Discovery Season 2 - (spoilers)
Posted: Thu May 02, 2019 6:55 pm
Finished season 2 now and I have to say....the whole series is a damn shame with LOTS of wasted potential and some uncomprehensable decisions ruining the whole show. There is actually quite a few good things to say about the show. The production values are great. The costumes, aliens and sets look better than any Star Trek before! The intro and sound design is nice...actually.....let us be honest.....the WHOLE Art department on the show is great. (Apart from the Discovery herself being an ugly reject...but I come to accept it. The hero ship doesn't "need" to be beautiful...).
What ruined the show is the missing attention to detail and generally the style of writing, which seems to be modelled on the Abrahmsverse...nobody can stand still for 2 mins....everybody is under constant stress and duress....there is no breathing room to actually get to know and start to care for characters.
But the ultimate failing of the show is it's insistance to ride the nostalgia train while at the same time ignoring much of the continuity. Do away with that and the show could have been actually quite good.
Just imagine how easy it is to fix Discovery. Instead of setting it 10 years BEFORE TOS....make the setting 10 years AFTER DS9. BOOM. You fix everything. You have never before seen aliens...no problem. You have ships and sets looking more advanced. Also not a problem. You have an unique mode of transport on a science vessel. Sounds like a great premise. Heck, put the story in the future, keep everything the same and do away with all the NOSTALGIC family connections nobody of the target audience (millenials) gives a shit about ANYHOW....and it still works.
The same is true for the second season. Instead of Pike have one of the other captains or crew or "nostalgia" propenents show up (idk...Maybe have Riker take over for awhile...or Worf..or even Nog..doesn't really matter) and....the same storyline still works exactly the same.
It is just so mindboogingly stupid and regretfull......the people who would enjoy the nostalgia are those who would also wish for continuity....and those of the younger ones who never have seen previous Treks...they don't need these nostalgia fixes because they have no idea in the first place who Sarek, Spock, Pike etc. are......so WHO EXACTLY is served by all this? I just don't get it......
It is a shame because, as I said, the show would be good enough to stand on its own, if it would pace itself more (doing away with all the stupid everyone can be everywhere instantly if it moves the plot forward) and maybe have 20 episodes per season with their share of "filler" episodes which are actually quite important for character development. Shame about this missed opportunity imho.
What ruined the show is the missing attention to detail and generally the style of writing, which seems to be modelled on the Abrahmsverse...nobody can stand still for 2 mins....everybody is under constant stress and duress....there is no breathing room to actually get to know and start to care for characters.
But the ultimate failing of the show is it's insistance to ride the nostalgia train while at the same time ignoring much of the continuity. Do away with that and the show could have been actually quite good.
Just imagine how easy it is to fix Discovery. Instead of setting it 10 years BEFORE TOS....make the setting 10 years AFTER DS9. BOOM. You fix everything. You have never before seen aliens...no problem. You have ships and sets looking more advanced. Also not a problem. You have an unique mode of transport on a science vessel. Sounds like a great premise. Heck, put the story in the future, keep everything the same and do away with all the NOSTALGIC family connections nobody of the target audience (millenials) gives a shit about ANYHOW....and it still works.
The same is true for the second season. Instead of Pike have one of the other captains or crew or "nostalgia" propenents show up (idk...Maybe have Riker take over for awhile...or Worf..or even Nog..doesn't really matter) and....the same storyline still works exactly the same.
It is just so mindboogingly stupid and regretfull......the people who would enjoy the nostalgia are those who would also wish for continuity....and those of the younger ones who never have seen previous Treks...they don't need these nostalgia fixes because they have no idea in the first place who Sarek, Spock, Pike etc. are......so WHO EXACTLY is served by all this? I just don't get it......
It is a shame because, as I said, the show would be good enough to stand on its own, if it would pace itself more (doing away with all the stupid everyone can be everywhere instantly if it moves the plot forward) and maybe have 20 episodes per season with their share of "filler" episodes which are actually quite important for character development. Shame about this missed opportunity imho.