quote:Originally posted by Lee: What Dukhat said got me thinking. What IS this? Why does it exist?
... OK, we know why it exists. It's to commemorate the 50th anniversary of TAS. But they could have done that quite easily, done a bunch of the other shows in the TAS style much like that fan-made recreation of BoBW, and everyone would have been quite happy. But no, we got... THIS.
So really, who is this FOR?
The only thing I could come up with is that some shithead producer thought that making animated shorts in the TAS style, but with LDS humor, would be a kewl thing to do. Not for any perceived audience, but just so they could pat themselves on the back for their great idea...even though TAS was rarely meant to be humorous. And because LDS's humor is far more stupid than it is funny, that's what these things ended up being.
God forbid these people do something like this for DS9's 50th anniversary.
-------------------- "A film made in 2008 isn't going to look like a TV series from 1966 if it wants to make any money. As long as the characters act the same way, and the spirit of the story remains the same then it's "real" Star Trek. Everything else is window dressing." -StCoop
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That’s 19 years away, not far off how long it’s been since the cancellation of Enterprise brought to a close an 18-year run of Trek TV. So that feels a bit too theoretical at this point, who knows what TV - if we even still call it that by then - will look like..?
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I'll give 'Very Short Treks' one thing...it's made 'These Are the Voyages' and even *shudder* 'Shades of Gray' look like Shakespeare. Maybe cancellation and oblivion wouldn't be such a bad thing after all...
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Which is weird, because LDS is arguably the most-liked nuTrek show to date. Hardly needs to advertise really. Unless it’s just not getting the numbers internationally now it’s not on Prime. Which would account for McMahon’s warning the other day that nothing is set in stone, that LDS could all too easily be 5 seasons and out?
And which I suspect could be said for the other show that started elsewhere - DSC, obviously: it comes off Netflix after s3, s4 is, well, let’s say a bit of a Marmite season, and now it’s cancelled before s5 even airs.
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