No, roughly a quarter of the US likes Trump. And I have yet to encounter a person who's reasonable about it. But, again, I wasn't trying to start a conversation about him. So I'll leave it at that, and leave judgments of those people's credibility, and mine, for readers to decide on their own.
USS Enterprise (eventually) on Discovery?
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Well, if we stipulate for the sake of argument that something is bad storytelling, then I'd think that would preclude being entertained by it. It's far more likely to be annoying and frustrating, no?
I think, more than anything, bad storytelling is in the eye of the beholder. Unfortunately, not even I am the arbiter of what is good storytelling.
Not necessarily....because we can dislike something for one reason over here, but appreciate some aspect of it over there. The story can be subjectively bad, but we can still appreciate other aspects of it.
As an example, I don't care for the plot of the Robin Williams movie RV but I appreciate that he did the best he could with the script he had to work with and I enjoy his performance.
Perhaps so — hence the stipulation. You said you were more worried about whether it entertained you than whether it was bad storytelling, though, which suggests that even by your own standards you don't see an incompatibility. That's what I was curious about.
Lest this be overlooked, I've previously stipulated that ST09 was not entirely without merit. It was visually impressive, and it had some decent acting. It's just that those merits are wildly outweighed by the godawful storytelling — that is to say, the fact that it was horrendously written from beginning to end, chock-full of wild coincidences piled atop one another and characters saying and doing things that made not a lick of sense.
I was incomplete in my wording (I just woke up from a nap, I'm old). I am more worried about whether it entertained me than whether or not other people think it is bad storytelling.
From time to time, we get too wrapped up in what other people think of something. I think the first season of Discovery was mostly awful, others think it was great. No one is really right, except in the sense of how it impacted them personally.
I think you can depend upon a thread that keeps going for hundreds of pages containing significant topic drift.
Unless it's a thread about masturbation.
That's a nice design but without seeing more angles of it, which where aren't, there's no way to know how good it really looks.
I'd like that for the next Kelvin movie.This could have been an interesting way to go to tie things together:
Agreed.
I don't really look at it as a finished design. I do think it needs considerable work. But I can see in my mind's eye what could be done if the artist kept at it.
Those pylons and engines are just horrible. What's wrong with people? This looks bad. No bendy pylons; just stop it!This could have been an interesting way to go to tie things together:
Hmmm....I just read this quote, from a structural engineer:
"Straight beam carries only bending moment and shear force whereas curved beam has to carry bending moment, shear force and torsional moment. The torsional moment apprears due to beam's geometry, its centroid of geometry(C.G) does not lie on its length. Resultant force acting on C.G creates this torsional moment at beam supports. Torsional moment will be product of resultant force and lever arm between C.G and supports."
Does any of that matter with a spacecraft operating in zero G?
What matters is that bendy pylons look bad.
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