I'm not a NG fan but I never said it wasn't Star Trek. Nor did I say that about the other Star Trek series, well up until the streaming series. Star Trek at its core was an optimistic series about the future and working together to solve problems not a dystopian future where everyone was out for their own interest.
Just to clarify, Solium: I did not claim you said any of what I described about Star Trek fans, I made a point of saying various, some, etc. But the point is accurate whether every instance applies to you or not.
Also, the new Trek shows are still optimistic if less utopian, certainly not the dystopian trend so common these days. Just harder fought and more ambiguous - which is when hope is needed most, if you ask me.
(And I'm not saying they're better by any means, just that they share the same Trek DNA as all the properties have.)
PS Andor is Star Wars! I'm gonna make a bumper sticker, and I didn't even much like the show!
NP! I didn't think you were speaking directly to me. I was just trying to clarify my view of the "IP" as a whole.
Andor is highly reviewed and it is a good show, by any metric. It may not be your cup of tea, it is, for certain, not kiddie Lucas Star Wars, at all. As Shiffy said, no light sabers, no real space battles, no storm troopers, only one kind-of cute robot. It has quite a bit less action than most Star Wars, and it is almost entirely planet bound, and I think that also throws people off.
I like all of that, especially seeing behind the curtain of the Empire, which was really intriguing, but the biggest issue I had was the length of the series. I mentioned this before, maybe not here, but elsewhere, but the script was the biggest problem. There was just so much filler. So much wasted time. IMO, Andor didn't need to be 12 episodes long. All of this could have been told in 6. A lot of these Star Wars shows could be much, MUCH shorter as well. I mean, did we really need to watch what's his face eating space fruit loops every morning while his mother bitched him out constantly?
Having said that, the show was extremely well directed, it looked great, the cinematography was superb, and the acting was top-notch. Unfortunately, the script... more so the pacing of the series.... really let it down. The script needed a few more passes to tighten it all up. If it had done that, I might have liked it as much as some of you here who proclaim it to be the best thing since Empire. Personally, I think The Force Awakens, Rogue One and Mando Season 1 are near the greatness of the OT. Andor tried, and a lot of it was great but I was rather bored with about half of the show, which was a shame because when it was good, it was REALLY good!
-Erik-
PS - The score was awful!
Hi Erik, I hope you are well, the cereal guy and his mom, all filler, agreed. A few moments with Cereral boy where he realizes that he has no idea what he is into, are worthy. But we cannot get rid of Cereal Boy, because Yavar's better half likes that guy. Bless you for praising Force Awakens (somewhat reviled, barely creative, but.. darn, so well made, excellent every time I see it) And Rogue One, (yeah, not perfect, but wow, really something more real and well made.)
Thirty-one years later, I finally heard the Varèse Sarabande CD Club mini-release that we all made of in 1992, the ultra-obscure TV movie score, Those Secrets by Thomas Newman—and it’s great! Thanks Varèse!
I know I'm the one who redirected this conversation into one about Star Trek, but I rest my case. Not that its going to change minds or influence people. Though I stand by it.
Some real gems on this list and some good prices. I am sure some will sell fast.
There are 4 copies of the Star Trek TOS box available just shy of $800.
Lots of other really great priced items that should sell fast (Mutiny on the Bounty, Josey Wales etc.)
The free bootlegs is a neat bonus - I'd be curious if that On Golden Pond bootleg was sans dialogue. Also thought the Super Mario Silvestri would be cool to nab too - but I know Roger said they are trying to do it for Intrada at some point.
Am I the only person seeing the Title and Composer columns in the Excel file are totally out of whack?
For example, the Superman 8 CD box sets near the top of the list have music by Tiomkin...
I'm seeing the same thing. Somewhere along the line, the columns were sorted improperly, which makes it impossible to view the list by composer or label.
