CBS is bring back Star Trek to television in the fall of 2016.
http://xfinitytv.comcast.net/watch/Fall-TV-2016/7005481538687668112/688279619768/Star-Trek-Television-Logo-and-First-Look-Teaser-Revealed/videos?cmpid=FCST_hero_falltv
more info @
http://xfinitytv.comcast.net/watch/Fall-TV-2016/7005481538687668112/full-episodes#episode=Video-688279619768
As long as it's not another Deep Space 9 catastrophe.
Quote from: Solar on May 19, 2016, 05:31:16 PM
As long as it's not another Deep Space 9 catastrophe.
You know Hollywood, they always think they can make some better each time around. :lol:
Quote from: walkstall on May 19, 2016, 05:53:20 PM
You know Hollywood, they always think they can make some better each time around. :lol:
They can't invent new ideas so they keep repackaging the old. Most are far worse than the original. The least bad is still forgettable, with the splendid exception of
Battlestar Galactica. (Its prequel, not so much.)
MacGuyver is also returning. Shoulder-length hair? Surfer-dude looks? Expect one season.
http://www.upi.com/Entertainment_News/TV/2016/05/19/MacGyver-reboot-first-trailer-released/4651463655654/
Quote from: Solar on May 19, 2016, 05:31:16 PM
As long as it's not another Deep Space 9 catastrophe.
Had it not been for one end of that wormhole being so close to Bajor, that entire sorry bunch would never have merited Star Fleet attention to begin with. Absolutely worthless all around (with Louise Fletcher perfect as the least likable cast member). Casting and story lines did them in: stay away from Bajor they were pretty good (especially the solar sailing episode).
As for TV's newest reboot: expect lots of special effects and blitzkrieg-style editing trying to make up for relentlessly PC scripts. At least two queers per show, white guys are the principal villains and Earth is the predator, it's just taking us time to
self-identify to all that....
Quote from: quiller on May 20, 2016, 02:41:08 AM
Had it not been for one end of that wormhole being so close to Bajor, that entire sorry bunch would never have merited Star Fleet attention to begin with. Absolutely worthless all around (with Louise Fletcher perfect as the least likable cast member). Casting and story lines did them in: stay away from Bajor they were pretty good (especially the solar sailing episode).
As for TV's newest reboot: expect lots of special effects and blitzkrieg-style editing trying to make up for relentlessly PC scripts. At least two queers per show, white guys are the principal villains and Earth is the predator, it's just taking us time to self-identify to all that....
I can envision a story line on par with Voyage to the bottom of the sea and special effects, where every encounter with a sea monster guarantees a family pack of 4th of July sparklers be set off behind a bank of ENIAC computers.
Actual story lines have been replaced by CGI, where one geek with an Apple has replaced a writing staff of 12.
Just watched the final episode of Castle, the Firefly star Nathan Fillion was castrated in the first scene and began receiving daily injections of estrogen and led around by a frail 90lb model.
I see a gay Superman on the horizon, count on it.
Quote from: Solar on May 20, 2016, 05:24:20 AM
I can envision a story line on par with Voyage to the bottom of the sea and special effects, where every encounter with a sea monster guarantees a family pack of 4th of July sparklers be set off behind a bank of ENIAC computers.
Actual story lines have been replaced by CGI, where one geek with an Apple has replaced a writing staff of 12.
Just watched the final episode of Castle, the Firefly star Nathan Fillion was castrated in the first scene and began receiving daily injections of estrogen and led around by a frail 90lb model.
I see a gay Superman on the horizon, count on it.
I see a gay Superwoman on the horizon, count on it.
Nathan Fillion as the new captain? :confused:
http://www.scifiob.com/sfob-blog/rumor-mill-nathan-fillion-new-star-trek-captain
Quote from: walkstall on May 20, 2016, 03:38:25 PM
I see a gay Superwoman on the horizon, count on it.
I've no doubt that's already written for next season on the current fag channel, CW I think.
