I usually love bad humour. But these Very Short Treks are just terrible.
I do like the TAS animation style though. And that the actual actors are voicing the characters is great too. Everything else ... not so much. Bummer. π
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This one is very dumb (and I expect the others will be as well), but it worked a lot better for me than the first one.
On brand for me to like this when everyone doesn't, I guess. Everyones complaints are valid though. These are rough. However this dry/brutal type of humor is closer to my personal brand of humor than anything else. Last weeks was awful but this I at least laughed a few times. SNW Enterprise looks beautiful in TAS animation style. The Discovery clip just confused me. It's from the second episode of Season 1 but Saru is wearing his uniform from Season 4 of Discovery. I just... don't get it. That seems like such an insanely weird decision to make.
Totally see why people don't like this. I did. However it does feel like a fanmade shock humor video. The fact this is official is a little odd.
Itβs from the second episode of Season 1 but Saru is wearing his uniform from Season 4 of Discovery.
I'm pretty sure it's a nod to TAS and other cartoons of the era having inexplicable errors when it comes to character models and animation.
Would make sense with Uhuras uniform too I guess
That seems like such an insanely weird decision to make.
It could have also been a mistake. The "Ephraim and Dot" Short Trek made a similar continuity booboo when they gave the TOS-era Enterprise the "NCC 1701-A" naval construction code.
I mean yes, it's dumb, but I didn't really go into these expecting they'd be particularly clever or ground-breaking. This one was silly and I had fun, I look forward to the rest of them.
That was just plain terrible. The first one was offensive, and this one was lame. The next I expect to be both.
This episode reminded me of what Mel Brooks purportedly said: "Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open manhole and die."
Also, Spork was one of the Vulcan proper names submitted by Bob Justman to Gene Roddenberry during the show's production: https://news.lettersofnote.com/p/star-trek-planet-vulcan-proper-names
These are just horrible. Attempts at dry humor without being smart. I feel embarrassed for the writers.
I know it is low budget but does the humour have to be so Family Guy?
That is an insult to Family Guy and to The Orville.
So far I'm pretty disappointed with these 'very short treks'. I really enjoyed Short Treks and was hoping these would be as good.
Well, that's oh for two. I don't think this instalment was quite as rough as the first, but it also didn't have Pete Holmes, so it gets points for that alone.
For whatever reason I assumed each of the VSTs would be done by different studios, but this is the same team that worked on the first. I don't have high hopes for the rest.
I understood that the EP/Showrunner is the same for all, and the writer of the first one. So, he set the tone. Sigh.
A am still hopeful for βHolograms all the way downβ as it has Aaron Waltke as the writer credited.
I think this one is better than the last one, but that's a very low bar to clear. The animation is done well in TAS style. This episode is like a Saturday Night Live skit that falls flat. Not innovative, just tepid. I've now learned to temper my expectations for the rest of the Very Short Treks.
These make Picard look like a masterpiece
I suspect each episode will have different styles of humor as a form of experimentation to see what sticks to the wall.
One might therefore hope that there might be one in the set that I donβt find so unbearably cringey that I might want to watch it more than once.