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- Comment on Gargoyles Live-Action Reboot Officially in Works at Disney+ 1 year ago:
I wonder if perhaps it’s because it’s a purely Disney product and theyre a little apprehensive of making an older skewing disney cartoon.
- Comment on Gargoyles Live-Action Reboot Officially in Works at Disney+ 1 year ago:
Gargoyles was made to go head to head with batman tas and they both did a great job of going right to the end of the line of what a tv-y7 could get away with(and probably couldnt get away with today). That said like Batman they both were designed to target kids and for all the brilliance there were episodes that skewed a little younger, and little touches like how shows of that era had to dance around words like “kill”.
In addition to the usual stigmas surrounding animation I wonder if another factor in this is that it’s a pure Disney branded product. While they have plenty of edgier stuff in their back catalog that should let people know their cartoons arent just for small children, the rep is there and they may not be ready to put out a tv-14 or even tv-pg cartoon that targets young adults and teens. It was find when its some licensed anime on d+, or if it’s star wars or marvel, but this is a pure Disney badge.
Of course theres also the usual explanation of cost. Good animation costs a lot of money to produce and while lord knows disney has the cash it might be cheaper for them to just shoot this series in front of the giant tv. I feel like a show with characters like the gargoyales would be counter productive to be live action since they regularly fly, and would need expensive suits or full cgi anyway to work, but I suspect they do the math and no an effects guy is cheaper than a team of animators.
- Comment on Gargoyles Live-Action Reboot Officially in Works at Disney+ 1 year ago:
Hopefully its decent. Personally I would rather an animated reboot, but I imagine theyre going live action to target an older audience.
Lately Ive kind of taken a bit of an indifferent approach to the onslaught of remakes, sequels, and series coming back from cancellation years later. If it’s good it’s good and thats neat. If not meh, I dont have to watch or engage with it and hopefully it dies a quick death. I kinda wish that Hollywood would focus more on new and original ideas instead of their focus on sequels, IP, and reboots, but that’s not going to change anytime soon.
At least Gargoyles has been off the air for about 30 years so it’s not like theyre beating a dead horse here. If done well it could be interesting and would be very possible to provide a fresh take. That said it being live action doesnt leave me feeling optimistic.
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Lower Decks | 4x07 "A Few Badgeys More" 1 year ago:
Yeah a little bit of a shame how inconsequential the pairings wound up being, but still a fun outing. Also I enjoyed how both A & B plots dealt with AI threats with one being silly but existentially deadly, and the other AI being superficially deadly but relatively harmless.
- Comment on ‘Star Trek: Lower Decks’ Cast Talks About The Big Change For Season 4 1 year ago:
The show managed to be surprisingly great. Superficially it looked like a rick and morty knockoff, but the series really has a good sense of humor while balancing the wacky off kilter fun in a way that still feels like star trek.
- Comment on Officer Training in days of NX-01 1 year ago:
According to memory alpha there is a starfleet training command:
…fandom.com/…/Starfleet_Training_Command
Which makes sense. We know universities and such are around. Trip is an engineer, hoshi was a uni professor.
- Comment on What Upstate New York city is Jonathan Archer from? 1 year ago:
Upstate wouldnt have to be a city at all. Could be a town, hamlet village, unincorporated land, state park. Archer was young enough to have been around while earth was still rebuilding in theory.
Upstate itself is also a very general location for the state. It’s most commonly used by people from the NYC metro area to refer to pretty much anything north of the bronx. This means upstate could in theory refer to anything from Westchester or Rockland county, to Watertown, to Niagara falls(though dont tell a western new yorker theyre from upstate they’ll throw a fit).
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | 2x10 "Hegemony" 1 year ago:
Ah butts. Until I read your post I forgot that a writers strike is going to make the outcome of this episode up in the air.
Pay your writers big corpos and stop trying to figure out how to reanimate actors corpses with Ai so you can use them forever !
- Comment on DS9 S2 "Second Sight" 1 year ago:
My headcanon regarding the federations seemingly impossibly rosey outlook on psychological trauma is that they genuinely have good mental health treatments. That we have the ship’s counselor as a member of bridge crew in TNG is indicative of how important and useful they are.
Between that and psychics existing, the federation is pretty good at dealing with trauma at least in a way that keeps things functional.
In the case of inner light however I suspect the device was designed to have a dreamlike quality to it since it wouldnt be helpful for your knowledge spreading device to cause trauma to whoever it comes into contact with. You remember the important bits and major pieces of historical information but a lot of it kinda fades as just a dream.
- Comment on DS9 S2 "Second Sight" 1 year ago:
Yeah, I don’t think that I enjoyed any shoehorned romance with Picard especially…
I didnt mind inner light but I guess since that involved him living an entire life in this kinda simulation thing that it wasnt quite shoehorned.
- Comment on The Galaxy Class Starship 1 year ago:
Its such a great ship design. elegant and round
- Comment on Warp Five: Director Jeff W. Byrd Takes Us Under the Cloak of the Klingon War 1 year ago:
It was a great episode overall. I love that we got to deal with the medical side of mental trauma and that we’ve been getting a more expanded klingon war.
One of the most disappointing things about discovery is that it takes place during the klingon war, but it really doesnt do enough with the actual war aspect of it. We get a few skirmishes and some internal klingon struggles and we hear about how bad the war is going, but we dont really see most of it since it’s not the main focus of discovery. Seeing the war be better addressed in Strange new worlds has been great.