When you finally get to watch Discovery and realize it isn't actually an enormous pile of mugato dung
When you finally get to watch Discovery and realize it isn't actually an enormous pile of mugato dung
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I think a lot of the criticism of DISCO is overblown. It’s definitely a fun watch, but it never really feels like Star Trek. It feels like an action sci-fi show wearing a heavy coat of Star Trek paint.
It was good once I accepted it for what it is and stopped expecting it to be something like what I generally expect Star Trek to be.
That's what a lot of modern Sci fi shows are doing these days, it seems.
Like the "Halo" show. It very much feels like someone took their idea for a show that got shot down, used find+replace to redo all the names and places to make it "halo" and got greenlit. And honestly I think I might have liked it as it's own thing.
People that had qaulity shows for decades expect quality. If you want to make a scifi show either don't call it Star Trek or accept the criticism
The criticism is worthless though as 95% of it was applied to every other new Trek to be released
That's not true. Enterprise was new when released and I find it quite ok. Might not be the best of the shows, but it tried a different narration perspective and decent writinf. SNW is very new and very solid, despite a similar context to DIS, with a more modern narration, relevant morality and even a less serious tone at times. It's just a better show, comparable to the "classic" ones, despite being a few years old