feelings of Trump aside, people are such massive pussies

Ike Perlmutter disapproves.

The review doesn’t complain about it not being funny, not making sense, or having poor production values. So instead he complains about higher-level concepts like tone and voice. So that means it’s probably reasonably entertaining if you aren’t a TV critic.

I agree, and I suspect somewhere he’s gnashing his teeth over Fuller pulling out of Star Trek: Discovery.

It’s hard to get a serious Si Fi show on the SyFy Channel, getting one on FOX has to be close to impossible. 

I count four humans in the DS9 cast: Two Siskos, O’Brien and Bashir. They’re still mostly the fine, upstanding types I referred to but they were in a more hands-on situation requiring them to get their hands dirtier than anyone on TNG ever had to. It was the all of the aliens that gave the show its rough and tumble…

What now? Seth has voiced Stan, Roger, and numerous other smaller characters throughout the entire series.

Yeah I’ll give this a shot but it seems like he should have somehow tried to sell Fox on just a serious sci-fi series without the sitcom patina. Who knows, maybe he did and this was the only way to get the project done.

What are you talking about? MacFarlane has voiced Stan throughout the show’s entire run. Roger too.

Disney having their own streaming service makes way more sense than CBS/NBC/whatever. They have a near monopoly on two of the most lucrative markets - kids and dorks - which will inevitably make it successful.

This is a well written review, and I appreciate the opportunity to read it. But the main criticism appears to be that the show is still searching for a consistent voice and tone. I don’t think that is a fair criticism to make based off of three episodes, especially not at this length. I can think of a ton of great…

There’s no real villain in this except marketplace competition. I don’t see how Disney or any other content based company has many options if they want to remain independent. The ad-based broadcast/cable model is collapsing. Theatrical movie revenues are dwindling. The only sustainable path to profitability is…

My takeaway from this article and others I’ve read is that it’s ST:TNG but with more realistic characters. Practically every human in the various Star Trek incarnations has been the super-shiny, perfectly upright version of humanity that would be a spectacular goal for us to aspire to but few will ever reach. However,…

MacFarlane probably still has some say in the scripts for American Dad, after all he’s still doing voice-work for the show. In general though, MacFarlane isn’t actually directly credited for writing any of his animated shows including Family Guy, beyond the pilot, he leaves it to his other crew, he just happen to have…

The dynamics of the industry are pretty fascinating, and there are definitely going to be some entrants that fall flat on their face.

I think there’s a lot of people who are totally comfortable with the idea of having multiple streaming subscriptions. If you think of them like add-on cable packages, they’re actually…

My guess is that he’d like to be making an actual scifi show, as earnest the albums of standards he’s released, but Fox probably won’t pay for anything other than a comedy, so we’re getting the two mashed together.

Star Trek rarely even approaches Galaxy Quest. Galaxy Quest is way too high of a standard to apply here.

I wish I had the energy to go search out my ancient takes telling people who wanted to make cable a la carte and dreaming of a “cord cutting” future that they were short-sighted morons.

The only way this Disney streaming service matters is if it’s fully comprehensive. If it has things coming on and offline due to the vault or some marketing team, fuck it. If I can’t log in any time of any year and watch Black Cauldron, Darby O’Gill and the Little People, and the 1975 Escape to Witch Mountain, then…

Norm is on it? I was already planning on watching it because Seth McFarlane is actually really funny no matter how much internet people like to bag on him(best Oscar host in a long time, that’s for damn sure), but Norm really sells it for me. Woot!