The only “child” character I want to know more about is Jake Sisko. I feel like there’s so much more story that could be told about him (I know there was that time travel episode, but the future is not written in stone), his kids and wife, his stepmother and sibling, and having a religious icon for an absent father.…

Part of what I like about the Star Trek experiment being undertaken by Paramount is that they’re okay with not everyone liking everything they put out, but taking some risks and throwing everything at the wall to see what sticks. I’m enjoying these so far, but they’re also short and inconsequential and I’m not going…

Ok, see, Lower Decks is doing loving, knowing, gentle ribbing of Star Trek and Star Trek fans, while staying within canon and being actual Star Trek. TAS was actually trying to do straight up serious Trek in the vein of the original show.

Mainly yes, they don’t have to pay residual payments to creators or for any music they chose to license. Streaming shows that aren’t successful don’t drive new subscriptions or help maintain current ones, so they are a nickel and dime drain to their service. Based on whatever arcane tax laws that apply based on when…

I believe with streaming the company pays a fee to have the content available to stream and then there are residuals when it is streamed by someone. Cutting the shows saves the upfront fee as the low stream count isn’t adding value since people aren’t streaming it. 

when something is “aired” on traditional network television, it runs alongside ads, which is how the station affords the licensing fees to air it in the first place. essentially under the old system, money was coming in every time something was aired on television. thats not the case with streaming. you collect a…

By writing down the value of the assets they can remove whatever cost of funds was used to fund the assets on the balance sheet. Unless you understand corporate finance that statement will appear equally confusing. But it’s the streaming business model that makes this possible - the costs to develop these properties…

I’m still a pretty big fan of Force Awakens - even if it is just a rehash I think it’s a very fun rehash and I love the new cast - but it really can’t be said enough how the new setting established by that movie was shockingly limited in terms of what had previously been done with the sequel stories.

It’s either ignorance of one of the most important parts of cyberpunk culture, or they’re being lazy/disingenuous because they don’t want to complicate the discussion. Either way, all the good points in the world don’t make up for writing an article about BIPOC influence in cyberpunk without so much as a passing…

Saru is the best thing to come from that show, by far. Doug Jones is a master. Elevates every scene.

yeah. its gotten better, especially after it moved to the 30th century but i dont think its gotten better better. it just felt generic with a coat of Star Trek paint.

Agreed. I do hope they didn’t plan a cliffhanger or are using the extra time to refilm a proper final ep. 

That’s my conspiracy theory, that this whole thing’s simply about killing the ecosystem around older editions. Their biggest competitor isn’t rival systems: it’s 5e, much like 3.5 was.

Any new content would have to be under 1.2(or whatever version it ends up being), that is true... But what they have posted now is pretty open, EXCEPT for the “negative” content they want to stop from being published. So far it is barely any different from 1.0a other than that aspect. It seems pretty clear that is…

Yeah this is what it comes down to- like there were a lot of problems with the new OGL and those have been slightly alleviated, but the fact that the option to use the older OGL will no longer remain is still a huge one. 

Lol, so this is where life meets the start of Game of Thrones. I say, what the bananas, why not? A proper war for Dragon battles and Wizards being tossed into dungeons!

I’d say the difference there is that Karloff’s “Ardeth Bey” generally looks like a guy who’d been entombed for thousands of years until recently, whereas Vosloo’s Imhotep looks like an L.A. gym rat circa the late ‘90s.

I secretly kind of want to see Abbott and Costello meet the Scorpion King.

Another thing to consider though, is that while the literary versions of those characters are public domain universal does have a very iconic cinematic take n the characters. They wanted to leverage that, but in my opinion had two main issues. First they recognised that those old films were pretty dated, and those…

I think it’s the same mistake the empire is in the progress of making with the death star.