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A.I. Borgland Corp posted:Curzon takes Koloth to a monster truck rally to try to bridge the Klingon/Federation culture gap. Young Picard is there flipping his poo poo over gravedigger
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Neddy Seagoon posted:I earnestly want to know how a relatively low-budget homage/parody of 90's Star Trek helmed by Seth MacFarlane managed to turn out to be an absolute gem of a Star Trek show. Because MacFarlane understands that Trek's goofy charm is a feature not a bug.
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EvilTaytoMan posted:The new Picard series is going to be set in the alternate time line where he doesn't get stabbed through the heart. I will never not love that he spends that whole shuttle ride explaining to Wes what it's like to be stabbed in through the back so hard the blade comes out your chest, like Wes didn't have that exact same thing happen like 3 episodes before
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simplefish posted:I will never not love that he spends that whole shuttle ride explaining to Wes what it's like to be stabbed in through the back so hard the blade comes out your chest, like Wes didn't have that exact same thing happen like 3 episodes before Implying that Picard wasn't trying to force Wesley to relive his trauma for his own amusement.
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Neddy Seagoon posted:I earnestly want to know how a relatively low-budget homage/parody of 90's Star Trek helmed by Seth MacFarlane managed to turn out to be an absolute gem of a Star Trek show. Seth loves Star Trek, and so he made a real Star Trek show in all but name. Unlike STD which made 'Space Action Show!' and added Star Trek things so that nerds can go 'I remember that!'.
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Star Trek is such an old and well known brand that it doesn't matter how lovely their product is, there will always be a demographic of people out there who will go "New Star Trek? Ooooh!" Every. Single. Time. CBS/Paramount/whoever owns this thing will keep chasing that Marvel Money until the whole nerd bubble pops or deflates or whatever. They don't care about making a good Star Trek show, they're still embarrassed by it and don't understand what people liked about it for years and years or the circumstances that led to their prior success. They're so greedy, that even if they could replicate that -as they've often tried- it wouldn't be enough for them now.
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BrandonGK posted:But that's a fandom in it's infancy. Give it ten years and the producers will be getting rape threats on their twitter pages because a writer suggested that one of the grizzled space marines is pansexual off screen. Probably not Because our favorite grizzled mechanic IS pansexual. Or something. Amos is complicated as gently caress.
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MA-Horus posted:Probably not Amos is open to savagely beating up any race, gender, or creed.
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Facebook Aunt posted:I love that the shuttles literally have gamer chairs. On the one hand it's not hard to tell that The Orville is definitely done on the cheap (at least compared to other modern space shows), on the other hand I respect the way they work within that a hell of a lot more than Disco's "lol we slipped our release date by several months because our set and costume designs were so complicated, also how many fuckin' Starfleet deltas can we pack into a single frame?"
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Farmer Crack-rear end posted:On the one hand it's not hard to tell that The Orville is definitely done on the cheap (at least compared to other modern space shows), on the other hand I respect the way they work within that a hell of a lot more than Disco's "lol we slipped our release date by several months because our set and costume designs were so complicated, also how many fuckin' Starfleet deltas can we pack into a single frame?" Buying the vintage Battlefield Earth special Tilted Cameras wasn't cheap.
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A.I. Borgland Corp posted:I wonder how the Orville pulled it off? It's a purposeful rip off of Trek, more diverse than the current trek series with more actors of color, and I guess the "new" part is presenting it as a comedy full of dad jokes. It understands that camp is necessary for good Star Trek, but that it still needs to deliver the science fiction commentary.
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It has a definite sense of whimsy and wonder I haven't seen from trek since maybe season 2 of Enterprise
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The Leg was the best goddamn joke I've seen in any sci-fi in a very very long time.
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I like how pristine it was when it fell out of the ceiling, funnier with like one of those tiles you see in an office ceiling. Like it's Connolly ridiculous and makes no sense but you don't particularly care because it's really funny
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Jun 26, 2018 01:23
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Orville being cheap as gently caress seems like all part of the charm though.
