Thanks for the tip, I've already seen it, twice in fact. The first time when I discovered the series on YouTube and then recently when I finally started to understand the whole and the individual characters. There was less of that sentiment here, although also and in accordance with the sources on the wiki. It's nice to watch the series and at the same time have the wiki running in the window next to it so that you don't get lost in the abundance of characters. A really well-made series, although a Chinese person will certainly find some mistakes, abbreviations or missing things.
Star Wars & Sc-Fi Talk
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AssassinsMace
Lieutenant General
AssassinsMace
Lieutenant General
Well how many times can you beat a dead horse...? The dilemma is they're going to wring out as much of they can doing all the same things all over again in a reboot to try to figure out something original which bounds to violate canon. I see why because they are stuck having to bank on the built-in fanbase and audience boxed-in with characters they know to get them to watch hence why they're afraid of doing anything new that takes place in the future with new characters. The problem with the Kelvin timeline was Jar Jar Abrams was involved. Everything he did was superficial and was only about making something that was loved by fans into something that had the only goal to be something he can claim as his. And the primary way to do that is by changing everything that everyone knew before. That's not a fan move. That's an ego move. He wasn't even a fan of Star Trek but he did that with Star Wars too which he said he was a fan.
They should do it all if they're so worried about doing anything completely new. The only thing I saw that could've been interesting with the Kelvin timeline was the different what if scenarios that were possible. But JJ Abrams didn't do that. All he did was change what everyone was a fan of. I was looking for something like what if the Dominion or the Borg invaded the TOS timeline first. That kind of mix. Generally what Star Trek does is a lot is plots where they're trying to save the timeline and restore it to before. So to keep up with that tradition is a whole series of movies dealing with that... mixing eras and genres recasting familiar characters along with new ones and if it's popular they can do something entirely new and don't have to rely on the past and move on.
JJ Abrams poisoned Star Trek with his kind of thinking that led to what happened to Alex Kurtzman's Star Trek. That was an attempt to use something that had a huge fanbase in popular culture and turn it into a social engineering tool for just specific interests. That's why they want to claim a stake in all fantasy because that's the only way they can do it and impose their beliefs in a popular genre. It gives credibility to the charge they're trying to indoctrinate people.
AssassinsMace
Lieutenant General
AI "live" action version of the death of Maul.
Engineer
Major
I never understand the obsession with having windows in space in sci-fi. It makes as little sense as having windows on a naval submarine. Like, what are people expecting to see?
I know its all hypothetical. But sometimes sensors and digital systems fail or communicate the best information and you need to see with your own eyes or have a backup. That is even more important when you are "close" to the subject you are trying to see.
AssassinsMace
Lieutenant General
The new Stargate "reboot" is already dead apparently because of internal politics. Someone from the original reboot concept left and the new guy didn't want the scraps and not get credit if it turned out to be successful by following that plan. Frankly if they weren't going to anything new, why do it at all? When the TV series first came on Showtime, they had some nudity. Then by the time it was on basic cable it was more light in tone. If it was going to be more of the same, why bother? It sort of became cliche.
You know what is even crazier? Those are not actually windows, they are just straight openings in the hull. All of the openings are protected by force fields.