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  2. Seto Kaiba
    Eh... now, I'm pretty sure Star Wars did a pretty decent trade for a decade and a half with no new films coming out because they had comic books and novels and such building up the setting and doing their own thing. In fact, isn't that that material got tossed one of the things the fans were upset about when the franchise changed hands? Not enough of a problem to stop the movies from making serious bank. 🤔 They may be bland, uninteresting, forgettable, or even downright cringeworthy at times... but they still put buns in seats in epic numbers at least temporarily. Filoni's the man behind Star Wars's forgettable franchise slop on Disney+. Almost every series there is based on his work from The Clone Wars directly or indirectly. Genuine, utterly unambiguous flops like The Acolyte have his fingerprints all over them.
  3. Seto Kaiba
    So... wading into this with my expectations as low as possible. The new 60th anniversary eyecatch is nice. I have to wonder why the Cerritos and Protostar didn't make the cut, though. The tech here looks... like... honestly the prison transport looks like it belongs to Archer's era, more than a millennium ago. We finally get to the opening credits after 14 minutes of agonizing generic slop... and the title card looks like it was thrown together in 20 minutes using GenAI assets. Honestly, like everything else about 32nd century NuTrek, Starfleet Academy seems to be built around a plot hole. Namely, the idea that reopening the Starfleet Academy campus on Earth is in any way significant. It's the oldest campus, sure. But it's far from the only one. There were EIGHTY campuses in 2401 and that number almost certainly went up not down. There is zero reason for Vance to be recalling an officer who has been out of the service for 15 years and doesn't want to be there to run the reopened San Francisco campus. There's no real reason to reopen the San Francisco campus at all other than creator provincialism. But we have to have a protagonist who's playing the martyr, having resigned in "disgrace" over having made a child a ward of the state after his mother was sentenced to a penal colony for piracy and murder (which is incredibly stupid) and Admiral Vance has to kiss her ass to get things rolling. Also, what is the Discovery-era's fetish with making every protagonist an ex-convict? OK, no... I can't take this seriously anymore. The acting here is absolutely terrible, and the writing might be worse. I am twenty minutes in and I am ready to stop. It's not Section 31 bad, but it's getting there. Robert Picardo delivers a pretty typical performance as Voyager's EMH. It's a shame he's wasting his time here. Because Discovery got made fun of for not bothering to name the bridge crew, Starfleet Academy takes the time to have the Captain personally name every bridge officer on taking command so we know that the writers weren't that lazy again. I have a nasty, nasty feeling that Kerrice Brooks is going to get a lot of hate for her character. Like Mary Wiseman, she seems to be stuck playing a character who is what can only be described as Hollywood Autistic. It's overacted in a way that makes her feel less autistic and more developmentally delayed? Even the Doctor ends up actually fleeing from her due to how obnoxious she is. Yes, the doctor really doesn't know what the word "casualties" means now. "Do not kill your instructor on day one". Words to live by. That's got to be at least second semester curriculum. Also, medical technology seems to have taken a massive step backwards with tissue regenerators now being incredibly painful for some reason? The fight scene at the end has enough shakycam to make you think the lead cinematographer was Michael J. Fox. Oh no, the first episode is bad. It's worryingly bad. "We have learned NOTHING from the failure of Star Trek: Discovery or Section 31" bad. Based on my own experience, I doubt it's culture war BS driving the generous helping of negative reviews. The writing is atrociously, cringe-inducingly bad. If they could fix that it might actually be watchable, but as it is it doesn't matter how good (or bad, in the case of Holly Hunter and Paul Giamatti) the actors are if they're delivering dialog and following storylines that read like someone asked ChatGPT to write Star Trek in the style of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. The series can't decide if it wants to be serious or funny, and it REALLY needs to pick a lane because it can't do both.
  4. Today
  5. rsvictor1976
    I haven't watched Academy yet but I keep seeing negative headlines pop up on my social media feeds. Is the show generally bad or is it one of those, "its bad because of it's woke agenda?"
  6. Dangard Ace
    Watched both episodes. 1 was a set up episode. Almost gave up since the first 1/3 was ...not Star Trek-ky more generic space sci-fi but ploughed on through to give it a chance. Main student characters are .... hey it's high school in space/san franciso! 2 had cameos from multiple shows. Time to rebuild the Federation with hot girl Betazed.
  7. shazam
    Nice! My tracking is showing mine at the central postage warehouse to be delivered either Monday or Tuesday.
  8. Dynaman
    Sounds like what I was expecting... I did watch the first 15 minutes or so of that Section 31 dreck - I'm not even going to bother watching that much of a new Trek show without some good recommendations and that ought to scare the powers that be at Paramount (not me personally, but that so many former Trekkies like myself will no longer make it a point to watch new Trek).
