r/movies • u/Vanderlyley • 28d ago

News Paramount Posts $286M Fourth Quarter Streaming Loss

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/paramount-fourth-quarter-streaming-1236148263/
10.9k Upvotes

96% Upvoted

1.3k comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

56

u/colddecembersnow 28d ago

Damn. Lower Decks was the best Star Trek since Deep Space Nine in my opinion.

13

u/str8_whiskey 28d ago

I really like stange new worlds also. So I "Churn"  P+

2

u/360_face_palm 27d ago

yeah strange new worlds and lower decks are good, the rest of nu-trek is crap imo

1

u/red__dragon 27d ago

But The Expanse is on Prime :(

1

u/360_face_palm 27d ago

The problem with the expanse show is it's good but they cancelled it before the end so if u want the actual ending you have to read the last 3 books.

1

u/red__dragon 27d ago

I'm an avid fan of the books, and while I get the complaint, I also don't think it's necessary. Books 1-6 tell the story of humanity encountering and growing from a single solar-system civilization to one branching out into the galaxy.

Books 7-9 give a brief glimpse of how dangerous that can be. And as much as I love those books, they don't walk much new ground in terms of science fiction. Most "here there be dragons" sci-fi stories are based around that premise, but what the first 2/3s of the Expanse did is still pretty unexplored. It's a (mostly) hard sci-fi story of tech, grit, and human ego and how that can advance or stagnate a civilization within one ecosystem, one without any real frontiers left to conquer, and there are fewer space opera stories without frontiers.

2

u/greyfoxv1 27d ago

Ronald D Moore went on to make For All Mankind on Apple TV. It's worth your time since you liked his work in DS9.