Quote from: Solar on May 21, 2016, 05:58:04 AM
I've no doubt that's already written for next season on the current fag channel, CW I think.
Howzabout the interracial lesbian hotties in the all-nude TARGET GIRLS.
I know, I know. I just can't work up a good punch line about the fags.
Quote from: quiller on May 21, 2016, 03:19:09 AM
Nathan Fillion as the new captain? :confused:
http://www.scifiob.com/sfob-blog/rumor-mill-nathan-fillion-new-star-trek-captain
:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
That's actually an excellent choice, but they better start the testosterone treatments now.
After 8 years of estrogen injections and a castration, they have a serious battle ahead.
Quote from: quiller on May 21, 2016, 03:19:09 AM
Nathan Fillion as the new captain? :confused:
http://www.scifiob.com/sfob-blog/rumor-mill-nathan-fillion-new-star-trek-captain
Who the hell is Nathan Fillion and why should I give a damn?
Quote from: Solar on May 21, 2016, 06:03:27 AM
:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
That's actually an excellent choice, but they better start the testosterone treatments now.
After 8 years of estrogen injections and a castration, they have a serious battle ahead.
Sometimes I wonder why we buy you the freaking comic and all you do is color over it.
These people get salary increases greater than what many CPF members make in a year, above and beyond a STARTING salary so grotesque they can't help but become addicted to keeping that cash-cow coming.
Yes, Fillion softened from FIREFLY and SERENITY. For what they were paying him, I'd stand there in a pink tutu or adult diaper just like any other TV clown. But that does not mean he himself became soft or is incapable as an actor of creating a believable James Tiberius Egotrip.
Quote from: tac on May 21, 2016, 06:11:26 AM
Who the hell is Nathan Fillion and why should I give a damn?
:lol: I had to look his photo up and I still don't know who he is. :lol:
Quote from: walkstall on May 21, 2016, 06:16:51 AM
:lol: I had to look his photo up and I still don't know who he is. :lol:
Kemo sabe, there are only a scant handful of TV productions I would dare call worth the money to buy on DVD, and the TV run and its movie follow-up are TERRIFIC as science fiction meets western. Josh Whedon wrote/produced this and Nathan Fillion is splendid, better than great. This has a rare and beautiful thing---it's science fiction with a true heart.
Try here. The war segment opening explains the war the Browncoats lost.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWXI4y6ItYU
This one's for the fans. Or those trying to understand this "Cinderella" of TV, the one TV show cancelled by its network only to pull off the impossible and do a TV movie thereafter. This feature explains this and much more and is an excellent first introduction to the actors and Whedon's people making this the true cult hit that it became.
Any Tea Party believer can identify with the desire to remain free of government's heavy hand. That's what Browncoats do after their war stops shooting but somehow never ends.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnWvUtLQXhg
Quote from: quiller on May 21, 2016, 06:14:16 AM
Sometimes I wonder why we buy you the freaking comic and all you do is color over it.
These people get salary increases greater than what many CPF members make in a year, above and beyond a STARTING salary so grotesque they can't help but become addicted to keeping that cash-cow coming.
Yes, Fillion softened from FIREFLY and SERENITY. For what they were paying him, I'd stand there in a pink tutu or adult diaper just like any other TV clown. But that does not mean he himself became soft or is incapable as an actor of creating a believable James Tiberius Egotrip.
You old romantic you. You've fallen in love with personas as well as formulaic bull shit, it's time for something bold, "Go where no TV series has gone before" (sadistic plagiarism)....
Are they looking for another Saturday afternoon serial, or a Sean Connery character to set this apart from it's predecessors?
Granted, a Nathan persona would generate an instant Firefly following, but that, like Star Treks first run was short, as was FF.
How about new blood and maybe, just maybe, they have actual creative writers with a network willing to spend the capital on a quality set, and not relying totally on CG.
History says they'll shoot for somewhere in between and milk it for a 5 year run...