It is nice to see Discovery, and my favorites of the recent Star Treks -- PIC and LD, getting some love. Paramount continuing to pretend that there is no such thing as Prodigy is annoying. Prodigy is not my cup of tea, but I support other Star Trek fans who enjoy the show.
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The video is from Paramount Plus, who don't currently have the rights to Prodigy, even though the parent company does. If they included it in their promotional material it would effect their ability to either sell those rights to someone else or write the show off for tax purposes.
It's convoluted and stupid, but running your streaming service as a separate entity is how all the studios have it rigged up. Accounting ftw
It’s convoluted and stupid, but running your streaming service as a separate entity is how all the studios have it rigged up. Accounting ftw
Convoluted, indeed. At this point, Paramount+ has zero say in Prodigy. Maybe Paramount+ even mentioning the existence of Prodigy might mess up their write-off (I'm saying this with zero sympathy for the "creative" accounting, just to be clear). I have no idea where Nickelodeon even factors in the Prodigy rights situation. Paramount allowed a sneak peek at Prodigy season 2, episode 1 before, WOW - Prodigy Second Season Sneak Peek!. All in all, a very frustrating situation. It seems the best we can do is keep Prodigy's name alive online and in letters.
Member Captain Pike? Member Spock? Member the Original Series? It's a new era of trek, one where we are literally afraid of moving the timeline forward and giving you anything but retreads of existing characters, hamfisted attempts to mash the JJ movies into continuity for some reason, and space Family Guy.
Calling Lower Decks "Space Family Guy" is an enormous insult to Lower Decks and makes me wonder if you've actually watched any.
Strange New Worlds is the most consistently good any Star Trek series has ever been.
Don't feed the troll
Sorry, I know it's actually space Rick and Morty, I was being flippant.
It's not that either. You really should give it a watch it's actually surprisingly good despite it's superficial appearance.
That might be worse.
Yeah...i member.
I'm enjoying most of the new stuff tbh but its all very safe, but makes for predictible revenue i guess.
I liked 99.9% of SNW, and look forward to more seasons of it, everything else, in humble opinion is unwatchable trash
Have you tried Lower Decks? It's brilliant.
I found it shrill and unentertaining
The first three episodes or so do give off poor first impressions, but once Lower Decks finds its tempo, it keeps it, and absolutely flies with it.
I don't think it's particularly good. It's not bad, there is some good acting, the aesthetics are nice. I'm not a fan of the writing. The character arcs are good, but the episode plots themselves are quite predictable.
As opposed to every other Trek series, which are full of plot twists and unexpected endings?
Touché.