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Some % of fans will always be nuts, that's not a good reason to just say gently caress all the fans. 
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Iron Crowned posted:I'd play an Orville MMO Shut your dirty mouth with this they might take you seriously
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Moridin920 posted:Shut your dirty mouth with this they might take you seriously An Orville point and click adventure game?
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Jun 26, 2018 03:19
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Cheap sets on sci-fi shows is like a tradition. My dad used to point out all the various HVAC parts he'd see on the sets of shows like Babylon 5.
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'Sci fi with cheap sets' always sounded like an oxymoron to me. Even HVAC parts nailed to plywood and cardboard is far more expensive to design and build than just driving to an office or house for your typical soap opera or comedy
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Hell even in Star Wars they just straight up repurposed a funky-looking ice cream maker as a communications device
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STD is not perfect but it's fine, and better than all non ds9 and Orville trek
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Trast posted:Cheap sets on sci-fi shows is like a tradition. My dad used to point out all the various HVAC parts he'd see on the sets of shows like Babylon 5. Babylon 5 was a triumph of "spraypainted banana"
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simplefish posted:Hell even in Star Wars they just straight up repurposed a funky-looking ice cream maker as a communications device All the blasters are tacticlol WW2 surplus guns.
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basic hitler posted:STD is not perfect but it's fine, and better than all non ds9 and Orville trek Lol imagine thinking STD was better than TNG
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chaosbreather posted:'Sci fi with cheap sets' always sounded like an oxymoron to me. Even HVAC parts nailed to plywood and cardboard is far more expensive to design and build than just driving to an office or house for your typical soap opera or comedy yeah, a disused office costs $0 to do set dressing, but hell you can get an entire wall worth of Styrofoam containers at GFS for like $25.
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Scifi with cheap sets, as opposed to Scifi with expensive sets.
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I could never mind B5 or The Orville's set cheapness considering one of my favorite films is Dark Star.
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Okay, I'm a good way into the first series of ENT by now. It's hitting all the right buttons for me. It reminds me so closely of the imported American weekend afternoon TV that the UK got when I was a teenager. Like Stargate. It's scratching that exact itch and is equally as nostalgic as late TNG/DS9/early VOY but in a completely different way. God drat it's like I'm back there. Even though I never watched any ENT when I was that age.
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Standard Def was a lot more forgiving for scifi, you could make a little money go a long way without the seams and cheap materials with quick paintjobs showing through in every shot. Babylon 5 in 4K would probably be the funniest poo poo ever.
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I just watched a voyager episode about Q trying to get laid which spiraled into an American civil war set and Q on Q finger action and I'm not sure how to take it all
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barbecue at the folks posted:Standard Def was a lot more forgiving for scifi, you could make a little money go a long way without the seams and cheap materials with quick paintjobs showing through in every shot. Babylon 5 in 4K would probably be the funniest poo poo ever. "Jesus, what YouTube channel are you watching?!"
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Colonel Cancer posted:I just watched a voyager episode about Q trying to get laid which spiraled into an American civil war set and Q on Q finger action and I'm not sure how to take it all Just pretend Q stopped existing after his appearance on DS9
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Colonel Cancer posted:I just watched a voyager episode about Q trying to get laid which spiraled into an American civil war set and Q on Q finger action and I'm not sure how to take it all You should take it with Jameson, straight.
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And now Captain Janeway stabbed a giant virus with a knife.
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I'm watching Ministerio del Tiempo on Netflix. Alonso is 16th century Spanish Riker. He gets laid in every era he travels to and he steps over chairs.
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mycomancy posted:You should take it with Jameson, straight. Indeed. 
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simplefish posted:Okay, I'm a good way into the first series of ENT by now. ENT started out okay (not great, but okay) and then 9/11 happened and it went to poo poo for the next 2 1/2 seasons*. Just as it started to get decent again in the last half of s4 it ended. *Shran episodes excepted
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I'm going to watch ENT after I finish Voyager because I really hate myself. Is it really that bad?
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