Viacom's feelings hurt?

[Gareth007]

I found this story hilarious, but over at Aint-it-cool-news.com, Harry has posted a message supposedly from an employee of Viacom.

This employee states for the record that that "favorable" review posted on Trektoday.com was actually a bit of spin from within VIACOM. This source claims that the people at VIACOM are shocked (SHOCKED, I TELL YA!) that the fans don't want a prequel series. But they're going to try and convince us that blowing away their own canon IS A GOOD THING.

Now, wouldn't it make sense to stop and think, hey! They don't want to watch this! Let's do something else. Keep the cast, but have a story line that makes sense!

Anyhow, here's the link
http://www.aint-it-cool-news.com/display.cgi?id=8794

I'm still laughing. . ..


--G

[Don Mappin]

Wow, if that's true, then that's pretty...underhanded. (And shows an amazing lack of faith on their part to have to resort to such propaganda.)

I think the most telling part of the whole outcry against Series V was the cast sheet that we immediately dismissed as false because it was so insane and lame, when in fact it was the real deal.

I'll reserve final judgment until the series is on the air, but I have zero interest in what has been presented thus far. (And am also not a big Scott B. fan.)


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[This message has been edited by Don (edited 04-25-2001).]

[Captain Blake]

So, a producer at Via/Para/Trek was responsible for that "Favorable Review." Makes some sense. I had wondered, it seemed too favorable to be from a Fan.

Minor rant here:

Hmmm, maybe if your entire core audience, the Star Trek Fans (the ones who actually still watch Voyager, despite the crappy writing--the actors do the best they can with what they have to work with) don't like the premise of the new show, then maybe the premise of the show should be changed.

Seems logical to me. Nobody outside the core audience watches Voyager anyways. It's not like the "cool new premise" is going to bring in new people. They were scared off by Voyager. We're the only ones left. Make us happy for a change.

The best comments I've heard from anyone is "Well, I'll wait and see, it might not be too bad." Nobody is excited about Series V, set in the past. And the producers are getting upset and spin doctoring rather than changing anything. Sigh.

It's kind of like the Canon thing. "It's too hard to keep things straight, and besides it limits the writers too much," is what we've been told. Makes sense on the surface.

But any one of tens of thousands of trek fans could keep things straight (if we couldn't, there wouldn't be a problem, would there), and every other show out there forces their writers to keep internal consistancy. Except maybe Wrestling, and perhaps Sit-coms.

Come on Viacom/Paramount/RickB/BrannonB, make the fans happy for once. Don't kill the "Franchise" because your egos won't let you admit that you're wrong.

end minor rant. Thanks for listening, if anyone was.

Alex

[qerlin]

I'll watch the first episode & judge from there. I watched most of the first season of Voyager before I just couldn't do it anymore. It was so...bad.

The boys at Viacom forgot the one big thing about Trek: it's fan driven. Give the Trek fans what they WANT.

[H. Tarlana]

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Captain Blake:


end minor rant. Thanks for listening, if anyone was.

Alex</font>

I only hope that Viacom/Paramount is listening

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Keep your mouth shut and nothing wierd will happen

[Phoenix]

Yes some of us are. We'll see some time later if all the debate was worth the effort.

Phoenix

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"Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake."
-Napoleon

[Makklor]

The only thing that I’m afraid of is; if all the “info” is true and it is as bad as we are really afraid it is, will it kill “Star Trek”? Considering that not that many fans will watch it. I just hope they will listen to us before they can it forever.

Makklor


[This message has been edited by Makklor (edited 04-26-2001).]