what do you think about the "split timeline"

[dub]

I think it's a clever way to explore familiar characters in new ways without worrying about messing up/with the original timeline. I just wish they wouldn't lift so much dialogue from the original timeline. A little of that can go a long way. But too much is corny. Way too much is face-palm-worthy. But perhaps that's just me.

 

[C.E. Evans]

^^^
I think even if they had done (or will someday do) a straight reboot, there will definitely be tons of echoes from the original continuity. It is pretty much a given we will hear many lines of dialogue from various episodes and movies reused.

 

[The Wormhole]

And on the alternate timeline thing: all I know if I would've pulled something like that in my high school creative writing class my teacher would've failed me instantly.

That doesn't mean anything. I had a teacher who failed me for writing a story in first person narrative, because "prefessional stories aren't done that way." Likewise, anyone who wrote "The End" at the end of their stories were failed for the same reason. I didn't fail, but I lost points for one story I wrote where the characters break the fourth wall and acknowledge they are characters in a story.

School teachers can be some of the most rigid and unimaginative people around. There are times I wish I could just show some of my teachers movies and TV shows of today and say "look at this. Professionals are being paid enormous sums of money to do the kind of things you told me were 'childish and unprofessional.'"

No offense to any actual teachers reading this. I know not all teachers are like this, but be honest, when you were in school you had teachers who frustrated you, or had bosses in the working world who were just as frustrating.

 

[Admiral Buzzkill]

Yep, you're right, they're clueless.

Sorry, but writers don't build hugely successful careers, year after year and movie after movie, by being clueless.

They may well do it by writing movies you don't happen to like.

And on the alternate timeline thing: all I know if I would've pulled something like that in my high school creative writing class my teacher would've failed me instantly.

Your creative writing teacher is not an authoritative arbiter of good and bad fiction, and in this instance doesn't sound particularly competent much less interesting.