I dislike animated series, outside of animated comedy, & prefer live actors. Because of the awesome ‘Center Seat’ documentary (only thing I disliked was <I think was last 2-episodes> auction coverage, because just wealthy enough people to store away ‘Star Trek’; instead of just COOP & thus, accessible by all Museums) about ‘Star Trek’ universe’s from very beginning to the release year of the documentary, I know the only serious & mainstream award awarded (I think it was a Emmy) to any ‘Star Trek’ series has ever won, was this series for one of their episodes. I have yet to watch the Emmy winning episode, but still the stories are good to The Original ‘Twilight Zone’ already did that.
I am keep watching the series,
I found I enjoyed it more when I treated it like a radio drama (or podcast), never actually looking at the bad animation 😁 but yeah, as mentioned elsewhere, I rank it way above Discovery
Interesting, I thought of experiencing it that way. Not sure, this visual dominate person can. Remind me, what the ‘Discovery’ series?
Love it. Pleasurably campy, occasionally actually quite good despite its comically bad animation.
But honestly, what animation have you actually watched? Infinity Train is a solid piece of television, with season 3 being one of the best pieces of media I’ve ever experienced. I find it weird to broadly dismiss animation as a general storytelling medium; there are some things you can do with animation that just doesn’t look good in live action.
Campy is the best way to describe it!
‘Infinity Train‘? What is it, never heard of it.
“I find it weird to broadly dismiss animation as a general storytelling medium; there are some things you can do with animation that just doesn’t look good in live action.”
I could not agree more with you, never completely dismissing animation, or really any way to visual aide in telling stories. Just for me, it only really works for comedies.
It’s pretty nice if you keep in mind that it’s a product of its time and meant for a younger audience (or at least inclusive of a younger audience).
I’d rank The Animated Series close to the bottom of Trek, but significantly above Discovery and Picard.
Lower Decks, which was an excellent animated show definitely geared toward adults, took quite a few elements from TAS. And since it’s such a short show (like 8 hours in total?) I recommend sitting through it before Lower Decks.
Oh, I like-love younger audience programming, but I do not think this series is exclusively for younger audiences (I hate censoring away adult media from younger people). The stories are to mature, remember they did want to be on Sat. mornings, with cartoons.
Like Picard, best Captain & not even close, but not about there retirement years & too many other better ‘S T’ series out there.
Yet to watch Lower Desks, again animation problem, but love forever the idea of moving ‘S T’ to the lesser seen/ranked, but equally important characters. Thisvwas such a awesome story idea that should been done with real actors in real scenes & on a huge network.
By ‘T A S’ you mean ‘The Animated Series’, right?
I enjoyed it, there are a couple of very decent stories. The fact they could have more deviant species portrayed (like the cat people) is also fun.
The animation quality is horrible, and they often reused scenes very noticeably, and some of the voice actors sound like ridiculous Scooby Doo villains, but despite all of that it was a good run.
I could not agree more with your comments.
