Haven't seen what school lunches cost these days, have you?
Is it worth watching?
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Have you seen Very Short Treks?
(There's 4 more to the set.)
Lets assume that those 5 cartoons cost Paramount 2 million dollars.
What did they achieve?
They advertised Lower Decks, they commemorated TAS and ignored Prodigy.
Might as well as set that money on fire.
They will make a few dollars from rubes being conned into Thinking TAS is worth their while, but unless they are re-releasing a boxset, which is not what this wing of Paramount does, and considering all the non subscribers who chanced on this advert via youtube, for all this effort, they have to be needing to sell "something" to justify the capital expenditure of giving George half a million dollars for 30 seconds work.
If you turn very short treks into regular length trek... That's TAS, and considering what the animation looks like, and the modern technology used to make it, a new episode of TAS will cost a tenth what it costs to make one episode of Prodigy.
Um.
The voices will be recast, or the episodes will focus on different crewmen.
Pete Holmes played Kirk in Very Short Treks?
I don't think he played Kirk in 1973.
They gave it maybe three seconds in "Holograms all the way down"
Don't mince words; what do you really think?
TAS is %85 tracing.
They literally had a Prodigy cameo in one episode.
Shh. Inconvenient facts are inconvenient.
I must have blinked.
On the scale of rotoscoping, "tracing" may be a step down from the Disney "freehand with gentle caricature to harmonize with more broadly drawn characters" method, but it's several big steps up from the "posterize the reference films and call it rotoscoping" bovine scat that Bakshi used so shamelessly in his (thankfully aborted after the first film flopped) LotR.
And since Filmation probably didn't have the budget to shoot reference films for TAS at all, presumably the only reference they had was TOS footage, and only for action that existed as TOS footage.
It's tied with Lower Decks as my favorite of the new Treks, but watch it and then you will have your answer.
Prodigy is a lot of fun, and it does good work making the universe feel more lived in by focusing on characters who didn't grow up in the Federation or around Starfleet. It reminded me a lot of the 3D Green Lantern show from a decade ago.
And if you have to buy it on DVD (and until Netflix actually starts carrying it, it's apparently either that or borrow from a friend or a library), the fact that it's in half-season sets means it's a much smaller ante.
I bought the series because I was angry about it being taken off streaming, but I really wish they had a full complete season 1 set and not broken it in half.
I sympathize. I didn't particularly care for being left hanging for several months. But on the other hand, they did at least also break the price in half. More-or-less (probably a little more).
Which was written by one of the Prodigy writers.
It's also on Blu-ray, of course, not only on the older DVD-format.
In Europe, the boxset will cover the entire first season, not halves like in the US.
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