Comment on Alex Kurtzman Gives Live-Action Comedy Update, Says Star Trek Can “Broaden”
MrPoopyButthole@lemmy.dbzer0.com 21 hours ago
What I want from Trek:
✅️ A sensible tone, mostly serious and sometimes silly. Like real life. ✅️ An exploration of morals, ethics and the human condition, aligned with the mostly utopian future depicted by 80s and 90s Trek. ✅️ An episodic plot that is not overrun by a season arc but not devoid of character development. ✅️ Occasional fun episodes with dress up and jokes. ✅️ Full orchestral score. ❌️ Too many action scenes and explosions. ❌️ Too much budget on CGI. ❌️ Over the top cheesy fan service. ❌️ Rewriting cannon. ❌️ Excessively American oriented script. ❌️ Lazy storytelling. ❌️ Reusing plot devices.
GenderNeutralBro@lemmy.sdf.org 20 hours ago
Spot on.
SNW is good but I don’t think we’ll ever see a return to the old TV format of 20+ episode seasons. You can’t do random episodic stories all that well in 6-12 episodes. Short seasons have no room to breathe.
Even Futurama has this problem with the two new Hulu seasons, and that’s without the burden of an overarching plot to keep moving forward.