Gallic actors as . . . Jeremy Kemp and Samantha Egger?

Heck, it may have been a Picard that led the British forces. How they got that sweet vineyard in an economy with no money.

 

[NewHeavensNewEarth]

Heck, it may have been a Picard that led the British forces. How they got that sweet vineyard in an economy with no money.

At least now we know how WWIII got started, and what were its spoils.

 

[Nyotarules]

Britain conquered France in the 2040's. So it is all perfectly logical...

So blame BREXIT?

They should have just made him British. It was so stupid that Jean-Luc, raised in France, spoke with a British accent.

As stupid as Uhura's non-existent East African accent and Geordie's Somalia accent