Upgrade your account to a Community Supporter account and remove most of the site ads.
Rocket your D&D 5E and Level Up: Advanced 5E games into space! Alpha Star Magazine Is Launching... Right Now!

Reply to thread

Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mark" data-source="post: 900618" data-attributes="member: 5">Welcome home.  Clean place, that Canada, innit it?  Beautiful country. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />I'd like some more info on what you think could have been geared toward an adult audience.  Just curious... <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />Budget.  I like that they are trying to be spectacular but there are certain things they should avoid when the budget won't let them carry it off, IMO.That was nice.  They need to do more of that but, again, budget may be interfering with the prospect of it.Back to budget again.  No money for enough extras to truly show a huge catastrophe with many, many casualties.  One alternative is stock footage from other disasters but I do not think that would go over very well.Didn't bother me all that much.  I'm glad they scrambled it or it would have been even more campy.  Let's not forget how seriously campy most of TOS actually was... <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />Again, budget.  They do what they can with models and have no money for the kind of CGI required to satisfy an audience used to seeing top-notch CGI in present day films.  Not much they can do about that except avoid trying to do the spectacular scenes with a budget that only allows for the semi-spectacular.  I'm glad, I guess, that they give us a taste rather than not try at all. *shrug*Gotta clean things up.  I'm still waiting for the time when they can get a loot at this guy from the future and leave a time capsule with his name and address.  Then we can watch a scene where he's gloating to Archer and Archer smugly mentions that he's left a note for the future.  At that point a couple of future guards can walk up behind the future guy, take him into custody and wink at Archer saying, "Thanks for the tip, Captain." <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" />It does look like they've pissed him off finally, eh?  I like the scene where he and Trip are drinking and Archer comments on just how many "bad guys" they keep running into.  Seems like he's ready to clean up space no matter the cost and get that Federation started, eh? <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

Verification