I feel like we’re not watching the same show. I don’t disagree that the character exploration is shallow, but the show has branched greatly in terms of giving the relatively large cast their own moments this season... it’s a slow drip, but I’m really enjoying the entire cast. I thought this episode’s story did a great…
Another for the “bizarrely angry Discovery review” pile. This one is better at seeming like it’s not a “waaaaah this doesn’t make me feel like TNG made me feel when I was 9" screed than the ones on Reddit, but that’s all this is.
I think the reviewer is making critiques based on the manner in which the story is being told as opposed to its contents. Discovery isn’t an episodic series. It is telling a story a chapter at a time of a larger story. The main critique here is that because the form isn’t episodic, its not telling its story. Do any of…
I still don’t approve of James Cameron’s reveal years later that he’d always envisioned Captain Smith as gay.
The Titanic was an inside job!
“The over $800 million Bohemian Rhapsody has grossed, making it the highest grossing drama in film history, is testament to his remarkable vision and acumen,”
Disco is taking elements from TOS and adapting them for its own use.
I really love Enterprise’s fourth season and thought it did a good job pulling Enterprise in a logical direction that leads to TOS while still very much being about humanity’s first real entrance, diplomatically and militarily, into the galactic stage. There were a lot of TOS references, yeah, but they were largely…
These opinions all derive from people who were introduced to Trek via TNG and think every captain should be Picard and the solution to every problem is to discuss it in the ready room. Spock beat the hell out of Kirk and (mostly) killed him in Amok Time- pon farr was just an excuse to make that fight happen. Invoking…
Oh, so they dealt with the destructive effects of PTSD, sexual assault, and brainwashing in a single episode? How efficient of them.
As far as pacing go, me did think some of “when Spock not on screen everyone should be talking about Spock” scenes dragged a bit. But rest of episode was terrific. Me really enjoyed first season, but me feel like this one setting up to be much better.
What utter nonsense. Trek was envisioned as “Wagon Train in space”. Two-fisted action and high adventure was central to show from very beginning, they just not have special effects budget to do things like high-speed asteroid chase.
Disastrous? Come on. Go back and watch season 1 of Next Generation and tell me Discovery not off to roaring start by Trek standards.
Honestly, one of favorite things about season one was that they not focus on bridge crew. Do we have to slavishly adhere to Star Trek template no matter how many iterations of show we do? Detmer have important job on ship, but she not central to story, and that how life works sometimes. We still stuck in this medieval…
1) don’t come for Tilly like that
“emotionally manipulative scoring”
I’m normally completely on board with these Discovery reviews but this one seems a little cynical. I thought the pivot was excellent at correcting everything that Discovery got wrong (well... mostly) while showing us that there are actually some things this series can potentially do better than the others (namely…
“emotionally manipulative scoring”
“glowing tentacle thing”