| ST: New Voyages - To Serve All My Days - trailer available [message #242284] |
So, 26 März 2006 05:45 |
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Hmmm. Nobody posted any comments on this!
http://www.startreknewvoyages.com/800/episodes.php
"Star Trek: New Voyages. Walter Koenig in D.C. Fontana's 'To Serve All My
Days'.
Coming Summer 2006"
Did everyone miss this? Looks to be good!! D.C. Fontana and Koenig, back
"together"? Oooh.
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| Re: New Voyages - To Serve All My Days - trailer available [message #242285 ] |
So, 26 März 2006 06:52 |
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Snake Boldly typed:
> Hmmm. Nobody posted any comments on this!
>
> http://www.startreknewvoyages.com/800/episodes.php
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> "Star Trek: New Voyages. Walter Koenig in D.C. Fontana's 'To Serve
> All My Days'.
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> Coming Summer 2006"
>
> Did everyone miss this? Looks to be good!! D.C. Fontana and
> Koenig,
> back "together"? Oooh.
Well the FX on writing of New Voyages is pretty good but the acting of
the main cast pretty rough. Over all I give them an A for effort.
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Dale
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| Re: New Voyages - To Serve All My Days - trailer available [message #242292 ] |
So, 26 März 2006 10:21 |
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"Night Spirit" <hipdale2 [at] earthlink.net> wrote in message
news:H6pVf.6964$x94.3517 [at] newsread1.news.pas.earthlink.net...
> Well the FX on writing of New Voyages is pretty good but the acting of the
> main cast pretty rough. Over all I give them an A for effort.
I think that's a pretty fair assessment, and just "pretty fair" of you to
note and say, as well. I guess they are, when all said and done, only
"amateur" fans and not real (that is, paid) actors AFAIK.
Still, better acting (IMHO) than ST:Hidden Frontier (very usually quite
stiff and canned)
But the second episode of Exeter, the segments currently available, seem to
show better acting than both previously noted.
High hopes for "To Serve..." though. Hopefully Koenig and Fontana bring a
new level of ability to everyone. "Center Seat" did seem to show a bit
better acting from some of the cast.
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| Re: New Voyages - To Serve All My Days - trailer available [message #242333 ] |
Mo, 27 März 2006 21:07 |
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Snake wrote:
> Hmmm. Nobody posted any comments on this!
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> http://www.startreknewvoyages.com/800/episodes.php
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> "Star Trek: New Voyages. Walter Koenig in D.C. Fontana's 'To Serve
> All My Days'.
>
> Coming Summer 2006"
>
> Did everyone miss this? Looks to be good!! D.C. Fontana and Koenig,
> back "together"? Oooh.
Looks interesting.
Ian
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| Re: New Voyages - To Serve All My Days - trailer available [message #243223 ] |
Mi, 29 März 2006 23:37 |
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Snake wrote:
> Hmmm. Nobody posted any comments on this!
>
> http://www.startreknewvoyages.com/800/episodes.php
>
> "Star Trek: New Voyages. Walter Koenig in D.C. Fontana's 'To Serve
> All My Days'.
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> Coming Summer 2006"
>
> Did everyone miss this? Looks to be good!! D.C. Fontana and Koenig,
> back "together"? Oooh.
I just watched what's available of Exeter's new episode and I think they've
got right what New Voyages haven't. New Voyages has the smorgasbord of CGI
and so forth, but both episodes so far have looked "wrong" and I've been
trying to put my finger on why. It's not really the acting, for instance.
Even badly acted professional film/TV looks fundamentally different to
amateur stuff. I don't have any experience in TV or film (but I did work in
theatre lighting professionally for a number of years) and have been kind of
suspecting it's down to something like that. I think IMHO Exeter's
Tressaurian Intersection has proven the case to me that it is indeed the
production.
Exeter's director seems to me to have got the direction, editing and
lighting right. Even when the acting wavered somewhat (tho they are doing a
reasonable job for amateurs) it was easy to feel I was watching a normal TV
show. The thing looks like it's edited together properly, there are nice
little tracking shots and low level shots and tilted cameras and nicely
timed reaction shots and so on. New Voyages looks stilted by comparison,
even if it has the "better" sfx. The lighting is certainly IMV massively
better; note that nice pink lighting in the briefing room scene. NV looks
flat, and even murky.
It'll be interesting to see whether NV raises the bar relatively with this
first show with a professional script and star. It looks to be a sad story
(I found an article with a pretty-much spoiler about the ending) so that's
going to be interesting in a fan production after the first two episodes
being pretty much straightforward fanwank ("In Harms Way" had some nice
bits but they flung in the kitchen sink plotwise and it fell apart as a
result IMHO). Mind you, with Takei and Whitney signed up for the next
episode, it may descend into a series of ever diminishing excuses for aged
cast members :D
Anyway, until To Serve All My Days arrives, I think Exeter has the edge
right now. Simply more enjoyable to watch (and I say this as someone who
thought their first episode was awful, which is why it's taken me so long to
download this one). Hope they can get the rest of it out the door soon; I'm
dying to know what happens next hehe.
Would be nice if both teams could speed up production and a real "contest"
develop with each side raising the bar with each episode. With things
significantly improving with each episode, we won't need any more Paramount
Trek. To be honest, I've always just wanted more bright colours/original
Enterprise/miniskirt TOS anyway :)
Oh yes, also liked Exeter's subtlish reference to The Doomsday Machine when
they find the Kongo's engineering section- and that other than that despite
being a fan production the thing doesn't descend into endless references to
classic episodes, quotes, etc, etc as NV has so far.
Also, is it a first to see a landing party beam down in their usual
unsuitable uniforms to find it's raining?
Ian
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