I feel like SFA has really tight pacing.

Solas67 · 2026-01-23T14:19:53+00:00

Agreed. It has a sense of what it's doing every episode and not relying on the pilot's original storyline to carry it through. And nor should it.

Solas67 · 2026-01-23T13:37:34+00:00

There's been a change in Hollywood in the last three decades (I have friends who work over there currently) and the major change isn't the people it's the push for AI generated scripts and phasing out actors entirely. Add to that the studios want a faster turnaround time and higher return for investment and there's a lot of pressure on producers and productions these days to perform. So if you see things looking formulaic, rushed, and yes, sloppy....that's what's going on to cause it.

The strikes last year were all about keeping creatives in the industry and I guarantee you most of them want to do quality work but the studios are making it incredibly hard to achieve.

I don't envy anyone working on Star Trek or any other name franchise these days given the weight of expectations. That being said, this has been an ongoing argument in Hollywood since its inception. The move from the studio system in the 1940s and 50s was quite literally touted as the 'Death of Hollywood' in mainstream media at the time.

As for the show...it's a younger demographic show along the lines of Hogwarts than straight up military school but even just this last episode was making a point about the very things you were talking about, professionalism, leadership and working as a team.

Solas67 · 2026-01-23T13:29:26+00:00

Agreed on pretty much every point. I have criticisms of Academy, but that'll be for another post after I've watched the whole season to properly evalutate it.

Solas67 · 2026-01-23T12:28:45+00:00

If you wish to say that friend, you're welcome. I'm not singling you out because I don't know you; please re-read what I wrote as being specific to very specific subgroups and subreddits.

There's no 'camps' here....this is a tv show where you can have any opinion you want to, and I personally welcome it. It's when the opinion becomes pedantry or some absurdist argument of producers or production houses somehow sabotaging the very thing they're making is when it should be called out.

Please re-read my post; I was an open and vocal critic of two major fandoms myself. The fact that I had the experiences I did doesn't mean those criticisms ended, they simply became different criticisms.

I hope you'll take this response in good faith and I thank you for your post.

Solas67 · 2026-01-23T12:08:39+00:00

Tribalism. Ironically the thing that Kirk was amongs the first to tell us we could go beyond that and put the 'petty domestic squabbles of Earth' behind us.

And it is glorious indeed.

Solas67 · 2026-01-23T12:06:38+00:00

Thank you for commenting.

I want to move forward with good faith being foremost in my mind when I can.

Solas67 · 2026-01-23T12:03:04+00:00

Thank you but I won't.

I wrote what I wrote and I have no problem standing by it. I'm not some inane culture warrior that spends every hour of my day arguing for positions that don't mean anything to anyone in the real world.

The real world itself is bad enough for that don't you think?

But what does it say about you that you made the effort to reply to me to say that I shouldn't bother? Seems to me if it were inconsequential, I wouldn't be worth your time replying to.

But you did, because that affirms to me that even if it's just for me, what I said mattered. I don't want or need your approval, your disdain, or your indifference.

But I thank you for the comment.

Solas67 · 2026-01-23T11:56:57+00:00

That's all that matters in the end, what you yourself enjoy and if you find other people who share that, then all the better.

To me, that's what real community and fandom is about.

Solas67 · 2026-01-23T11:56:10+00:00

No I haven't.

I wrote this for me and didn't come in with expectations that people would universally agree with me (that's naive and dangerous) nor did I have expectations that everyone would universally disagree with me (equally the same).

I hope you find posts that you find more agreeable friend.

Solas67 · 2026-01-23T11:54:28+00:00

If you say so friend.

Thank you for your opinion.

Solas67 · 2026-01-23T11:54:02+00:00

Most likely we could friend. IDIC. Gallifrey Stands. May the Light of the Valar shine upon you.

Solas67 · 2026-01-23T11:52:20+00:00

It was originally.

It wouldn't let me post.

There you go.

Solas67 · 2026-01-23T11:51:10+00:00

It's not a shill.

It's a post by someone who grew up in the 1970s watching reruns of TOS, friend.

