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If after this week's Star Trek: Discovery's incredibly idiotic "Breath Scanner"
I believe there was a "Space 2199" movie pitched but it ended up in development hell.
Off all the past sci-fi shows I would love to see get a reboot it would be Starlost. A reboot more true to Ellison's original vision and taking into account new scientific and technological discoveries would be fantastic considering how baddly botched the original one was.
This has turned into a stron Science Fiction show. Stories are great.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space:_2099
I am curious how badly this show would be picked apart if it was actually billed as part of the ST franchise......I think alot of the love for it would turn to hate LOL
You're probably right.
I don't know that I would, however. I was expecting a (possibly affectionate) parody of Star trek with overly padded stories to stretch out a half-hour's worth of lowbrow comedy to fill an hour slot. What I found was an homage to TOS/TNG era Star Trek with a strong dose of incongruent pop culture humor (plus some lowbrow comedy, but not as much as I'd expected.)
My initial distrust was built far more on McFarlane's reputation than on whether or not it was Star Trek. Despite what some of my old HS friends think, I was never that much of a Trekkie, so at worst I would have said it's too much of a retread of the older shows.
On the other hand, considering how dark Sci-Fi seems to have gotten lately, that was, as I understand it, sort of McFarlane's plan. A return to when space was a setting for wonder, not a battleground, but without the artifical "utopia" Rodenberry imposed on the Federation.
TOS; "The World is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky" with a bit of "The Return of the Archons".
And actually, quite a better story than 'The World is Hollow', with homages to The Starlost and the classic Asimov story 'Nightfall'. A very solid story, more than worthy of Trek. Pity about the lame jokes.
Regarding the design of the ship "The Orville": Am I weird and stuck in the last century, or does anybody else see what I see?
Can't say that I see that. Personally, I like her, I th ink sh e's one of the best designs on TV since Andromeda. Better than most movies have put out in a while too if I'm being honest. Jupiter Ascending is the only movie other than the new Enterprise that comes to mind. I know that movie was very divisive, but those ships were beautiful
My first thought was it reminded me a lot of the Ori ships from SG1.
Hey... I like the lame jokes.
"A thousand light years from earth and you're still awkward in the elevator"
Huh, now that you mention it, she does look like an Ori ship backed into a cheese slicer a few times. I do like her design though
the orville has 3 engines.
Charlize Theron was on latest episode.
It's like they're testing out what direction to go in, they hit social issue, then next one was more violent than i expected.
The Orville seems like a rehash of ST:TOS, ST:TNG, etc., storylines. Feels almost word for word, plus (dated?) low-brow humor, and muddled message. Not sure we'll continue to watch. Would appreciate some original plots. Good production values, tho. Interested to know what folks think of ST:Discovery.
tee heee gordon endeared me lol
krill is attacking colony planet,
someone yells like 'there are families down there'
gordon says like, in the same tone of horror 'there are single people '
yayy for caring about the single people
I tuned in mainly because practically every entertainment critic in every major magazine panned it. So, of course I found myself liking it despite its flaws. Yeah, it's a little schizoid how the tone veers from optimistic, straight TNG-style storytelling to crude and rude one-liners in a hearbeat. And I doubt it will survive more than a season or two given what seems to be an expensive set of production values. So I will enjoy it while it lasts. There are worse ways to spend an hour IMHO.
I'm a big Seth McFarlane fan, so I'll definitely watch this one.
On the other hand, I think there should be a law. It should be illegal on planet Earth to make any movie or animation or image that copies in whole or in part anything to do with Star Trek or Star Wars. If I see one more image or movie that copies those two genres I'll go nuts.
Geez, can't someone use their imagination and come up with something new?
Perhaps they’re not actually using those words, but whatever words they are using are “translated” into 20th- 21st-century “speak”? People speaking authentic English from the 17th century are often hard to understand for people growing up in today’s North America, so often language that was “current” is updated to something more understandable for modern audiences, perhaps the same thing is done for us here, though in the reverse direction? Would we understand more or less if they used "authentic" slang from their period, where we might not understand half of what they're saying?
I’m reminded of the title, “Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone” being changed to “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone” for American audiences only a few years ago because U.S. audiences might not be familiar with the term "philosopher's stone"...
— Walt Sterdan
That was beyond hilarious to me. Apparently Americans are so unlearned that we all missed the best-known alchemy story that exists, and Brits thought the best way to get around Americans having zero lore attached to "philosopher's stone" was to change the phrase to something with zero lore for anyone.
I don’t believe it was the Brits who changed it, but the American marketers (movie and book). A number of other British names and phrases were changed as well, to make it more “Americanized” for the U.S. audience.
— Walt Sterdan
You're probably right that the publisher wanted the change but Rowling is definitely the one who picked "Sorcerer" over something that retained the meaning -cough-ALCHEMIST-cough-
My favorite (sorry, favourite) Harry Potter translation to American was when a 'pot plant' became a 'potted plant'.
Trek used a lot of pre-existing science fiction themes in its storylines, and Star Wars a lot of visual / film-format themes in the productions. Copying copies isn't too much of an artistic crime.