Well, I wouldn't exactly state that Beverly and Gates were center stage...her son is Center stage not Beverly. She's still a supporting character in the background, that's not changed. You'd be annoyed. Both Troi and Beverly are kind of sidelined. The top female roles go to a new character played by Michelle Hurd since Picard S1 and Jeri Ryan's Seven of Nine. Also, we have LaForge's niece flying the ship.
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So that's Nick Offerman? I get him confused with Michael Shannon - they look alike to me. Thanks for the gentle correction.
I apparently have watched a far broader spectrum of television than most people have. Because I have seen the gay male/middle-aged romance. (Hello Modern Family!) It's hardly as rare as everyone seems to think it is. You guys need to watch more television. Although, I will admit that you don't tend to see it in zombie dystopian television series or movies.
And, I'm thinking you might like Station Eleven - it kind of subverts the entire dystopian pandemic trope. It's an interesting narrative style, and episode 3 reminded me a lot of it. It's not like any of the others. Of course there are no zombie menace in Station Eleven, so that helps. The only menace are crazy humans, and they aren't really that big of one.
Outside of those two things, we're more or less in agreement. Seen one zombie television show or movie, you've seen them all. Which is why they tend to be a hard pass for me. I don't stick around long - I get bored, also tired of jumping away from the zombies. The was one British Zombie Show that I can't remember the name of, where people went to Zombie therapy which was kind of interesting.
I didn't stay with The Walking Dead much longer than you did. Made it roughly to the first portion of S3 and gave up. (I could figure out where it was going and was no longer interested. Beergoodfoamy and I stopped around the same time, he'd talked me into trying it, and then we both gave up in S3.)
Post-apocalyptic survival TV series are simply not my thing; there are just so many spins you can put on the material. The main characters form a familial bond. They evade various mutations of the infected undead. They encounter fascistic mini-regimes. Lather, rinse, repeat.
Yup, pretty much.
Station Eleven kind of side-steps this a bit. So I do recommend checking it out if you ever get the chance. It's only 10 or 13 episodes. Really short. And one season.
But Station Eleven is the only one that side-steps it. Also I don't think it had any LGBTA romances. Mainly focused on parent/child relationships.
The Last of Us so far is following the trope fairly closely. Episode 3 kind of steps away from it for an intermission of sorts, but I wouldn't say that it completely does.
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Re: The Last of Us; The Dancing Doctor
Date: 2023-03-07 02:32 am (UTC)**
So that's Nick Offerman? I get him confused with Michael Shannon - they look alike to me. Thanks for the gentle correction.
I apparently have watched a far broader spectrum of television than most people have. Because I have seen the gay male/middle-aged romance. (Hello Modern Family!) It's hardly as rare as everyone seems to think it is. You guys need to watch more television. Although, I will admit that you don't tend to see it in zombie dystopian television series or movies.
And, I'm thinking you might like Station Eleven - it kind of subverts the entire dystopian pandemic trope. It's an interesting narrative style, and episode 3 reminded me a lot of it. It's not like any of the others. Of course there are no zombie menace in Station Eleven, so that helps. The only menace are crazy humans, and they aren't really that big of one.
Outside of those two things, we're more or less in agreement. Seen one zombie television show or movie, you've seen them all. Which is why they tend to be a hard pass for me. I don't stick around long - I get bored, also tired of jumping away from the zombies. The was one British Zombie Show that I can't remember the name of, where people went to Zombie therapy which was kind of interesting.
I didn't stay with The Walking Dead much longer than you did. Made it roughly to the first portion of S3 and gave up. (I could figure out where it was going and was no longer interested. Beergoodfoamy and I stopped around the same time, he'd talked me into trying it, and then we both gave up in S3.)
Post-apocalyptic survival TV series are simply not my thing; there are just so many spins you can put on the material. The main characters form a familial bond. They evade various mutations of the infected undead. They encounter fascistic mini-regimes. Lather, rinse, repeat.
Yup, pretty much.
Station Eleven kind of side-steps this a bit. So I do recommend checking it out if you ever get the chance. It's only 10 or 13 episodes. Really short. And one season.
But Station Eleven is the only one that side-steps it. Also I don't think it had any LGBTA romances. Mainly focused on parent/child relationships.
The Last of Us so far is following the trope fairly closely. Episode 3 kind of steps away from it for an intermission of sorts, but I wouldn't say that it completely does.