This is a heck of a time to release this doc. Kinda wish they had waited a week. Also it’s a bummer that there is a limited time. I might not see this thing until Saturday.
What We Left Behind - Documentary Update Confirms *Some* HD Remastering
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This is a heck of a time to release this doc. Kinda wish they had waited a week. Also it’s a bummer that there is a limited time. I might not see this thing until Saturday.
Perusing that latest email about streaming access, how weird is that video where they're instructing us not to share any spoilers? Is this "The Jinx", are they going to shockingly solve mysteries at the end? Spoiler mania really has gone insane, if we now need spoiler warnings on documentaries about shows that ended two decades ago.
They are supposed to write a Season 8 so maybe that's why there is the spoiler warning. Either that or there is a huge announcement at the end of the documentary, like they got funding to do the entire series in HD.
They can't be seriously hoping that wouldn't leak!
I'm wondering if there's a surprise interview with Avery Brooks after all.
Larry Nemecek, who wrote the TNG companion, has said that some writers and producers had been very reluctant to open up about the first years of TNG until very recently. Some are still unwilling to talk. Compare that to ISB, who never seems to have a story or an opinion he does not want to share. Then again, DS9's writers' room was by far the most stable of all the series, perhaps reflecting better harmony between the writers themselves.
I'd like to hear more about what happened with the writing staff. It seems that Berman started becomeing manipulative after Piller and Taylor left, according to Bryan Fuller.
Even Worf could not have put it more concisely.
Ron Moore's account of his brief spell on Voyager is pretty instructive, as it was that period after Jeri Taylor has left and there were seemingly no adults left in the room.
I may be extrapolating too far, but how Taylor ran the writers room didn't help the writers mature. She may have been too focused on keeping peace.
Yeah, reading his account all those years ago about his brief experience in their writer's room severely put me off of Voyager from there after. What a mess.
What I read is Ron Moore kind of regrets some of the things that happened. He came in feeling like he was going to fix the show and Braga was under pressure because he didn't have a good and equal realtionship with Berman like Pillar and Taylor did and it was his first time being a showrunner. Basically they feel they both screwed up and Moore also at the time was still afraid of leaving Trek because it had been apart of his life for so long.
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Moore and Braga had reason to regret their behavior, but Fuller seemed to think Berman was more to blame. He played the two writers against each other .
Yeah, Voyager had totally different pressures to DS9 as it was basically being asked to carry a whole network, and Braga was pretty young to be asked to be head writer for that. I don't know too much about the politics, but it wasn't happy.
I've actually reached Voyager in my 50th anniversary rewatch, and the problems were there from the start. Half way though the first season and there's literally no episode yet that couldn't have been done on TNG. The fact that they are stranded on the other side of the galaxy is completely irrelevant, save for some lip service about power reserves (which have no impact) and providing a reason for the Doctor's existence.
It's not a bad show, it's just that they dumped the whole premise after the pilot.
Anyway, enough Voyager, the doc will be going live any minute now!
I've actually reached Voyager in my 50th anniversary rewatch, and the problems were there from the start. Half way though the first season and there's literally no episode yet that couldn't have been done on TNG. The fact that they are stranded on the other side of the galaxy is completely irrelevant, save for some lip service about power reserves (which have no impact) and providing a reason for the Doctor's existence.
It's not a bad show, it's just that they dumped the whole premise after the pilot.
Anyway, enough Voyager, the doc will be going live any minute now!
I get the code, I enter it, but then I get an error when I get to the screen where the video plays. I think i'm going to give it one more try, and if it doesn't work I'll try it again tomorrow.
Probably a good thing that I'm not planning to watch it for another day or two. Work out the bugs and heavy traffic!
