Comment on Rod Roddenberry On How New Paramount Wants “To Do Right By Star Trek”
AnchoriteMagus@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Best thing he can do for the future of Trek is make sure Kurzmann and anyone who sat with him at the lunch table never get their pens near it again.
Let me get this straight, Paramount was recently purchased by the Ellisons yet you feel the greatest threat to Star Trek is… Alex Kurtzman? Wait wait, let me guess, you don’t like how political Star Trek suddenly became this past decade?
It’s always the same with you. Here is an interesting – perhaps shocking – fact: People can dislike both the Ellison takeover and the Alex Kurtzman creative era. There’s no sort of contradiction here. I don’t like Kurtzman because the Star Trek he was involved in was mostly trash, in my opinion. That doesn’t mean that I am happy about MAGA infiltration at Paramount, and I assume that it is the same for the other commenter.
I was mod of /r/StarTrek for a decade and I have yet to see a single situation where a vague “bad writing” complaint wasn’t serving as cover for a (let’s just say) less socially acceptable criticism.
If you’re being honest about your feelings then my advice to you is be more significantly concrete with exactly what it is you are criticizing about Kurtzman, or people are going to assume you’re obfuscating your true feelings.
agentTeiko@piefed.social 1 day ago
Its almost like the two are related Kurtzman drove it in to the ground due to bad writing and focus on action set pieces vs progressive normalization storytelling. So Ellison had the chance to buy it.
Alex Kurtzman single-handedly drove the entire Paramount corporation into the ground, keeping his job the entire time, personally enabling Skydance to purchase the entire thing for the low price of $8 billion?
This to you is a sensible theory, and not mind-numbingly stupid?
AnchoriteMagus@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Star Trek was always political, internet ragebaiter.
Kurzmann is a shit writer who writes shit plots with holes so big you could drive a Vor’Cha class cruiser through them.