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"Now New and Improved!"
By TRexx

Quote from Mr Phatt:
Times have changed, and film makers cannot get away with that kind of story telling anymore, and while I have unlimited affection for the original series, thats the unfortunate reality.


You've jumbled several separate notions, and confuse story with medium, while promoting a video-arcade level of amusement.

Scenery and backdrop are for context, they aren't the storytelling. For GR's purposes, virtually every TOS story could readily transpose into a wild frontier "cowboys and indians" setting, with sweaty horses and smoking six-shooters instead of beaming and phasers.

The job of marketeers is to convince the consumer that every sweet apple is better when it's "enhanced" by the latest and greatest in colorful candy. After you've developed an appetite for processed sugar, the original fruit doesn't gratify. This is all the more true for viewers who are weaned on the superficial additives. Eventually, even a poison can become essential to what feels "right" for the fashionable addict.

Once upon a time, there were only ink-on-paper novels by "real" authors. Fans had to be literate, and they were compelled to actually use their mind's eye. TOS champions that standard among TV series.

Today, attention-deficit herds will reward the box-office for "modern" saccharin, in return for an optically triggered brain-chemistry "high", in under two hours, without thought enough to learn the spelling of SFX.

That is the unfortunate reality of a commercialized "New and Improved!" jingle culture.


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Star Trek: Romulans - Hollow Crown #1 (of 2)

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