  9. Dynaman
    Star Wars Merchandising is based off the movies being popular. All of that will dry up if the movies don't start making big profits again. I am NOT one of those culture war crybabies. But the new trilogy characters are all completely forgettable. That is a problem. Last I checked Dave had nothing to do with the movies (except perhaps that Clone Wars animated mess that started the whole thing off). The movies are where things went off the rails.
  10. pengbuzz
    "More fun than Discovery"? So are: - root canals - kidney stones - endometriosis - 1,001 papercuts on your hands in a vinegar factory - AI video "Carbon Disco" (Star Trek) - A night time aircraft carrier landing in a storm at sea in 1964 flying an F-4 Phantom II - accidentally sitting on a cattle prod and triggering the device - listening to Prostetnic Vogon Jeltz as he recites bad poetry for nine hours straight
  11. Seto Kaiba
    I was just about to start when I saw this post. One of my friends watched it earlier, and could only manage damning it by faint praise as "more fun than Discovery". EDIT: The initial batch of reviews and review scores are NOT promising. This sucker's sitting at a 35% audience score. That's enough to put it in Trek's bottom 10 titles right off the bat.
  12. Seto Kaiba
    That hasn't really been the case for a long time. Star Wars is a merchandising empire that goes far, far beyond the movies. That's what made George Lucas a billionaire. If anything, it would be more accurate to say the movies and TV shows are a way to milk more money out of merchandising because they're launchpads for toys, for games, for novels, for comics, and all manner of other goods. Does the studio's president deserve some of the blame when the work her subordinates do doesn't produce the intended result? Yes, absolutely. Most of it belongs to the project's creative team who dropped the ball. But that's not what Star Wars's crybaby culture warriors are complaining about. In their desperate delusion, they imagine her to be chiefly if not solely responsible for every single thing they don't like about the franchise (which is ridiculous) and conveniently overlook that those projects were still financially successful and that she presided over a number of extremely well-regarded Star Wars projects like The Mandalorian, Rogue One and Andor as well. The hilarious irony is her anointed successor has a far better claim to being responsible for what ails Star Wars than she ever will. 😆
  13. Big s
    That was half a decade or so ago
  14. Dynaman
    So, has anyone watched this yet (and will admit to having done so)? I'm not inclined to watch it but if someone here says it was great I'll give it a look. Not saying it is bad, but 90210 was all the rage and I had no interest in it. Same for Survivor or America's Got Talent (when everyone at work was shocked I'd never seen it and to this day I never have)
  15. Thom
    Have to agree. She's been president there long enough, and seeing one movie go bomb, and then another, and not change anything in response? She deserves her share.
  16. JB0
    I believe my Optimus Prime did. I'd have to fish box contents out to be certain.
  17. grogall
    Yes. noticed that lots of toy/model companies do that not just in Japan, When Yamato introduced their V.O.T.O.M.'s line they first released the basic version then a month later the RSC version and another month later the RSC with pilot though Toys R Us, then again later the side armaments as an add on pack. Kind of glad that Bandai did a complete RSC with the parts to convert it to a regular Scopedog right from the beginning and only later the basic Scopedog, At least the 1/35 wave kits aren't ultra expensive... Unlike the Hi-Metal R Kumman arc...
  18. Yesterday
  19. Dynaman
    Going to disagree. Star Wars IS the movies. The other stuff was a way to milk money out of the movies. The president of the studio very much deserves the blame when the product does so poorly (at the end) that the studio has to stop producing movies completely for years. Does she get the blame for any particular thing that went wrong, no, but any president of a company that had a product mishandled so badly gets the blame for who they kept in charge during that time frame.
  20. Roy Focker
    I'm about ready to mark all AI trailers as spam. It is bad enough that people have to post every single official image for every single movie. Here's the same official image was already posted here last week but here it is again with a different font. The same images repackaged is not new information. AI trailers are even worst. They are garbage that no-talent thieves spam on YouTube to steal views from actual official creators and actual fan creators.
  21. Papa Rat
    @tekering That blue!!!! This is going to look amazing bookending that previous build. Love it.
  22. Big s
    🤞Gambit has been waiting for his lady love for quite a while
  23. PNW_Sweetie
    Pre-ordered Max yesterday also from BBTS. I’d kick myself if I didn’t pick one up, as I only have the blue -1J from the Hi-metal line.
  24. rsvictor1976
    Finally got my Miriya Veritech today.
  25. davidwhangchoi
    do these missing link packages comes with the red decoder for the tech specs? i miss those and without them it's hard to see Grimlock's intelligence rating.
  26. davidwhangchoi
    i hope they make a new anime and interest in these toys take off.
  27. Scyla
    I know but we are already half way there and no new delay is announced so I want to keep a positive mood and hope that Rogue will be (finally) released this month.
  28. Big s
    There’s definitely room for some cool stuff. The Fallout series is surprisingly good and wouldn’t mind some of the ones mentioned above. Maybe go wild and a Jak and Daxter project for funsies or maybe get the testosterone going with Duke Nukem
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