Rod Roddenberry, the son of Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry, the CEO of Roddenberry Entertainment, and a Star Trek producer, predicted that “things will get better” under the new Paramount management.
I just can't jump onto the dogpile of hating on new Star Wars or new Star Trek. Yes, sometimes they're dull -- but it's okay to just go watch something else instead.
And -- possibly unpopular opinion -- Starfleet Academy is fine. It's not great -- some of the characters are annoying; so are some of the more teeny storylines. But Holly Hunter and Robert Picardo are fantastic. And it has some meat to it. Some depth and good ideas -- enough to keep me watching, at any rate.
Let me start by saying I'm not saying this to be mean, this is my first time seeing you in the comments, that being said you sound like a person with poor taste. New Star wars was awful, the first movie was good and had potential and the second movie through that potential off a cliff, and most people did not return for the third movie. New Star Trek isn't Star Trek at all, each new iteration since Enterprise only exist to push current day politics and nothing else.
Please excuse me; when I say 'it's okay to watch something else' I don't mean to sound dismissive. Maybe it came across like that.
I agree with you about the new Star Wars films -- they're mostly awful. There are a few interesting elements -- I personally quite like Rey and Kylo -- but those characters aside, the writing is just abysmal, to the point of being incomprehensible. They somehow make the original films retroactively worse. But I can't feel any particular HATE towards those films. At some point, I can only shrug and say, 'This Star Wars isn't for me,' and go watch something else instead.
Ditto Star Trek. I can't make it through Discovery because it's so mind-bogglingly tedious (who knew Starfleet officers spent so much time crying?). And Star Trek: Picard was so bad it insulted its audience, I felt. But, again... I can't HATE on them for that. If anything, the really terrible Star Trek has killed my self-identity as a 'Trekkie'. I'm good to just be picky about what I watch, and walk away when I'm not interested.
(And hasn't Star Trek always been political? They live in a moneyless utopia. TOS had the classic episode looking at the racism of the half-black/half-white guys; even episodes like The Outcast in TNG and Rejoined in DS9 looked at attitudes towards homosexuality.)
Getting rid of Alex Squirtzonmen is a step in the right direction.
SF Academy is shit. I'm done with nu trek and nu SW. Nothing can save them.
I just can't jump onto the dogpile of hating on new Star Wars or new Star Trek. Yes, sometimes they're dull -- but it's okay to just go watch something else instead.
And -- possibly unpopular opinion -- Starfleet Academy is fine. It's not great -- some of the characters are annoying; so are some of the more teeny storylines. But Holly Hunter and Robert Picardo are fantastic. And it has some meat to it. Some depth and good ideas -- enough to keep me watching, at any rate.
Let me start by saying I'm not saying this to be mean, this is my first time seeing you in the comments, that being said you sound like a person with poor taste. New Star wars was awful, the first movie was good and had potential and the second movie through that potential off a cliff, and most people did not return for the third movie. New Star Trek isn't Star Trek at all, each new iteration since Enterprise only exist to push current day politics and nothing else.
Sadly, some people just have low standards...
Thanks, bud.
Please excuse me; when I say 'it's okay to watch something else' I don't mean to sound dismissive. Maybe it came across like that.
I agree with you about the new Star Wars films -- they're mostly awful. There are a few interesting elements -- I personally quite like Rey and Kylo -- but those characters aside, the writing is just abysmal, to the point of being incomprehensible. They somehow make the original films retroactively worse. But I can't feel any particular HATE towards those films. At some point, I can only shrug and say, 'This Star Wars isn't for me,' and go watch something else instead.
Ditto Star Trek. I can't make it through Discovery because it's so mind-bogglingly tedious (who knew Starfleet officers spent so much time crying?). And Star Trek: Picard was so bad it insulted its audience, I felt. But, again... I can't HATE on them for that. If anything, the really terrible Star Trek has killed my self-identity as a 'Trekkie'. I'm good to just be picky about what I watch, and walk away when I'm not interested.
(And hasn't Star Trek always been political? They live in a moneyless utopia. TOS had the classic episode looking at the racism of the half-black/half-white guys; even episodes like The Outcast in TNG and Rejoined in DS9 looked at attitudes towards homosexuality.)