They are going to Disney+… I just saw an ad announcing that.
4 Likes
Undone season 2. I loved the first season of this show. It was a cartoon made with some of rotoscoping technique. It told a story of a young woman who could be travelling through time, talking to the deceased or she was just freaking out in the middle of a psychotic episode and nothing she sees is real.
I thought it didn’t even need another season, because the story was very well told and the ending, which left several questions open, was very good and suited to the rest of the show.
3 Likes
Mrs Akbar and I started this yesterday. Lots of fun. Fills the GLOW size hole I have in my heart.
1 Like
Next on Netflix.
I’m a big fan of Usagi Yojimbo by Stan Sakai. An ongoing (I think) comic book series about a ronin hare in feudal Japan. Today I saw that Netflix made an adaptation of the adventures of the samurai without a master and that it should premiere at the end of the month.
The cartoon is set in a futuristic Japan, but with many medieval and fantastical aspects. Samurai Rabbit tells the saga of Yuichi, whose ancestor was Miyamoto Usagi, protagonist of the comic book series. The little bunny, like any young anime boy, has a dream of becoming a great samurai and protect his village.
2 Likes
I’m a big fan of Stan Sakai’s work. Not impressed with the trailer for Samurai Rabbit. Sidekicks? Cute pets?
PS. The comic Usagi Yojimbo is still ongoing.
1 Like
Set phasers for full nostalgia. We aren’t even thru with s2 yet and they drop this teaser for s3.
4 Likes
Oh, this sounds exciting!
For it’s flaws, I liked Frontier and liked that it was quite inclusive of making First Nations people and Metis people as central actors in colonial era Canada. It seems like he’s using his popularity to highlight stories of indigenous people from their perspective. Good on him!
7 Likes
I do think Trek is mired in nostalgia and wish they’d do something new like Discovery has at least attempted instead of the show being an exception to the norm but having said that…
4 Likes
Agreed.
Although with that said… Strange New Worlds looks like the perfect balance. (and Mount as Pike is perfection)
Edit
Here are all the character promos
7 Likes
Certainly looks fun and i hope it gives me that Trek feeling of excitement that i’m not really getting from Picard and occasionally from Discovery. Not that i’m a Trek purist really (apart from Enterprise seemingly entering an atmos!) but maybe i do have some stubborn biases when it comes to what i want from it, chasing the ideal Trek that’s no longer there. 
1 Like
The first episode of Moon Knight felt promising. The way the protagonist kept finding himself in the aftermath of violent situations he had no memory of participating in was a bit like a superhero take on Memento.
7 Likes
I have to say, Severance is getting really effing dark…
3 Likes
Yep. It certainly is. Are you caught up to current? I am really looking forward to the finale at the end of the week and not looking forward to waiting a year for more
2 Likes
I’ve given up on that inconsistency myself.
-
Kirk’s Enterprise was in low orbit in Tomorrow is Yesterday (tracked by a F104 which has a service ceiling of 50,500 ft)
-
Saru took the Shenzou into a very low orbit in the first episode of Discovery
-
Voyager (which was purposefully designed to land planet side) is bigger by 60+ meters than a Conny but has no problems in atmo
-
Archer’s Enterprise flew in atmo no problem
-
Troi flew the D’s saucer section thru an atmo, stupid ground got in the way
So Pike running his 1701 in an atmo is nothing for me. As long as it doesn’t land I feel canon is maintained. Federation Starships can enter an atmosphere, its just a great strain on energy and engines and shouldn’t be done often. But don’t you dare park it under an ocean.
3 Likes
It was never a hill i was really willing to die on but building the fecking thing on the planet’s surface as per the Abrams reboot was just beyond the pale. I get why they do it for modern Trek, the CG is now more than capable and it looks dramatic, i guess.
2 Likes
I am so happy those films exist in their own little pocket verse and don’t touch my prime timeline.
3 Likes
Original Flavor Pike was not a fun guy, he was a stern and grumpy leader quite a bit like Jason Isaacs’ Captain Lorca
They’re reinventing Kirk for this new show and calling him “Captain Pike,” but the fans seem to like it so whatever 
1 Like
Yes. I am also caught up with AppleTV’s other one, Slow Horses. A great cast in this one.
4 Likes
I’m completely there for Picard. And for the season 3 reunion tour. The stories are interesting and the looking in on someone at his stage of life is refreshing in media; where old people are often assumed to be supporting caricatures. Not even characters.
Loving Discovery and looking forward to Brave New Worlds. And the fun on Below Decks.
Is it exactly the “Trek of Old” - thankfully not. The world changes. TNG wasn’t TOS or DS9 etc themselves. It’s also good to see queer people finally exist in that future.
6 Likes
I don’t think that’s fair seeing is we only saw him one time and that character was going thru some soul searching and trauma. The Pike seen in s2 of Discovery was not that way, was in no way like Lorca and I never got any ‘kirk vibes’ off of him.
I’ve never understood why some fans want it to be exactly like what came before. Trek now having multiple flavors is wonderful. Bring it all on.
6 Likes
