• inb4_FoundTheVegan@lemmy.worldEnglish
    27·
    23 days ago

    Star Trek TNG established that going warp speed causes permanent damage to sections of space, set a new speed limit, then immediately broke that rule next episode because it’s an emergency and never mentioned speed limits again.

    Oh and the time they discovered all the generals had mind control aliens inside their heads, said it’s obviously a huge problem but then mentioned it again, again.

    90s TV lol

          • BananaTrifleViolin@piefed.worldEnglish
            3·
            23 days ago

            Originally The Borg were going to be insectoid, and the next episode - the series 1 season finale - was apparently going to be a 2 part episode that introduced them. But there was a writers strike curtailing writing on the episodes, so it was cut back to 1 episode and the Borg delayed until season 2. They also changed direction making them cybernetic, and dialling back the menace.

            It makes sense in retrospect - the Borg are a hive mind, and bugs in conspiracy could also be seen as behaving in a somewhat similar way. Crazy to think things could have been very different if there hadn’t been a writers strike - they may have had to commit to the Conspiracy version of the Borg.

    • BananaTrifleViolin@piefed.worldEnglish
      3·
      23 days ago

      The mind control aliens one was supposed to be the Borg, who were apparently originally going to insectoid and to be introduced in the next episode after Conspiracy as the first part of an end of season 2-parter. But a writers strike apparently changed their plans, leading to a rushed single episode for the Season 1 finale, and pushing the Borg’s proper introduction into the next season. They reworked their ideas to a cybernetic hive mind instead by the time they actually introduced the Borg in season 2.

  • crpknkr@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    23 days ago

    That one guy’s love interest they abandoned in the future in the second season of Heroes. I know it was due to the writer’s strike, but the whole thing just came off as cold.

    • Notyou@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      4·
      23 days ago

      I forgot about the waitress and Hiro. Man that show had good potential but they always failed to stick the landing.

    • the_crotch@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      1·
      22 days ago

      The writers released a treatment of what seasons 3 and 4 would have looked like, you can find it floating around the internet

  • CerebralHawks@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    5·
    23 days ago

    I like FROM. There are so many… I remember when people had to pick between the town and Colony House. The show is just taking the piss now but it’s just one more season.

    • Skavau@piefed.socialOPMEnglish
      3·
      23 days ago

      There are some (especially in S04), but I don’t know that “Picking between the Town and Colony House” was precisely a specific plot point to be repeatedly revisited. The divisions between them ended by the end of Season 1 and it became more relaxed.

    • OhShitSon@lemmy.zipEnglish
      1·
      22 days ago

      Yeah, my girlfriend and I are watching this, but it really feels like there’s only new questions. Never any answers.

      • CerebralHawks@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        1·
        21 days ago

        They’ve answered a few questions, but the big ones (where they actually are and how they’re supposed to escape) are still unclear. The end of season 4 answered a lot.

        The problem is, the show keeps changing the rules as rules become inconvenient. Or at least less relevant to what they are trying to do.

        In a sense, it’s LOST all over again. You have the two forces that are playing a long game that repeats every few decades. You could say God and Satan, but they’re called other things. The thing with LOST was, a lot of the bullshit we were trying to figure out just ended up being games they had to play to appease the higher powers. It didn’t end up meaning anything.

  • Guy Ingonito@reddthat.comEnglish
    2·
    22 days ago

    I think the big one is Tony Soprano’s mother, who’s actress died in the middle of the series cutting her plotline short.

    She was really the ultimate villain, in a show about evil gangsters. The show even jokes about how there’s no point in Tony going to therapy anymore because she was the source of his issues - i.e. the entire motivating premise of the series was gone now, lol.

  • scytale@piefed.zipEnglish
    21·
    23 days ago

    That punk/edgy “sister” of Eleven in Stranger Things. If they pushed through with it maybe it would’ve been so bad that they finish off the entire series earlier and be done with it.