Great news! Michael Chabon is a very good novelist with a long history of writing clever, thoughtful genre fiction. His involvement in this show has been the main thing that's given me hope for it, and that's now gone up a few notches. Reading the press release, I sort of suspect that this was a pre-planned transition, as Kurtzman was always going to have a lot on his plate overseeing the various upcoming spin-offs, and honestly Chabon seemed like too big of a name to be limited to a simple staff writer gig.
Kurtzman had been rumoured to have been fired from his position as showrunner, months in advance of the announcment of Chabon replacing him. This isn't a pre-planned thing at all. Although CBS are doing their darnedest to downplay the negative whispers going throughout the grapevine.
Any specifics on this? What "test screening"? A google search just throws up a few links to clickbait-looking youtube vlogs that I can't be bothered sifting through.
A test screening as reported to one of said 'clickbait-looking youtube vlogs', provided by a trusted source, who along with the vloger, has been proven to be right about such things time and time again.
Can't find any source at all for this. There are certainly physical sets visible in some of the behind the scenes photos that have been leaked so far.
The report said that they were shooting an inordinately disproportionate amount of scenes in front of a green screen, not that they weren't any physical sets at all. Naturally, CBS is going to choose behind the scenes shots from the times when there
were physical sets present.
Also I'm not sure how they could already have had a test screening were this the case?
Because that's how test screenings work. To varying degrees, the movie or show test screened is not complete. There are often cases where actors will be in front of a green screen (or with a temporary background dropped in). There will be scenes where the audience is shown nothing more than a storyboard or an animatic. Special effects will be incomplete and there will be a temp soundtrack, taken from others movies and TV shows. This is standard practice. The entire point of a test screening is to try and ascertain what, if anything, needs fixing prior to spending a huge heap of money on CGI and other post-production techniques.
I am not sure how anyone can feel any sort of anger or get any sort of insight into the quality of the show from that picture
It's not that he has a dog, it's that it's the wrong type of dog. Picard is a total poodle man. CBS simply do not understand the character.
