Star Trek Discovery

[N35t0r]

I'm at season 3 right now, and while I think they should have handled some things differently (more detail on internal politics, and move the flashbacks that give the audience information the characters don't have until after they have acquired it), I'm still enjoying it.

[Aeson]

The later seasons were ok. I preferred the first season when the grounder factions still were mysterious, and there weren't so many sky people storylines to follow.

[BeBMan]

The first season of The 100 was very good.

Only 99 to go...


FWIW I completed Troy. It had overall 8 episodes to conclude the Illiad which IIRC covers 10yrs, and finally became interesting in late ep. 6.

Between 1 and early 6 it felt like 100 yrs though, not -10.

Big Spoiler: Troy gets destroyed.

[BeBMan]

I didn't know there is a remastered version of Star Trek TOS with all new CGI for space scenes instead of the original funny oldstyle models.

Point and laugh if you will about this ignorance of mine, but I watched per accident one of the myriad tv reruns for ca. 20 mins and not only was the image quality really good, it also had digital space ships/planets etc. Or maybe somehow we jumped into an alternative universe where CGI made in into tv shows in the late 1960ies....


Wondering if this triggered as much of a debate as the later CGIed Star Wars original trilogy ...

(however, personally, I don't exactly feel like rewatching all ST:TOS just because of this)

[rah]

And were did you see this version?

[Broken_Erika]

I have it on DVD, all they did was re-do alll the special effects, space scenes and cleaned up to footage and sound as best as they could.

[BeBMan]

And were did you see this version?

It was on German tv, I just switched in per accident, then kept watching for a while. Dunno when this version was released, but if B_E got it on disc it must be out for some time.

Dunno if they CGIed Gorn (but guess only the space stuff, as B_E said, as it's easier to replace)

[Broken_Erika]

They made the gorn blink occasionally, other than that it's still a guy in a rubber lizard suit.
I got the box set for my birthday back in 2016...

[BeBMan]

I think those space aliens should blink in different colors (color-coded by species) generally to make it easier to tell which is which. This would be esp. helpful for the lots of ST species which look mostly human.

[Broken_Erika]

[BeBMan]

Does anybody watch The Expanse?

Reviews seem to be really good - but I didn't watch anything of it yet.

However, any recommendations without spoilers pls

[Aeson]

It’s really good

[ricketyclik]

Yep, I recommend The Expanse, much better than the tepid Star Trek. Having said that, I think Discovery is the best series yet - from my Gen X point of view. The original was probably more ground breaking in its day.

[BeBMan]

I guess I give it a try after summer (The Expanse)

[Broken_Erika]