Movies and TV Star Trek: Strange New Worlds - Page 27

Originally Posted by listopencil:
No, I wanted them to actually use characters from ST:TOS if they were going to introduce them to ST:SNW. If they picked a hard one; tough shit. That's the choice they made. Make it work.

Except it did work and it worked exceptionally well.
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Originally Posted by listopencil:
What you're doing here is employing a straw man (arguing against a narrative rather than what has been brought up) and gatekeeping (trying to squash opposing views as being unworthy of discussion). Try engaging in honest discussion and perhaps you won't be confused.

He's the Looniguana of Media Center. Hasn't made a single valid point, ignores every valid point made by others, and only responds with THE 60S SUCKED and and UR A HATER and DONT WATCH IT.
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Originally Posted by Frazod:
He's the Looniguana of Media Center. Hasn't made a single valid point, ignores every valid point made by others, and only responds with THE 60S SUCKED and and UR A HATER and DONT WATCH IT.

If only this wasn't entirely false. TOS was a great show. Shitting on an otherwise great Trek series because it isn't closely following everything that was done then (including its silly character designs that were only a product of the budgetary/technological constraints of that era) is absolutely ridiculous criticism though.
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I mean, they literally gave you guys exactly what you were asking for right after the musical episode and it still wasn't good enough because the Gorn didn't look enough like this guy in a clunky lizard suit from 1967:

What are they seriously supposed to do with this?
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Great episode. Just wish they hadn’t wasted two episodes getting there. Gorn went from kind of silly (always reminded me a little of a zombie sleestak) in TOS to pretty scary. Like it.
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Originally Posted by listopencil:
I want a ST:TOS reboot but Spock isn't an alien. He's just a French guy who is studying Philosophy. Everybody has a hard time connecting with him emotionally because of the language barrier but he's really smart.

:-)
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Originally Posted by KC_Connection:
Except it did work and it worked exceptionally well.

Except that they didn't do it, they did something else.
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Originally Posted by listopencil:
Except that they didn't do it, they did something else.

I disagree. They did about as well as they could have considering that design.
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Originally Posted by KC_Connection:
I disagree.

Imagine swapping a ST:SNW Gorn into the ST:TOS episode and having Kirk fight it. It wouldn't work.
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Originally Posted by listopencil:
Imagine swapping a ST:SNW Gorn into the ST:TOS episode and having Kirk fight it. It wouldn't work.

And that's a good thing because that fight is absurd by today's standards and was a product of 1960s television.
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Originally Posted by KC_Connection:
And that's a good thing because that fight is absurd by today's standards and was a product of 1960s television.

It's a good thing only because it proves that I am correct.
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Originally Posted by listopencil:
It's a good thing only because it proves that I am correct.

And because it is a good thing (see the almost universal reaction to the Gorn season finale episode).
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Originally Posted by KC_Connection:
And because it is a good thing (see the almost universal reaction to the Gorn season finale episode).

Yeah, I loved the new Gron episode.
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Originally Posted by listopencil:
Yeah, I loved the new Gron episode.

With any luck, they'll come back with a clunky old 1960s era Gorn costume for the S3 premiere. Wouldn't want to upset the canon.
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Originally Posted by KC_Connection:
With any luck, they'll come back with a clunky old 1960s era Gorn costume for the S3 premiere.

Or maybe the makers of the show will stop using lazy, weak storytelling. That would be great.
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