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twbrn t1_jed518o wrote
Reply to comment by 007meow in Star Trek: Legacy deserves a chance to exist by AlwaysBi
> Picard Season 1/2 were downright awful.
Both those seasons were way better than season 2+ of Discovery.
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Reply to comment by Archamasse in How a Hollywood writers’ strike can derail a great TV show by IvyGold
> I can imagine believing this if you watch a ton of bad boilerplate TV
So ChatGPT can probably take over for 911 Lone Star?
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Reply to comment by ElectricPeterTork in What TV Shows just go off the rails in later seasons? by Swing-Full
DS9 had the benefit of a separate showrunner and writers IIRC, but yes, the TNG crew were essentially trying to double-up handling both TNG and Generations at the same time.
That said though, the writers have also talked about how after seven seasons they were basically running out of plotlines, finding it increasingly difficult to come up with something that they either hadn't already done, or it had been decided previously that they weren't going to do.
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I'd say the two best I know are Star Trek Discovery's "Magic to Make the Sanest Man Go Mad" and Agents of SHIELD's "As I Have Always Been."
Unlike so many other shows doing this trope, neither of them wastes the viewer's time walking you through the same events slowly getting you into the idea. They know the viewer isn't stupid, and they trust that you're going to follow along, allowing them to dive right into the plot. They also take great advantage of NOT showing every single loop, allowing them to move the plot forward faster and make the most out of the episode's length.
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Reply to comment by TheNerdChaplain in Do shows also decide if they wish to renew? by Lasciviouslibation
IIRC he's mentioned that he didn't even really unpack his bags for six months.
"Chaos on the Bridge" is a great documentary on the disaster zone that was the creation of Star Trek TNG, and the first couple seasons of its production before it found its footing.
twbrn t1_jbk0uh8 wrote
Yeah, most of the rest of us feel that way too.
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Reply to comment by Sharks2431 in What other examples like Henry Cavill on The Witcher are there of an actor being opposed to the way their character is portrayed - especially when the actor is in the right? by unitedfan6191
It's the desperate need by the GOT haters to oppose everything about the show.
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Reply to comment by Mr_Know_It_All0408 in What other examples like Henry Cavill on The Witcher are there of an actor being opposed to the way their character is portrayed - especially when the actor is in the right? by unitedfan6191
He's a man in his 60s who hasn't seen real combat in more than a decade, and he took down 11 men before he was killed.
People still whining about this are just desperate to find something to complain about in the show.
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Reply to The Ark is embarrassing! by opiate_lifer
It's Dean Devlin, what do you expect? The guy has made a career out of mostly bad movies that ignore logic and science.
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Reply to comment by Jokerang in Pedro Pascal: The trials and triumphs of the first breakout star of 2023 by BalsamicBasil
And it's not like he hasn't been the lead actor in one of the biggest shows out there since 2019.
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Reply to Have you ever let a show pile up so you can binge rather than watch weekly? What does that say about our viewing habits? by TimeTraveler3056
I do that with most shows that I want to see. I like not being stuck to anyone else's schedule and taking things at my pace. Sometimes that means 3 episodes in a night, sometimes it means I don't touch something for months. It's my choice.
Pre-streaming days sucked until DVRs were available.
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Reply to comment by ryhaltswhiskey in Pantheon is fascinating by ryhaltswhiskey
I stopped after episode two, honestly. With no second season, the girl getting her dad back seems like as good a place to leave it as any.
twbrn t1_ja0glom wrote
Reply to comment by skellener in Pantheon is fascinating by ryhaltswhiskey
For being a small player in streaming and needing to curry favor, AMC+ certainly seems intent on telling its viewers to go fuck themselves.
twbrn t1_j9x5nob wrote
Reply to comment by miklat106 in Andor: WOW by [deleted]
When Stellan Skarsgaard's character shows up, things are about to get serious.
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Reply to comment by yeroii in One in Ten U.S. Adults Pirated TV, Movies or Live Sports in 2022 by abunchofjerks
It's more convenient right up until it isn't. When you were looking at two to four streaming services--say Netflix, Amazon, Hulu, and HBO--it was convenient.
When you're looking down the barrel of eight to ten streaming services to get the same amount of content, there's going to be a sharp rise. Especially with services like HBO and the like now farming out a bunch of their content to smaller streamers.
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Reply to comment by Col_Irving_Lambert in One in Ten U.S. Adults Pirated TV, Movies or Live Sports in 2022 by abunchofjerks
Let's rephrase it: one in ten adults ADMITTED to pirating content.
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Reply to comment by thesweeterpeter in Hunters : episode 7 of season 2 is a standalone episode that rivals the quality of Ozymandias of breaking bad. it is so ridiculous good. by redbullrebel
> Check out a god walks into a bar from watchmen.
