Comments on: I compare ‘Curb Your Enthusiasm’ to ‘Star Trek.’ Because I can.

By: Mitch

Mitch — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 05:54:09 +0000

Never saw an episode ‘Curb’ until tonight (it IS vaguely familiar, I must have seen it before flipping through channels at some point). Being a Seinfeld fan, at least of the earlier seasons, I’m definitely going to have a look at the last episode or two of Curb. Hmm, I’m debating whether I should just watch the whole season…though it’s weird, it’s a new Seinfeld episodes/material, but not. Kind of like it peering into an alternate TV dimension if you will.

ZL: Funny, I just was watching TNG and DS9 reruns in the last couple of weeks which I haven’t seen in over a decade. Compared to BSG, they remind me of comic books (still, incredibly GOOD comic books at that!). As for Voyager, if the others are comic books, let’s just say Voy is an ages 3 and up coloring book! And Enterprise? As painful as reading an instruction manual on programming an 80′s VCR heh.

By: Patrick

Patrick — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 05:13:16 +0000

Big Seinfeld and Curb fan, not to mention a huge fan of Trek and BSG. I thought season 7 of Curb was fantastic, and if Larry David ends up hanging it up for Curb, I say bravo for giving Seinfeld fans a new (and superior) ending, as well as a creative send-off for Curb.

By: ZL

ZL — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 21:26:12 +0000

Here.
Love both Seinfeld & Curb (&TDS/TCR btw). Surprising how Seinfeld, after all these years remains funny and fresh. Everything else I watched and loved then has faded – after watching BSG I just can’t get myself to watch Trek reruns. XI had to reboot or fail.

By: Eduardo

Eduardo — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 16:07:10 +0000

I never watched Curb, and wasn’t much of a Seinfeld viewer (I did watch the Soup Nazi though).

But the comment regarding the melding of fictional realities is worth a little analysis. Star Trek XI worked as well as it did to me thanks in no small part thanks to Star Trek Generations and Spock’s last appearance on the Unification two part episode from TNG. Abrams openly acknowledges the old universe’s relevance while blazing this new path. Kirk’s death made his younger self’s reunion with Nimoy’s Spock all the more poignant.

Leonard Nimoy’s Spock is a highly evolved complete character, carrying 90 years of baggage, since Kirk’s “demise” on the Enterprise-B, and the death of Sarek. Having him meet a younger Kirk, and encourage a friendship with his younger self is as close as a vulcan can get to resurrect a human friend (in contrast to Kirk’s actions on the third film).

By: Ralph

Ralph — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 06:55:41 +0000

Big Seinfeld fan here, but hadn’t heard of Curb before reading this. Perhaps it has something to do with it not being aired here in the Netherlands (I think). Thanks for the heads-up, will try to get into this one.

By: Destructor

Destructor — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 22:57:57 +0000

My GF is a HUGE Seinfeld fan but we’d never seen Curb- however when we heard that this season was the effective ‘Seinfeld reunion’, we started watching Curb from scratch. Just about to finish S3 and loving it.

By: Bytowner

Bytowner — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 20:43:12 +0000

Not really wiped out. They still want the revenue from the novels, comics, online gamers’ subscriptions using the old version of the Trek continuity, after all.