I'm sure many of the same people who were jumping down ENT's throat will be jumping down DSC's throat.I still think this is hilarious. Evidently, soon after ENT was cancelled, fans did a complete one-eighty. People used to jump way the hell down ENT's throat for even the slightest perceived violation of canon. Now, all of a sudden, nobody cares about canon anymore?
And that is one of the worst things possible in entertainment. I dearly hope that DSC won't commit that heinous criminal act.
At the time ENT first aired, I really didn't mind the perceived canon violations, and I didn't mind that the show looked different than I expected. After all, I'm all about bucking convention, challenging preconceived ideas, and turning beloved notions completely on their side.
I just found that ENT bored me to tears week after week after week.
Kor
au contraire, boring tv is linked to an increase in homicide rates!
Two out of three.
Still nice sets tho - not "obviously cheap"
TNG and DS9. B5's space ship effects were crap.
I wasn't disappointed in -ENT - for canon changes, but I did expect it to be a very different kind of STAR TREK. It wasn't. But I must confess that I did not like how Vulcans were portrayed. I could say that of DS9, as well. At the same time ... fans seem to be very forgiving of canon violations and willing to embrace change, if they perceive a cool factor's involved. The Klingons in TMP are a prime example. They're almost entirely revamped and fans are interested in it. When STAR TREK '09 proved that it could do the crew, the fans embraced it, for the most part. And though it was set in another timeline or alternate reality, fans who weren't into that speculated that the series might return to the 'prime' universe and, so, found themselves much more accepting than one might expect ...I still think this is hilarious. Evidently, soon after ENT was cancelled, fans did a complete one-eighty. People used to jump way the hell down ENT's throat for even the slightest perceived violation of canon. Now, all of a sudden, nobody cares about canon anymore?
I move to nominate the solitary "Hey, lets focus on that pilot guy!" episode
Why are you comparing it to other shows that also had shit effects? Compare it to Star Trek produced at the same time (or even a bit earlier.) Star Trek looked far better. B5 does not just look bad compared to today's productions, it looked bad back them. I remember watching B5 when it originally aired and being shocked how bad the space scenes looked. I was used to TNG quality.
B5 VFX looked like video game cutscenes even back in the day they were done. JMS loved to tout how many ships they could get on the screen (always comparing to Star Trek too in his comments on stuff like that) ; but no they didn't look any better or worse then other shows that were using more CGI (in the 1990ies - Lightwave was used for a number of effects.) I didn't think they were particularly spectacular, but they worked for what B5 was.
