keithbevins

Star Trek Lower Decks is up there as one of the best television series to hit screens as an animated adult television series.

There were times the series got silly. That's fine. The silly element meets the crazy spin cycles that the Original Series tossed out weekly. The Next Generation took itself too seriously. DS9 gave us the reality check Trek needed. DS9 showed us how humans could screw up a good thing. Voyager was fun; no one took it seriously. For good reasons. My favourite Trek was DS9. Now it's Lower Decks.

Lower decks really captures the spirit of classic Trek. I love it. Yes it's silly at times. Yet the character development makes it a better Trek series than either of it's two contemporaries. That's something. Star Trek Discovery was a disaster. New Worlds is working the old themes; but not with the same sort of spice that Lower Decks injects into the Trek myths.

Pickard tried to move between serious and silly like coin flips. That just made that Trek... easy to forget. I can't remember a scene outside of the inter dimensional robot-centipedes coming out of... yet another dimensional rift in the space time fabric that separates our dimensions.

The multiverse thing is getting out of hand and it's a distraction from simply following accepted fandom expectations. We don't need to see something new and shocking. Sometimes we just want to feel and see the old story lines open up into more detailed experiences.

Someone should push to bring Lower Decks back to life for Trek's sanity sake.

The first episode played out like a two an a half-hour movie. I wanted more.

The second episode isn't as impact-full; but it twists the story in interesting ways. I wanted more after watching that episode also.

I'm confident in saying that this TV show is complicated. It gets more complicated. If you're a fan of. Niccolo Machiavelli you'll enjoy this entertainment. It's like an all dressed greasy pizza with too much of everything. It's the kind of entertainment where you switch from beer to water to make sure you don't miss details.

The one draw back I have... why dive into making the houses from the novels have so much influence in this television show? Why house Harkonnen and Atreides have to be significantly involved in pointless. I'd have preferred that the two houses were simply part of the chattels on on the side lines being held there to encourage a second and third season.

Too late now. If you screw up the Dune mythology in the first season it's likely the series will fail. After what people did to the Tolkien vision. I hope that doesn't happen.

That's part of the creativity crisis in Hollywood and all over. If the next few episodes are disastrous I'll be surprised. Clearly the writers behind this greasy pizza flick are thinking and trying to make it all complicated.

I've loving it so far.

I watched the first episode twice. I've watched the second episode once. I'll re-watch that one again also.

I'd just wish Apple dumped the whole first season all at once. So far it's like an epic movie the viewer might want to feast upon.

I have an ex-wife who will watch this show with a notebook to forensically work to find weak points in the plot and presentation. I bet she's working over-time to try to dissect and roll this show over. Assuming she's watching it. She's a big fan of "For All Mankind."

She's been waiting for this type of TV show for twenty years. I'd bet she's loving it. She hated the later three seasons of Game of Thrones. She's is a big fan of House of Cards with Kevin Spacey. She loves Kevin Spacey.

If you like House of Cards you might like Dune Prophesy.

Enjoy!

The TV show is cursed by a need to use violence to deliver excitement and drama.

Slow Horses has characters which are unmet in entertainment delivery opportunity since Barney Miller. The characters are special. Or they were.

Slow Horses is like.... Barney Miller on steroids without enough ammunition to deliver a high enough body count to score better viewer ratings.

It's too bad. Slow Horses has certainly inspired me to "not" read the book. I have to assume the book is violence oriented.

Oh well. The whole sorting garbage start added enough of an element of momentary realism to trap me. Then I had to wonder if I was watching Band of Brothers or a really warped version of Get Smart.

It's too bad Slow Horses devolves from a higher plane of writing into shoot outs. Have we lost our ability as an audience to process drama in the details?

There is just too much violence in entertainment now. Slow Horses best saving grace is it's characters. The characters details are too often over shadowed by the violence. That's a loss. But the show still has it's characters. It's just hard to keep attention focused upon to the details that inspire us to feel attached to these.... people. Thanks to the acting and the subtle character development; the show is still entertaining even with the over use of violence.

I'll watch the show up until it ends or it becomes unwatchable.

Someone will write, then produce, a better version of this television show and it will be much more fun without too much violence.