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[–] [email protected] 44 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Man, I don't even want a new Stargate series. All of the franchise reboots lately have been massive letdowns at best.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Star Trek is doing really well

[–] [email protected] 16 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 12 points 7 months ago (5 children)

Only if you don't like Star Trek. Strange New Worlds is fantastic, Lower Decks is legitimately in my top three series in the franchise at this point, and Discovery found it's feet in Season three, and continued to improve from there, just like TNG did. You're missing out

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago

I haven't given lower decks a shot yet, thanks for the feedback pushing me over the edge to try it!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Agreed, Lower Decks and Strange New Worlds are great, but Discovery is unwatchable.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago

It's worth it just for Saru. He's my boy

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

I have watched them all I agree but the new season of discovery the seem to have finally gotten it right.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Discovery didn’t find its feet, it found the bottom of a bottomless pit of bad writing.

SNW and Lower Decks are actually good shows and I can’t believe they got made after discovery’s train wreck. I also can’t believe that I like lower decks. Like I’m supposed to hate it, but somehow it is full of optimism and Star Trek spirit and the writers are big enough nerds that they cram each episode full of stuff for me to find. It’s absolutely amazing and I still can’t believe it exists.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

Yeah, I really didn't think I'd like Lower Decks either. When Paramount released Discovery, which didn't feel like Star Trek at all, and then an animated comedy Star Trek, I felt they had absolutely no right to make fun of Star Trek. Fortunately, the creator and the writers actually do love the show, and it's smart and quick, and really gets what Star Trek stands for. And now, because of the Strange New Worlds crossover (which was a masterpiece), Mariner's actress will be writing for Star Fleet Academy! So I'm excited for that as well

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

Especially the crossover episode.

"......Riker!!!!"

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (3 children)

I'm sure it does. How's season 3 of Picard?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

Fucking awesome

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

That's the only one I haven't actually watched yet. The first two seasons were so bad. I've heard season 3 is good, but mostly nostalgia, which isn't a big draw for me, since I was born a decade after TNG ended lol

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

It was great. But it was just a series of fan service, so exactly for me. ☺

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago
[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago

I loved it and really hoped it was going to come back with that time jump they predicted in plot.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

I grew to like it. I saw the potential for story growth during the second season.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I hated SGU, for all the same reasons I hated Battlestar Galactica except louder.

SyFy had a hit show whose tone was hovering somewhere around "Everything is terrible, you should kill yourself." And where do you go from there? How do you top that? Apparently by heading toward "Everything is more terrible, you should murder your family then kill yourself."

So I cancelled my cable subscription and started playing video games about factories.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, it's not a happy show.

Stargate SG-1, despite the tragic backgrounds of some of the leads, well, we see one plot unfold in the pilot, is one of the more fun and positive sci-fi shows around.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

SG-1 had serious moments and dark moments and light moments and fun moments.

I forget the exact circumstances, but there's this moment where O'Neill and Carter are separated by a force field, O'Neill is on the escape side, Carter is trapped. O'Neill starts pounding on the force field with a chair or something, desperately trying to break her out, and when she says "Colonel just leave me and save yourself." He shouts NOOOO! at her. He's ready to tear the force field down with his bare hands to save her.

This same character delivers the line "In the middle of my back swing?!"