• Kelly Aster 🏳️‍⚧️@lemmy.worldOP
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    8 months ago

    I think I only got like three or four episodes into Discovery

    Disco had a rough start because the showrunner Bryan Fuller was fired during preproduction, and they drastically changed the story he had in mind and just ran with it. Fuller has writing credits for the first 3 episodes, which is about where we both gave up on the show (I started again a few years later and got caught up). Those first two seasons are real hit & miss for me, it kinda looked like they were scrambling to develop a compelling story but were under a tight deadline.

    The part where they time travel was actually done well, I thought. I had some issues with the tone here and there, but I thought it made sense in universe. It’s really too bad Disco had so much turmoil wrt creative control, because I look at how SNW and LD hit the ground running, and it’s obvious they had a clear vision from day one and were able to plan everything properly.

    • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldM
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      8 months ago

      Bryan Fuller was fired during preproduction, and they drastically changed the story he had in mind and just ran with it.

      On the other hand, Bryan Fuller was responsible for the thing people hated most of all about the first season of Discovery:

      The other Bryan Fuller contribution that remains is his redesign of the Klingons. “One of the things he really, really wanted to do was shake up the design of the Klingons,” Herberts said. “One of the first things that he ever pitched to us when we were deciding whether or not to come on the show was his aesthetic for the Klingons and how important it was that they be aesthete, that they not be the thugs of the universe, that they be sexy and vital and different from what had come before.”

      https://www.slashfilm.com/552474/bryan-fuller-redesigned-the-star-trek-discovery-klingons/