Inspired by gregorum’s post concerning issues with startrek.website, which is ironic as lemmy.world is a bit glitchy right now and isn’t letting me upload and had to use my alt here.

  • soli@infosec.pub
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    9 months ago

    You’re kind of right. Discovery S1 was trying to be a dark, prestige drama. It felt a lot more like BSG than Trek. I haven’t watched it since it premiered but I don’t remember hating it, though I didn’t love it either.

    They fired their show runner pretty early, so there is another tone shift from S2 onward. The tone becomes a lot more like the new-Trek movies, and later much more like Strange New Worlds. Take a look at screenshots from Season 4 compared to Season 1 to see just how much it shifted stylistically.

    The real issue isn’t aesthetic or tonal, it’s that the writing is excruciating.

    • marcos@lemmy.world
      1·
      9 months ago

      Discovery S3 had a really great “let’s make a brighter future together!” theme… that then they destroyed by making it end that way.

      I really tried to like the series, but no.

      • Keeponstalin@lemmy.world
        2·
        9 months ago

        So far the only part of DIS I enjoy is Commander Pike (and his Enterprise crew)

        Ok, and the parts with the Andorians/Orions