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I don't believe anyone who was involved with the production, nor anyone who has actually watched the show, has ever referred to it as a Star Trek parody. Mostly I think that label got applied by people who only saw the commercial teasers and who don't really know what parody is. Basically, your expectations were falsely set by the quick-to-judge and the ignorant.

They are actors in a vaudevillian tradition. Serious dramatic/comedic talent they are not.

They are actors in a vaudevillian tradition. Serious dramatic/comedic talent they are not.

They are actors in a vaudevillian tradition. Serious dramatic/comedic talent they are not.

They are actors in a vaudevillian tradition. Serious dramatic/comedic talent they are not.

Hugh Jackman is too tall to be Wolverine.
 
And Mark Hamill is a little short for a stormtrooper.

Maybe this is Quark: The Next Generation

As a Supergirl fan, the only date of interest to me is Oct 9. The others, meh.

As a Supergirl fan, the only date of interest to me is Oct 9. The others, meh.

That's pretty much how I've felt about 99% of the comedy series made in the last 20 years.

How many episodes are the critics basing their reviews on? Just the pilot? Or did they get to see more at some press screening?
 
The pilot wasn't astounding, but it wasn't bad either. I think the people who are tearing it apart are mostly people who don't like it because they don't like Seth MacFarland and don't like his style of humor to begin with, and they can't (or don't want to) imagine the possibility that it will improve over time.
 
I'm willing to give it a few episodes to see what direction it will go. If it stays the same (as the pilot) or gets worse, then it will surely die a pretty quick death. However, if it gets better, then we could end up with a proverbial Galaxy Quest: the Series on our hands.

Warburton had the physical size of The Tick, whereas the new guy doesn't. But Warburton's Tick seemed to trade in the goofiness of the comic for pure camp. The old Tick cartoon was a better adaptation, IMO, than either of the live-action adaptations.

Warburton had the physical size of The Tick, whereas the new guy doesn't. But Warburton's Tick seemed to trade in the goofiness of the comic for pure camp. The old Tick cartoon was a better adaptation, IMO, than either of the live-action adaptations.

I admit, the Wright Brothers were the first thing I thought of when I saw the title.  And there was a scene at the end when Commander Grayson mentioned a ship called the USS Chanute.  Given that, it's reasonable to assume there are ships named the Bleriot, the Lilienthal, the Curtiss, and the Beachey--to name but a few. 
 
But not the Langley.  That one crashed on takeoff.  Twice.
 
 
 
I liked it as well.  I laughed, I cheered, I enjoyed it.  The scene where Captain Mercer and Cmdr. Grayson were arguing and the entire bridge crew could hear it through the bulkhead was especially funny.  In a way the show reminds me of Doug Curtis's SpaceHack comic series, which appeared in Knights Of The Dinner Table a few years ago--enjoyable as both parody and space adventure.
 
Congratulations, Mr. MacFarlane--you made a show I actually like.  I will continue to watch.

I've always thought that Alfred and Bullock are the best two things about the show. 

Thank goodness that Supergirl provides us with an alternative.

Snyder is an accomplished visualist, there's no denying that. But his storytelling acumen is questionable. Even when he's adapting very good material.

Snyder is an accomplished visualist, there's no denying that. But his storytelling acumen is questionable. Even when he's adapting very good material.

When you hear there's going to be a series about The Immortal Iron Fist, you don't expect to get The Ward Meachum Story. Marvel simply told the wrong story. Period. The fact that it had a very good actor playing (what should have been) a relatively minor secondary role does not change that one bit.

When you hear there's going to be a series about The Immortal Iron Fist, you don't expect to get The Ward Meachum Story. Marvel simply told the wrong story. Period. The fact that it had a very good actor playing (what should have been) a relatively minor secondary role does not change that one bit.

Agreed.
 
Danny's story of how he earned the title of "Immortal Iron Fist" should have been what the first 2/3rds of the first season was all about. It should have taken place entirely in Kun Lun, where we got to see the culture and customs there. It would have been an opportunity for Iron Fist to establish its own unique feel as a series, steeped in Eastern mysticism and high-flying martial arts action. It should have been a cross between Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and Into the Badlands (i.e., lots of fantasy elements, but with modern fighting choreography instead of traditional wushu wirework). It could have been revealed that Madam Gao had been captured and imprisoned there, and that her escape puts Danny in pursuit of her, and that's how he ends up in NYC. Then the third act of the season would be Danny discovering how The Hand has infiltrated NYC and the threat they represent.
 
But most importantly, while Danny may new to the superhero game, and be a fish out of water in terms of fitting into NYC, especially after 15 years of isolation and indoctrination into a way of life utterly foreign to modern Americans, there's no excuse for him not demonstrating the degree of fighting prowess necessary to defeat Shou Lao the Undying. And I just don't buy that he would still be so utterly torn up emotionally and psychologically after having 15 years to get his s**t together under the tutelage and training of Kun Lun's masters.

Currently watching this on Funimation and finding it thoroughly entertaining:
 

We didn't recognize clerics as adhering very closely to any particular template. The closest thing we could come up with were crusading knights like the Templars. I don't think that image was too far off from what Gygax imagined them to be. There's enough congruency there to place clerics firmly within the traditions of western European history and folklore (and the modern fantasy literature inspired by it). Just like there's enough in the Monk class description to firmly place it within the traditions of Asian fighting monks like the Shaolin, rather than those of western mendicant orders like the Fransiscans.
 
All the kids I played with in high school (back in the early 80s) had a working familiarity with the historical and literary inspirations for most of what we found in AD&D. You didn't need a Ph.D in Western Civilization, East Asian Culture, or Medieval Literature to get this stuff.

When she says "people" she must be referring to hardcore comics nerds. Because apart from them, nobody knows who Carol Danvers/Captain Marvel is.

When she says "people" she must be referring to hardcore comics nerds. Because apart from them, nobody knows who Carol Danvers/Captain Marvel is.