I like Saru. I like the showās aesthetic. Thatās about where it ends. May as well do the dislikes as bullet points for readability.
The tie-in of Michael being Spockās never-before-mentioned adopted sibling just feels like bad fanfiction.
Most of the crew is so neglected that I didnāt even know their names in Season 2. This came to a head when in one episode they were going to kill a bridge character and had to spend 20 minutes at the beginning of the episode highlighting her life so that when they did kill her, the audience would actually care.
I dislike the constantly very high stakes. The series feels like an extremely long action film.
Trill lore changes
Season 1 Klingon design choices. Besides the hair thing, I also think a lot could have been done to flesh out the culture and highlight differences between the various housesā traditions besides basically assigning them colour differences.
Iām sure there was a lot more that bothered me, but itās been so long since I stopped caring enough to watch that Iāve probably forgotten.
I hate watched this last season. I just donāt care what happens to that crew, which is a first for Star Trek. Iām hoping for a Newhart ending and the whole series is a dream Spock is having.
I think your opinion relfects mine the most so I just piggyback on your comment.
Maybe Iād go one step further with your second point that specifically giving Michael Burnham the spotlight 95% of the time has been a bad decision. On the hand the series relies on all of the crew, on the other hand it is almost always Michael who is involved in finding the solution or making the decision.
My initial reaction was it was not star Trek, but game of thrones in space with over the top emotionality and focus on individual power struggles. Like, Star Trek at itās best is about how people of limited power organized to understand and coexist in the universe. This has nothing to do with that, but was all there is an evil universe and itās all or nothing to survive.
I liked the actual spoken klingon-- a technical feat of bringing a new language to life.
It was really beautiful
I was weirdly uncomfortable but also ended up really liking the red headed engineering ladyās character and role-- something actually kind of new for Star Trek, I think.
Reason I stopped watching, apart from disinterest in an arching plot thatās more like medieval warrior king business, was the focus on a tear jerking character that in any other series would get a couple one off episodes, but here was supposed to be driving the main plot and was just way to much of her.
It could just be me: the expanse annoyed me the same way after a while with the scruffy captain guy crying and doing dumb emotional things every episode. I get that thatās the point of a lot of plots tragic flaw thatās actually a strength because love wins or whatever, but the melodramatic representationā¦ I guess Iām looking for short form thought experiments, not the fate of humanity and everyone you love rests on the knife edge of one characterās emergency therapy session.
Star Trek is supposed to explore the structures we build to prevent the need for emergency therapy in spite of the fact that we are all just weak emotional people.
Michael Burnham and how stretched her story was. Iām more of an episodic fan too. Then you had a lot of subplots that made no sense or didnāt matter. Also annoying characters got way too much screen time. Not sure why so many of them must be quirky to be interesting? Overall my most disliked Star Trek.
There was this tardigrade episode that was fantastic, I wish STD had all been like that.
I donāt dislike it, I actually truly enjoyed the first two and half seasons, even thought it is way too centred on Michael; I do miss the synergy with the rest of the crew, that we find in the other series.
About Michael Burnhamāyes, sheās highly conflicted emotionally, going batshit Vulcan logic enforcer for a moment then flipping into full emo mode the next. But then again, that fits perfectly with the persona, and she is a wonderful actress to be able to play this with such finesse and subtleness. I get that some may not see or understand the level of acting at play, or it may resonate a bit too much to others, but damn, I personally find Sonequa Martin-Green is amazing in her acting.
What stretch it a bit too much was how fast they were able to get back into service 900 years in the future. But, Iāll close my eyes on this, as it was somehow needed for the plot.
But what truly lost me, are:
ā¢ The true reason of The Burn, being the silliest thing possible;
ā¢ That crazy turbolift fight, with the pod literally floating through immense football fields of empty spaceāinside the Discovery?!??
ā¢ The fact that the future looks so boringly āsanitizedā. And, the tech isnāt that advanced in many points. Itās 900 years forward dammit. Especially with from when they left. Yet it feels like maybe only 200-300 years after Picard, not 600-700 years later, aside for the personal transporters maybe.
My biggest disappointment is that they had a huge chance to show so many potential new worlds, freedom from fixed canon, to show how it changed, with how each world evolved independently. What we briefly glimpsed as she just arrived in the future. But it only lasted for one or two episodes.
I want to see wonders, I want to see exotic worlds, with lustful vegetation and animals, just like they did with the Klingons, making them truly alien. I want to be swooped in and marvelled like the kid I used to be. The fourth season brought back a little of that, with the 10C at the end. But barely.
God damnit, I forgot about the turbolift parallel universe. Holy crap, that was such a weird choice to make. Like, this does not make sense in any sort of way. But they kept doubling down on it, right? Wasnāt this shown like 2 or 3 times throughout the series?
The show is pretty good, what I donāt like is how Paramount pulled it from Netflix in Europe 2 days before it was due to air here, with no legal way to watch it until the Paramount+ app was launched here months later.
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