That magazine cover with Ncuti Gatwa on it looks like if you asked a Gen AI to create a magazine cover with Ncuti Gatwa on it. Like, back off the Photoshop tweaks a bit the guy doesn't need it.

[–] ValueSubtracted@startrek.website 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

The airbrushing will continue until morale improves.

[–] halm@leminal.space 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

This kind of material feels genuinely aimed at the segment of the audience longing for dodgy CGI à la 2007 😆

[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

I don't even know if it's a tweak, it looks full on generated

[–] Alteon@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I really, really like Ncuti Gatwa. I think he's a fantastic actor and I really hope he's going to be huge....but I couldn't fucking stomach how terrible and awkward the S1 Ep1 opener was...like, holy shit was it bad.

We had to turn it off about 8 mm minutes in....and that was after weeks of waiting excitedly to see it.

[–] Cort@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

Yeah the opening 2-3 episodes reminded me of the movie, but it got better

[–] deweydecibel@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Sounds like it was all ancillary stuff, too. Various other lives and incarnations.

Course it doesn't mean much until we see the actual episode.

[–] ValueSubtracted@startrek.website 3 points 5 months ago

Yeah, at the end of the day it's a standard deleted scene - the information within it was conveyed just as easily by the Doctor explaining the situation to UNIT.

[–] askryan@startrek.website 2 points 5 months ago

This is heart-shattering because I would do anything to see the goofy bug people from The Web Planet make a return