No idea. I don't have access to their financials.
I don't like this news about SNW season 3 from Screen Rant
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Also: production costs have massively increased across the whole industry since Discovery's debut nearly a decade ago. And especially since the pandemic.
In the case of the first season, two extra episodes were added, but that was only because they made the decision to make the Shenzhou storyline a two-part episode rather than the original intent of having it play out as a flashback storyline throughout the first half of the season. In the second season, one extra episode due to them getting overzealous while writing the finale.
I'm glad they abandoned the idea of piecemealing Michael's backstory throughout the season and went with something more linear. Interesting that they did that, given Disco's over-reliance on the mystery box format in later seasons.
IIRC, the main reason they abandoned that plan was because they found inserting the flashback scenes was hurting the narrative flow of each episode, then Paramount told them they couldn't have any flashback scenes in the Harry Mudd's Groundhog Day episode in order to make that one as standalone as possible, so they finally decided it was easier to run the Shenzhou storyline as a two part episode and open the series that way.
I never liked that they made harry mudd a murderer in STD even if it was a groundhog day affect episode. He really was ok with murdering. The original Harry Mudd while a jerk never really resorted to outright murder as I recall.
We're introduced to a Harry Mudd that's an unabashed sex trafficker that has no compunction about watching the Enterprise burn up in the atmosphere in order to get what he wants.
Pretty sure that's a man that could easily commit murder.
Dude's a villain. Trusting him is a fool's errand.
If you look carefully at Mudd's conduct in TOS, he was a resentful sociopath who would do anything. That the writers chose to save the heroes from the most dire consequences of his plots (even writing one of them as a comedy) and Carmel played him with such charm doesn't obviate what he was doing.
"Leo Walsh, who was to be my captain on this trip, passed away suddenly."
Hmm...
What if it was Mirror Mudd all along?
What if it was an Organian pretending to be Harry Mudd?
Brings a whole new meaning to Orgasm, dat's fr sur.
I tend to lean on a line from Mudd's Women to explain any differences in the two portrayals:
"...Sentences, psychiatric treatment, effectiveness disputed."
So yeah, TOS era Mudd had some 23rd century psychiatric treatments that "softened' him a bit
I love how so many people scream bloody murder anytime Spock gets a new sibling, but when there's an obvious dot to connect, people want there to be yet another unknown sibling.
Also, Harry Mudd was portrayed as a sex trafficker who was more than willing to let The Enterprise crew rot. I don't have any problem with him being depicted as a cold-blooded murderer.
Also, Harry Mudd was portrayed as a sex trafficker who was more than willing to let The Enterprise crew rot. I don't have any problem with him being depicted as a cold-blooded murderer.
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Spock is the Scott Summers of the Trek universe. Cyclops was introduced as an orphan in X-Men in the 1960s. Then suddenly he had a brother, Havok. Then Mr. Sinister said there was another brother, who after over a decade of speculation was revealed as Gabriel Summers. Then writer Fabian Nicieza insisted on having his original Summers brother idea added into canon (despite the Gabriel Summers story overriding it by giving no timeline room for another pregnancy by Cyclops' mom) by adding another story where Adam-X/X-Treme is Cyclops' brother from a bizarre DNA lab experiment using the DNA of Cyclops' mom and the Shi'ar emperor.
Writer Chris Claremont got in on the act by having Gambit be another Summers brother in X-Men the End, claiming Gambit was created in a lab using Summers DNA. Another old X-Men writer claims that he intended for Apocalypse to be yet another Summers brother, born of an affair by Cyclops' dad and then being sent thousands of years into the past into ancient Egypt.
I'm probably missing a few Summers brothers even after this writeup.
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