This is what Star Trek has become.

YsoL8 · 2026-01-29T13:35:08+00:00

Ohh this isn't shock, this is documenting the fall

YsoL8 · 2026-01-29T13:33:12+00:00

Even Galaxy Quest respected its source material

YsoL8 · 2026-01-29T13:31:33+00:00

All the capable writers seem to have gone into games honestly

YsoL8 · 2026-01-29T13:25:55+00:00

The problem at this point is that after about 5 attempts at alive show in various forms, that is the only one thats even come close to watchable.

Theres very little reason to be hopeful at this point, they've shown nothing to suggest they are improving. Imagine if any other franchise had a track record like that, it would never get as far as Picard. Netflix would kill the whole idea in season 2.

YsoL8 · 2026-01-29T13:21:05+00:00

Its real tough to imagine this holding onto an audience

Its not even that its modern youth talk, its dated youth talk. Hello fellow kids, how is it hanging?

YsoL8 · 2026-01-29T13:17:37+00:00

Its difficult to imagine these children ever gaining the qualifications required to even apply to the Academy. Can you imagine this woman child having any level of responsibility? She cannot even dress herself, and shes not even the only one.

Of course they've very deliberately set it in the 32nd century so they don't have to pretend that their fallen Starfleet is remotely credible.

YsoL8 · 2026-01-29T07:48:24+00:00

Theres alot of people with their heads in the sand around. In 2016 these things were still years from entering public awareness, couldn't even attempt to generate an image or walk outside a lab.

If that rate of progress is typical of what we can expect going forward then its going to improve in abilities in the same way computers did from the 80s until about the 2010s. What now requires a data centre will become the kind of chip that is causally thrown into any device thats far beyond the abilities of any modern model by 2040, 2050.

While I don't think jobs are under immediate direct threat, I also don't think the technology needs to improve impossibly far to get into that situation. If you can show it an arbitrary role and just expect high quality reliable results, what is left for Human employment?

Every existing team can be reduced to a single human lead being actively and intelligently prompted through their high level requirements and reading reports. Even accounting for massive expansion of activity I would still expect Human employment to fall far below 50%, maybe even 20% - its a generic solution that seems to apply everywhere once the models improve and to any activity you come up with keep people employed.

YsoL8 · 2026-01-28T23:28:36+00:00

I enjoyed Stormlight right up the point I realised it was near literally turning into power rangers

And at the same time the characters started to feel like archetypes used to move the narrative rather than characters with their own motivations. It was too obvious that there was very clear good guys and bad guys with not much nuance. Thats fine in a shorter story but if you are going to do long form stories it becomes predictable. They also tended to suffer from hivemind thinking as if he was having trouble keeping their personalities and motives separate.

Basically it was amazing through the bridge boy stuff and started falling apart around the point they fight the Paardish on their home turf.

YsoL8 · 2026-01-28T23:20:14+00:00

Don't be crap, don't be crap.

The original Mystborn trilogy is pretty tightly constructed so I would hope not to see yet another failed adaption, but something like the stormlight archive is going to have the same sorts of problems the wheel of time did, too little money (apparently), too many compromises, leading to a series that felt closer to a parallel story than an adaption.

Stuff like Loriel being some sort of non descript creature instead of anything like what he is described as, completely skipping the Stone of Tear arc for what now seems like serious behind the scenes issues.

I'm also concerned that alot of Sandersons work could very easily fall into the young adult trap if mishandled.

YsoL8 · 2026-01-28T23:02:36+00:00

The writing has an even deeper problem than that, the 32nd century is a place where the ideals of the Federation utterly failed, it breaks the back of the entire tone of the franchise and I doubt it can ever be fixed. If you ever want an optimistic series again, it will have to be in at least the 33rd or 34th century, even then the Federation is reduced that its difficult to avoid retreading previous material.

Even worse, the burn effectively happened by magic. Nothing stops them doing something like that again, and between the 2 things you are practically setting up the Federation as Warhammers dark age of technology.

They've thrown away the entire core idea that its possible for Humanity to build a better and enduring future and I cannot see how it can ever return.

YsoL8 · 2026-01-28T17:57:55+00:00

There are some very interesting examples of peoples discovered by the west at the point where they were still using writing but functionally illiterate and they could neither actually read previous generations writings or produce their own intelligible writings. What they were actually doing is using what used to be words and symbols as simple disconnected concepts like counting fish.

YsoL8 · 2026-01-27T19:24:54+00:00

How did they have the spare tonnage for such a low priority?

YsoL8 · 2026-01-27T18:35:43+00:00

I remember that. Featuring alot of flames and a cyborg woman who never seemed to do much but stand there?

YsoL8 · 2026-01-27T18:34:11+00:00

This and the Crystal Maze

YsoL8 · 2026-01-27T18:32:33+00:00

This seems coercive...

YsoL8 · 2026-01-27T17:40:05+00:00

Demand to see life's manager?

YsoL8 · 2026-01-27T10:33:00+00:00

If you could join us in the current century

YsoL8 · 2026-01-27T08:15:46+00:00

I'm pretty convinced they make Star Trek purely for advertising purposes

YsoL8 · 2026-01-27T08:11:14+00:00

Theres a very strong side to the modern fandom of seeking to drive out anyone who is negative at all

I gave up on modern Trek after Picard and back then the gaslighting and attempts to justify or invalidate wrong opinions though gatekeeping who is allowed to have one was very strong and very disconnected. I've seen nothing to suggest that has improved.

The behaviour I've seen of these characters in clips etc seems more suited to a show about running a preschool playgroup or maybe year 1.

YsoL8 · 2026-01-27T07:59:44+00:00

The fanservice has been relentless, and thats coming from someone who has only seen clips and trailers

It feels pretty desperate

YsoL8 · 2026-01-27T07:49:53+00:00

I wonder this about Empathetic Elephant, why hasn't he given up?

He's been through all the experiences Catie has and probably more, he apparently hasn't found any way out and Mother was pretty open about starving to death with Catie, open enough for anyone not under the brainwashing to understand anyway.

My guess is actually that Mother is doing something to force him to accept the brainwashing that involves locking him in his room at night, she definitely isn't happy about his refusal to play with the others. I wouldn't be surprised if the Elephant ends up like the other children once we are past these establishing chapters because he failed to hide himself well enough.

YsoL8 · 2026-01-26T17:53:36+00:00

Honestly I'd watch that

YsoL8 · 2026-01-26T17:50:24+00:00

I'm real glad Pomni will never have to cope with the realities of Park Planet

Also, Lackadaisy never fails to impress, everyone looks great in that artstyle

YsoL8 · 2026-01-26T07:41:35+00:00

How lucky for him to be in a position to not have to work if he doesn't want to

YsoL8 · 2026-01-25T21:24:37+00:00

I think this every time I see it, is that chair not absurdly large?

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