Anyone else watch Star Trek Discovery last night? I decided to watch that rather than Sunday Night Football, and I have mixed feelings about it. I grew up watching Star Trek The Original Series with my dad.
I was into Star Trek until maybe the Next Generation. I couldn’t get into Deep Space Nine and watched maybe a season of Voyager before that lost me. I saw all the movies up into the Next Generation Borg one and I was done there. I especially had no interest in those Abrams reboots. Just has always felt like a dying franchise to me that should just be let go but it’ll never happen.
In the new series, we are expressly told that a certain character is competent, but then this character immediately behaves in a manner no other officer would behave prior to the “Abrams-ization” of the Star Trek universe.
It’s a weird thing. They want these to be militarized ships where everyone acts like professionals but they still want the Captain Kirk Rebel thing where they still go against protocol on a whim…I think they try to “humanize” the Star Trek characters now to be more charismatic and it seems like the characters aren’t unique anymore.
Premiere was broadcast on national television, but all subsequent episodes will be shown exclusively on the pay streaming service.
Ick, that’s terrible. I understand them wanting to do it since hooking people into subscriptions is the big model for making cash these days but it just gets tiresome.
Bears won a shitty game they had no business winning, and that return at the end of the first half managed to make all parties involved look stupid.
I still have no clue what happened with the Lions game. We score the TD, they somehow decide that the shadowy view of the receiver’s knee means that it’s not a TD (when it’s always “inconclusive” every other time) and then just declare the game over right afterward. Fucking amazing how this happens to the Lions every year. I couldn’t even get angry…I’m just used to it now.
I’ve asked my g/f, parents, and sister, all back in suburban Detroit, to try the digital broadcast antennae, with the same results. It appears CBS is deliberately delivering shoddy broadcast in order to drive people to subscribe to their streaming service.
It’s been a while since I haven’t been on cable but I remember CBS always being worse quality than the other three. Not sure if that’s just tradition or what.