I’m afraid that Discovery shit the bed so badly that any show set in the 32nd century is going to be handed a poison chalice right from the start, even if by some miracle the writing team turns out to be actually competent. (Pretty much the only thing that would get me excited about it at this point would be an…
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Yeah, pretty much every major 32nd century advancement Discovery came up with seemed specifically designed by the writers to shoot themselves in the foot and remove all tension moving forward.
The site-to-site transporters, and literally being able to transport guns into (and out of) people’s hands with pinpoint…
Saw the first one of these in the wild a few weeks ago parked over the line like an asshole at Costco.
Rarely have I been so tempted to vandalize a total stranger’s car.
I thought that this was a good but flawed episode. And more proof that RTD has excellent ideas, but the man desperately needs a script editor who can help him focus on the parts of the script that work and rewrite the bits that don’t.
I feel like the entire gaslighting Welsh village bit belonged to an entirely…
Interestingly, this week’s episode of Doctor Who was a script that Russell T. Davies pitched to Steven Moffat back when he was show-runner but they didn’t have the VFX budget to pull it off.
It was originally titled “IRL” and Doctor Who’s attempt to do a Black Mirror episode... with aliens.
I’m cautiously optimistic…
I’m quite pleased that Hit-Monkey got renewed, because I don’t know anybody else who watched it. (It was good weird fun, but also on Hulu... where Disney sends shows they have no faith in to die.)
Somebody must have had very compromising photos of one of the studio execs or they had exactly X dollars left in that…
If I’m predicting the future, and this does turn out to be the plot they go with for Season 1, my double-down prediction for season 2 would be that after unmasking the alien infiltrators, Star Fleet now has yet another war on their hands, so they would shift to the other story you can tell when your show is focused on…
I hope that I’m wrong... I really do, because the show I described really does sound cliché and horrible. Hopefully they’ll be smart enough to find some clever workarounds, but just the core premise itself is already a massive storytelling handicap because before the show even starts you’ve got a cast stuck in a…
Possibly the golden age of Remote Planetary Exploration, since I don’t expect that process to ever stop, even if we do get to the age of interstellar colonization.... assuming we don’t obliterate our own planet first.
Unless we miraculously discover some absolutely amazing physics-shattering warp drive/FTL workaround…
Oh yeah, in Star Trek terms, it would totally be somebody who’s family basically owns the entire Mars shipyards or similar... despite, of course, there being no material wealth in Starfleet.
I’d also accept either an Orion or Ferengi character with black market ties, but that would be dangerously approaching fun.
Before the trailer:
And this is why you and I will never be Paramount executives.
I can already tell you the plot of this entire series because it’s the only plot line that *can* exist when your main characters are all pre-Lower Decks students who have no actual power or authority to be flying starships, handling sensitive information, or in any way saving the universe.
The “first class” of the new…
The only way a Kraven movie would have worked is if they had went full-on goofy and turned him into an over-the-top whale-punching himbo that’s basically a murderous version of The Crocodile Hunter crossed with Brock Samson.
We don’t need yet another brooding mopey (or is that Morbin?) anti-hero with daddy issues, who…
I looked up the guy playing Destruction, and at first I thought “Holy shit, they got the guy who played JQ on Mrs. Davis!” which would have been absolutely hilarious and perfect casting. But it’s a similar looking guy from Longmire I’m not familiar with.
I’ve never been able to picture any other actor in the role…
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#1 should be that it gave us the entire Auralnauts Star Wars saga, which has since expanded to encompass the original trilogy, sequels, and Obi-Wan Kenobi Larry. Which some might argue are actually better written and tighter plotted than the original source material.
Humanity has well and truly entered the “find out” stage of our self-inflicted climate change apocalypse.
And boy it sure does suck when the global warming that was only supposed to affect those godless heathens living out on the east and west coasts finally comes a’ knockin’ on the Midwest, Oklahoma, Mississippi, and…
Nawww.... The Matrix got it all wrong. Why would the robots need us for batteries? The only thing humans are better at than computers is pattern recognition, so get used to living in your techno-dystopia where A.I. run everything and all humans are good for are identifying photos of motorcycles and fire hydrants.
Early reviews for Boom are coming in and absolutely gushing over how good it is... which is exactly the shot in the arm the show needs right now.
As I suspected, Doctor Who under RTD 2.0 is shaping up to be a lot like RTD 1.0, where the episode quality is all over the map (even within the episodes themselves).…