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Ryuu96 on 01 December 2022
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Machina said:
Ryuu96 said:

SyFy and cancelling Sci-Fi shows, name a better duo.

Black Mirror isn't cancelled: Black Mirror Returns: New Series in the Works at Netflix - Variety

Watch Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, it's great.

I hadn't seen that news about Black Mirror! Last I heard was Booker had sort of stepped away and so it was in limbo. Hopefully the new season turns out good.

I don't agree about SNW - it's 4/10 at best. The Kurtzman lot are pretending to 'get' Star Trek (which they think = more bright colours & lens flare, the Federation giving sermons, and the show being episodic), while continuing to do their thing; gradually the latter will increasingly drown out their reluctant attempts to do the former anyway. There's still almost zero crew discipline, it's full of childish & contrived 'action' scenes and stupid decision-making, and episodes 7-9 are all self-indulgent messes. The season finale was the best episode - solid 7/10 stuff there. Hopefully season 2 is more like that and less like episodes 6-9.

At least we're spared Discovery's endless crying, whispering, and crew mental breakdowns, so there's certainly been some progress.

There were some rights issues which have been settled now as per that Variety article, sounds like Brooker is involved in Season 6. Although Season 5 was a big disappointment Imo and I hope Season 6 is a lot better. Maybe Brooker was doing too much too quickly, he is writing practically every episode of a long running anthology, so I hope the break has done him good.

We'd have to agree to disagree then on SNW as I enjoyed it quite a bit

Though Tbh, Star Trek is like Star Wars a bit for me, I'm not "into" the IP as much as some other fans, for Star Trek, I've not even particularly felt the desire to watch any of the Star Trek shows aside from SNW (and I watched it because I signed up to Paramount+ for another show, ended up enjoying it), I've not watched any of the films aside from the reboot trilogy or any of the shows aside from SNW, little desire to do so.

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