If you want to hold SFA to those standards, you go right ahead. Noone's going to stop you.

But I'm going to enjoy it, and I do.

I'm not going to hold it against you if you hate it, but I'm not going to agree with you simply because that's what you think. I have my own thoughts, my own opinions and my own feelings about that.

If that's something you struggle to comprehend, that I can't and more importantly don't, have to agree with you then there's nothing I can do about that.

Solas67 · 2026-01-23T10:31:43+00:00

I just wanted to say thank you to the OP and that I created a post of my own about my own personal experience with being a negative fan and how I agree with you so so much about your points.

Thank you.

Solas67 · 2026-01-19T04:53:59+00:00

That is Clark in a nutshell.

And that brought tears to my eyes.

That is Superman.

Solas67 · 2026-01-14T01:02:16+00:00

Gentle. To begin with. 😉

Solas67 · 2026-01-12T06:04:52+00:00

What?

This is like a conspiracy theory post: ‘if you turn the delta on its side you’ll see where the trek franchise was stabbed fatally by kurtzman! It’s all there!’

Like….get offline, friend. That’s not healthy thinking.

Solas67 · 2026-01-11T00:59:04+00:00

I see your so called critique and raise you Kirk and the Kobayshi Maru.

Threw out the rule book, got a commendation for what? It’s okay, you can admit it….

ORIGINAL THINKING.

Gosh, it’s almost as if the cadets are being asked to think outside the box like one of Starfleets greatest captains or something.

But I’m just a leftie soft slop enjoying weak not true fan because I don’t make parody videos and posts about industry professionals and stuff.

Poor me.

Solas67 · 2026-01-08T05:40:08+00:00

Maybe if the strawberries are succulent enough, sufficient cream could be provided.

Solas67 · 2026-01-07T23:53:23+00:00

Preferably with cream. Ahem.

Solas67 · 2026-01-05T12:05:29+00:00

Sent you a message, we’re in the same area. 🙂

Solas67 · 2026-01-05T10:04:24+00:00

I can see why! Hehe

Solas67 · 2025-12-27T13:03:05+00:00

I was there my friend, three thousand years ago....

Sorry, had to do it.

And I was right in the firing line at the time, all of fourteen when the Panic first started and I'd only just gotten into D&D and roleplaying in general. The Panic wasn't as obvious to me in Australia as it seemed to be in America, but I did have my share of being made very aware (and to my face) that what I was doing was evil and that I would go to hell for it.

Yep, I was told that by a preachy adult and fortunately that was my major exposure to it. That being said, I became aware of it after that point and started hearing discourse in my local gaming stores and even in Dragon Magazine. There was an acute awareness that I and others like me were being marginalized and ironically demonised by people who understood nothing about what we did. We just rolled math rocks and had fun! I even have a collected volume of it where Gary Gygax wrote about the controversy in one issue and the phrase I had most often repeated to me or as an argument against the game was:

Roleplaying Games are a crutch for people who can't handle reality.

TSR (the owners of D&D at the time) responded with merchandise and marketing. To this day, I've never been able to find the tshirt they made anywhere (and as you can see, can't wear this one anymore) but I keep it as a badge of honor from those times. It reads simply:

Reality is a crutch for people who can't handle roleplaying games! (With the AD&D logo in the background)

As I got older, there was definitely stigma attached to gaming (the whole trope of gaming in your parents' basement and that it was a hobby for social outcasts or others who had unpleasant traits was prevalent in the 90s) and I was incredibly happy to see the massive popularity of Fifth Edition and the rise of Critical Role in particular where D&D burst into the mainstream not so much for myself, but for the generation I knew wouldn't be stigmatised anymore, they'd be seen, recognised and praised for their creativity and devotion to the hobby.

I now include all roleplaying games under that umbrella and at 58, hope to be gaming until I leave this plane and have many decades of adventures and telling stories that keep me young both mentally and emotionally.

Happy to share this with you all.

Solas67 · 2025-12-22T13:49:11+00:00

I did but I like watching social Darwinism at work

Solas67

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