Technically it's "A God Walks Into Abar". It's a pun.
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Reply to comment by grandmofftalkin in What’s actually a good/tolerable example of retconning? by unitedfan6191
> Right and TNG both the series and movies never showed a relationship with the two of them beyond captain/crewman.
I wouldn't agree with that. Data routinely went to Picard for a lot of things. Picard's the man who was teaching him humanity through acting. The man who stood between Data and Starfleet first when they wanted to experiment on Data, then when they wanted to experiment on his daughter. Data was more than anyone else responsible for saving Picard from the Borg. And Data sacrificed himself to save Picard's life.
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Reply to comment by drogyn1701 in What’s actually a good/tolerable example of retconning? by unitedfan6191
> It doesn't line up at all with his explanation in the Firefly pilot.
It also doesn't line up with his downplaying of River's mental talents, when he's been expressly told by the project head that she was a psychic. But it makes perfect sense if you consider he's trying to cover that fact up, along with the lengths that he went to to break her out.
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Reply to What is your favorite making of / behind the scenes feature on a TV show? by No-Pineapple9988
There's a one-hour documentary called "Chaos on the Bridge" which is all about the inception and first few years of Star Trek The Next Generation. It's a really fascinating look inside what was very nearly a trainwreck. Between Roddenberry being more than a little off the rails, and the sheer anarchy that ensued when nobody knew what to do, it's insane. One part talks about how the show had hired and fired over thirty writers just in the first two seasons.
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Reply to comment by DavesWorldInfo in Thoughts on David Weber by ChickenDragon123
> Honor is a Mary Sue, clearly. Just because a character is such doesn't have to mean they're not fun or interesting to follow along with
I would agree with both those statements. That said, the big problem I had with the series (besides Weber's very obvious tendencies toward inserting his personal politics) and the reason I gave up on it was that everything goes right for her.
You can have a character who's overpowered, better than others, and even just out and out perfect, but when you then feel the need to make all their enemies stupid, and everyone else fawn over them, and everything just happen to work out in their favor, it kills any real dramatic tension. Having a character overcome superior odds through cleverness and skill is great; having them overcome superior odds because their enemies are idiots who just happen to do everything exactly wrong is boring.
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Reply to So if I pay $15 a month for Amazon Prime, and Amazon owns MGM. Why are they trying to get me to pay $6 a month for MGM+? by MetroStephen53
Because then you'll be paying them $21 per month, of course.
What, you're shocked that Amazon is greedy?
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Reply to comment by JonOrangeElise in CNET's AI Journalist Appears to Have Committed Extensive Plagiarism by iingot
I'm glad that Google is at least trying. The problem with Google though is that they entrust making choices about content to an algorithm, and eventually people find ways to beat it. Like when they started measuring the time people spent on a site as an indicator of content quality, and sites started throwing a ton of fluff at you before they got to the actual information to prolong your visit. (If you've ever wondered why some sites/articles have a recap of the entire history of Samsung before some bit of news about the newest phone, or a long rambling personal story before a recipe for biscuit dough... that's a big reason why.) If there's a way to exploit the rules, people will find it. So I guess you could say I'm on the skeptical side to any kind of automated solution; machine learning only goes so far against human cleverness.
> Curious: what career did you segue too after tech journalism?
To be perfectly honest, I started taking entry level factory jobs to make ends meet. I'm currently looking for another of those, because I don't expect any of the copywriting jobs I've applied for to come through for me, nor any of the remote customer service stuff. So that, and hoping that my next novel meets some success.
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Reply to comment by DragoonXNucleon in CNET's AI Journalist Appears to Have Committed Extensive Plagiarism by iingot
In principle, it sounds good. The problem is that laws are made generally by people who have no idea about how technology works. And even when they do, they don't want to. We're still struggling with laws for something as basic as network neutrality.
There's also a lot of wiggle room that would make it difficult for a one-size-fits-all law to cover and, more importantly, enforce. You'd be looking at needing some kind of agency that actually made sure the rules were followed and settled disputes.
Maybe it could be done on a good faith basis, the way that groups like the Writers Guild of America arbitrate cases among members. If you could get Google and a few other big players on board, you might have a groundswell. But there's a lot of incentive for big tech companies not to want to stop the free circulation of content when the only people they're really hurting are writers and readers, not themselves.
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Reply to comment by Creski in Star Trek: Legacy deserves a chance to exist by AlwaysBi
>Picard Season 1 and 2 were absolute garbage
Hard disagree. So many people hated it just for the fact that it actually tried something a little bit new, without having any kind of cogent criticism other than "Its just bad! BAAD BAAAD!"
> SNW was finally good but the only Star Trek show that actually tried to be Star Trek.
SNW was okay, but let's not pretend that six good episodes out of ten is setting any kind of records.