Star Trek: Prodigy Season 2 Releases Early In France (darkhorizons.com)
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- News link: https://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/24/03/26/1814248/star-trek-prodigy-season-2-releases-early-in-france
- Source link: https://www.darkhorizons.com/star-trek-prodigy-s2-releases-in-france/
> In a major surprise, all twenty episodes of the second season of the animated series 'Star Trek: Prodigy' [2]have suddenly been made available in France thanks to broadcaster France Televisions.
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> According to TrekCentral it seems France.TV, the online streaming service for the national public broadcaster, has released the entirety of the second season all at once and without any prior warning or announcement.
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> This has led to questions online as to how this happened. Paramount+ unexpectedly canceled the series in June last year -- even as a second season had almost finished production and was completed shortly after. It took numerous fan campaigns and social media protests but ultimately Netflix picked up both completed seasons in October 2023. The streamer has confirmed the twenty episode second season will arrive this year but hasn't set a specific date as yet.
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> Today's unexpected release in France has many wondering if this a mistake, or is this the result of a specific licensing deal with that country and distributor. Either way, spoilers for the new season are already flooding online along with a lot of people calling for fans to wait for the official release and support the creators.
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> Whether intentional or not, it's not clear if Netflix will shift its release strategy for the new season in the wake of this.
[1] https://slashdot.org/~AmiMoJo
[2] https://www.darkhorizons.com/star-trek-prodigy-s2-releases-in-france/
The link (Score:2)
[1]https://www.france.tv/enfants/... [france.tv]
To watch, you'll probably need a VPN localizing you in France.
[1] https://www.france.tv/enfants/neuf-douze-ans/star-trek-prodigy/#season-enfants-neuf-douze-ans-star-trek-prodigy-saison-2
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Won't you need to understand French?
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For you as an adult that will help make the experience less boring, but not necessarily for your children. They'll try and make sense of what they see.
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I'll add that as it is a kids show, it probably includes visual clues (for the younger kids that watch along their older siblings even though they are too young to understand the full details) so everybody in the family can understand the overall meaning.
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> [1]https://www.france.tv/enfants/... [france.tv]
> To watch, you'll probably need a VPN localizing you in France.
I think you mean you’ll V ery P robably N eed a service localizing you in France.
[1] https://www.france.tv/enfants/neuf-douze-ans/star-trek-prodigy/#season-enfants-neuf-douze-ans-star-trek-prodigy-saison-2
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You'll also need a universal translator device: this is a French dubbed version only, with no English track available.
Why wait? (Score:2)
Why wait? It IS an official release and the creators have been paid for it, otherwise that network wouldn't even be able to show it. So if you don't mind french audiodub (as I don't think it will have an english audio dub) go ahead and watch it.
Kids Show (Score:2)
Well it's for kids so who cares? Kids don't follow press releases. They just watch whatever is next in their Netflix feed.
Or is this one of those manbaby shows that true nerds care passionately about? Personally I've never seen it, and have no interest in it, despite being a Star Trek fan.
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I think it's "news" because it's one of the shows that got cancelled and supposedly removed everywhere.
Or am I thinking of something else?
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It's a weird one. They had almost finished work on season 2, in post-production. Then they suddenly cancelled it.
The way it works now is that the studio that produced it under licence can sell it to other networks, so they managed to get Netflix to pick it up. Really glad they did because it's great. Hopefully it does well and gets renewed.
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It's a kids' Star Trek show... Maybe tween-age. This will not stop adult Trek fans from obsessing over it.
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The show was entertaining. It was not as good as Next Gent or DS9 as its height, and a few parts felt more Star Wars than Star Trek, but overall it is very well done. One should not skip it just because it is labeled as a kids-show. I suggest giving it at least the first few episodes.
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Prodigy season 1 is one of the best seasons of Star Trek ever produced. While I'm not really into ranking shows, it's up there as one of the best, easily the equal of TNG and even DS9 at their best.
It boils down the essence of what it means to be Starfleet, and gives a new perspective on it. Often in Trek they talk about the principles of being a Starfleet officer, but then fail to show what they mean on a personal level, how they help someone grow into a better person, and cope with the challenges they are
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It was also a really good solution to the 'how do you introduce people who are unfamiliar with a long running franchise?' New viewers learning as the characters do, its a great way of introducing a pretty overwhelming universe at this point.
Re: Kids Show (Score:2)
You miss out on a lot of fun stuff with that attitude. Prodigy is to Voyager as Lower Decks is to TNG.
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I don't know about this show in particular, but often making a show "kid friendly" isn't too bad.
A lot of "this is for adults" programming is exhausting, it wants to be edgy, it wants to be dark, it wants to lean in too much on gore or tangential sex, and skips on actually having a good core story. Most exhausting of all is that these shows are over the top melodramatic. A good "kids show" has to stand without all that.
Now a bad kids show can be tortuous, but generally if they are aiming for at least 10 ye
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Huh. Sounds pretty manbaby of you.. a sad man baby worried about if the other man babies will see them as adult enough.