TV/Movies Megathread

[CountDeMoney]

Seth MacFarlane is coming out with a galaxy quest/Star Trek spoof. Probably gonna be better than the new real Star Trek show

https://youtu.be/Yy9sKeCE8V0

3 jokes endlessly repeated. Pass

You're just a big hater fag.

[Ed Anger]

Seth MacFarlane is coming out with a galaxy quest/Star Trek spoof. Probably gonna be better than the new real Star Trek show

https://youtu.be/Yy9sKeCE8V0

3 jokes endlessly repeated. Pass

You're just a big hater fag.

You have shitty opinions gay boy.

[Eddie Teach]

You endlessly repeat his money pit joke. 

[Ed Anger]

You endlessly repeat his money pit joke. 

QUIET YOU

[Tonitrus]

Seth MacFarlane is coming out with a galaxy quest/Star Trek spoof. Probably gonna be better than the new real Star Trek show

https://youtu.be/Yy9sKeCE8V0

3 jokes endlessly repeated. Pass

It appears to have enough production quality that I'll give it a fair chance.

Though I am not sure a comedy sci-fi series will last long (the trailer definitely oozed "movie", not "series") unless it establishes a good, foundational setting/universe.  I doubt a live-action Futurama (which this is clearly not...at last not comparable in level of sci-fi absurdity) would have any kind of shot.

The "Star Trek ripoff" motif is already palpable...it will need to move beyond that quick.

And also...yet again...1 Baxter Way gets billing as a futuristic building in a sci-fi movie/show...gotta be a record. 

[CountDeMoney]

"A Million Ways To Die In The West" was stupid funny, and this will be too.

[Tonitrus]

Maybe...but would it have worked as a series?

[CountDeMoney]

If it had Stewie, yeah.

[Josquius]

Seth MacFarlane is coming out with a galaxy quest/Star Trek spoof. Probably gonna be better than the new real Star Trek show

https://youtu.be/Yy9sKeCE8V0

3 jokes endlessly repeated. Pass

It appears to have enough production quality that I'll give it a fair chance.

Though I am not sure a comedy sci-fi series will last long (the trailer definitely oozed "movie", not "series") unless it establishes a good, foundational setting/universe.  I doubt a live-action Futurama (which this is clearly not...at last not comparable in level of sci-fi absurdity) would have any kind of shot.

The "Star Trek ripoff" motif is already palpable...it will need to move beyond that quick.

And also...yet again...1 Baxter Way gets billing as a futuristic building in a sci-fi movie/show...gotta be a record. 

Yes. I've seen too many scifi spoof tv series come and last only a single series.
But still, looks cool.

[celedhring]

I'm only drawing the Red Dwarf as spoof space opera that lasted more than a season. Am I right?

[Syt]

Red Dwarf itself is a strange one. While it's clearly a comedy, it's sci-fi aspect was usually a comparatively serious premise for each episode that wouldn't have been amiss in Star Trek, and then the comedy came out of the characters and how they reacted to it.

[celedhring]

Red Dwarf itself is a strange one. While it's clearly a comedy, it's sci-fi aspect was usually a comparatively serious premise for each episode that wouldn't have been amiss in Star Trek, and then the comedy came out of the characters and how they reacted to it.

There are lots of comedies about people reacting in funny ways to serious premises. Not strange at all.

[Tonitrus]

I think Red Dwarf is a rather unique example (that proves the rule?).  And I wonder how successful it would have been if not for the massive American cult following (and it's timing...that same phenomenon arising from Monty Python's fame).  I cannot have been the only geeky follower of obscure Brit comedies on late at night on PBS stations. 

While it looks ok, I don't think this will have the low-budget, daring scrappiness of a Red Dwarf.

[Eddie Teach]

I cannot have been the only geeky follower of obscure Brit comedies on late at night on PBS stations. 

Oh sure, viewership probably hit the double digits at times.

[Josquius]

Ah, checking up Hyperdrive, which was OK, managed 2.

I think one difference Red Dwarf had was that it took a very "Alien"-esque approach to sci-fi. Everything was pretty 'kitchen sink' gritty and used.
Other sci fi comedies tried to go with the Star Trek style smooth and shiny Applesque aesthetic.