Star Trek: Strange New Worlds (Paramount+)

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On 16/03/2022 at 07:00, FloatingFatMan said:

I'm glad you're enjoying it, I honestly am; but I feel that you and I have VERY different definitions of "good", my friend. :p 

Not everything can be The Godfather, hahahaha. 

 

Perhaps Guy Ritchie can do a Star Trek? (I love Guy Ritchie films too)  😆

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I think Pike has what it takes to be one of the greats.  We enter the Strange New Worlds story with the backstory that he knows his outcome, he knows the suffering he will endure - and he ploughs on.  His character development started some 50 years ago!

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On 30/03/2022 at 10:45, Dick Montage said:

I think Pike has what it takes to be one of the greats.  We enter the Strange New Worlds story with the backstory that he knows his outcome, he knows the suffering he will endure - and he ploughs on.  His character development started some 50 years ago!

I'm just looking for a single-story episode series again instead of a season story arc.

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On 30/03/2022 at 18:43, primortal said:

I'm just looking for a single-story episode series again instead of a season story arc.

Don't know the format for now but because the episodes are low on the count compared to double for normal primetime TV they tend to go with a single story arc for those 8-13 eps.  This could be different though and back to more episodic but I fully expect some sort of season arc in there.  Real question is if they're going to wrap it up in the first season or is it going to be something that carries over into the next?

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On 30/03/2022 at 12:00, George P said:

Don't know the format for now but because the episodes are low on the count compared to double for normal primetime TV they tend to go with a single story arc for those 8-13 eps.  This could be different though and back to more episodic but I fully expect some sort of season arc in there.  Real question is if they're going to wrap it up in the first season or is it going to be something that carries over into the next?

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While there will be overarching character arcs, the new series will harken back to the franchise's roots of focusing on stories that are self-contained within one to two episodes.

https://www.cbr.com/star-trek-strange-new-worlds-standalone-episodes/

 

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On 30/03/2022 at 16:43, primortal said:

I'm just looking for a single-story episode series again instead of a season story arc.

I like both.  Personally, I'm a "long term storytelling" guy, as such I loved DS9, Disco and Picard.  But there's also room for "issue of the week" as per TOS, TNG, etc.

 

I'd binge the former, and watch the latter weekly :)

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On 30/03/2022 at 12:10, Dick Montage said:

I like both.  Personally, I'm a "long term storytelling" guy, as such I loved DS9, Disco and Picard.  But there's also room for "issue of the week" as per TOS, TNG, etc.

 

I'd binge the former, and watch the latter weekly :)

I do like the season arc stories but I miss TNG and TOS episode story telling more.

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On 30/03/2022 at 17:22, primortal said:

I do like the season arc stories but I miss TNG and TOS episode story telling more.

I think one issue I have with long-arc storytelling is that the seasons "big bad" has to be bigger and badder than last seasons "big bad".  Nowhere is this more obvious than recent Doctor Who.  Everything has to be more of a threat to the whole universe than the last thing that was the worst thing ever.

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On 30/03/2022 at 17:27, Dick Montage said:

I think one issue I have with long-arc storytelling is that the seasons "big bad" has to be bigger and badder than last seasons "big bad".  Nowhere is this more obvious than recent Doctor Who.  Everything has to be more of a threat to the whole universe than the last thing that was the worst thing ever.

only with bad writing, which new trek has in abundance 

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On 30/03/2022 at 17:27, Dick Montage said:

I think one issue I have with long-arc storytelling is that the seasons "big bad" has to be bigger and badder than last seasons "big bad".  Nowhere is this more obvious than recent Doctor Who.  Everything has to be more of a threat to the whole universe than the last thing that was the worst thing ever.

Whilst I agree, episodic stories have a bad tendency to use a McGuffin to wrap everything up in the last 5 minutes...

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On 30/03/2022 at 15:29, FloatingFatMan said:

Whilst I agree, episodic stories have a bad tendency to use a McGuffin to wrap everything up in the last 5 minutes...

That's one of my beefs when it comes to videogames as well....Look at WoW for example...havent played in a decade but they keep inventing new bigger bad guys and it seems dumb

I think its one of the charms of a Show ending on its own terms before it reaches that point of exhausting its fan base. 

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I'm hoping we get mini-arcs like we had in Enterprise Season 4. I don't like the season long drawn out plots, on any show, but modern trek hasn't done it very well outside of Picard Season 2, but I don't like the one and done approach of prior shows like Voyager and TNG. Two or three episode plots sound like the sweet spot. 

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Whilst I agree, episodic stories have a bad tendency to use a McGuffin to wrap everything up in the last 5 minutes...

As if long arc shows don't do the same thing (Game of Thrones, looking at you).

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