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Star Trek - Brave New Worlds
I remember a few months ago lots of positive discussions on here about this series and - I think Picard. We’ve finished seasons 1 and 2 of Picard and have watched 4 episodes of Brave New Worlds. A bit mixed so far, but we've paid our £17.99 so will plough on. .
We enjoyed Picard, even if the S2 titles were getting a bit Bond movie (Craig era, not silhouetted girls swinging on his PPK.) I never did figure out who the people at the slightly CGI’d chateau Picard were - servants, or what? Oh look, the chateau has been abandoned for decades, but there’s still somehow a working pistol and unopened bottle of wine to be had.
I guess those on the BNW production wanting to keep more of the look and feel of TOS lost the argument early on; at least a red jersey doesn’t quite mean getting zapped within 5 minutes of beaming down. The unspoken problem of the running any ship being a 24 hour concern hasn’t been solved yet either.
Generally, I like what they’ve done with most of the characters, sassy Cadet Uhura, a more active Nurse Chappell; I miss McCoy - no 1 and the doctor both seem wooden and under-powered. Where does No1 actually sit on the bridge? She had the Chekhov position IIRC in The Menagerie/ pilot show.
Good twist with Pike seeing his own death - my wife asks does that make him invulnerable ‘til then? Otherwise, he’s a Kirk/Picard blend. You need to get completely away from the TOS/TNG template, as they have with the engineer character.
Children of the Comet (episode 2 - Uhura episode) got my goat in a few ways. Keeping someone (the doctor’s daughter) in effectively an undead state via a transporter - to bring out whenever you feel like it is staggeringly unethical, not least for anyone in medicine and also made for a lousy reveal.
What I took from the episode was something about how we mostly act on our fears - oh no, the comet is going to destroy the planet - oh no, it isn’t. I just hope the slightly Star Wars/ Avatar looking people on the surface weren’t drowned.
A strange alien artefact that - oh gosh - responds to music; and there’s super-intelligent Spock on scene, basically saying “sorry, I got nothing”. Perhaps I have to face up to the fact that the writers may be too young (and I am too old) to know how unoriginal that idea was, but I’m glad Uhura gets more to do than “hailing frequencies open, Captain”.
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If you want distracting try Justified. First couple of episodes in season 1 start to turn a bit joky but it then picks up pace and had me hooked for all 6 seasons. Very well written.
I remember watching season 1 of Justified on C5 years ago. Just discovered that the whole thing is on Disney+ now, so may have to watch it again... I have to finish rewatching The Prisoner on ITVX first
Which episode order are you using though?
https://www.theatreofnoise.com/2009/02/prisoner-episode-order.html
I watched them on Amazon Prime, and I think that they're still there.
Serious question - don't laugh - how do I access this show, and others mentioned here?
What layer of Hell is reserved for people who've never heard of Firefly?
I'm now 100% out of love with what terrestrial TV currently has to offer. We subscribed to Britbox in the lockdown, but I haven't so far taken the plunge on anything else. Whenever I browse Netflix in a holiday cottage, I don't see any improvement over Freeview.
Firefly is on Disney+ (although I already had it on Blu-ray!)
The line about special he'll is from this scene: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVgbX_YeK-s
Picard is on Amazon
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds is on Paramount Plus
Shhhhh! I've never heard of Firefly either.
Justified and Picard are on Amazon Prime so if you have a Prime account to get your next day deliveries you will be able to access Prime videos.
Firefly was cancelled far too early - they were only allowed 14 episodes and it's horrendous they couldn't do more. They were eventually able to get a movie (Serenity) to close out the story, but a few more seasons would have been much better.
The Expanse almost went the same way, but Netflix and then Amazon saved it. The Expanse is a great TV show too - but the books are even better.
Non-scifi book adaptation - Reacher on Amazon. The series is far superior to the movies. Alan Ritchson is perfectly cast.
I've been wondering about The Expanse - will have to check it out.
Reacher was okay, first few episodes were a bit slow but last three went at a cracking pace.
Think I'm going to try Three Pines on Amazon next - I've been told that is very good.
The Expanse is superb - hard sci-fi that has realistic space battles. The first few episodes suffer from poor sound mixing, but it gets better.
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