poor execution by modern standards, let me clarify. And I am over 40, btw.
Michael Burnham is the Chosen One
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I find it a bit dull, the pacing is just too slow for my tastes. But TV has changed drastically since then and even by the time I was old enough to remember TV, so it wasn’t really made for me. I do think that it will be a problem for it going forward into the future.
Most of the post-TOS shows, other than perhaps TNG, have not held on for half as long as TOS so there's no reason to expect STD to do. Now, by "hold up" I mean specifically continue to be widely watched. The decline in the marketability of the modern Trek shows as years have passed has been noted; the disappointing sell-through of the TNG remastered project is a major reason that nothing's being done with the later shows.
Perhaps a lot of that is due to HOW folks now get a large amount of their viewing done.
Streaming has certainly curtailed all of my watching TV shows on Broadcast Networks (I haven't had cable for over a decade now), and it has even cut heavily into my buying of DVDs/Blu-rays.
Up till today, when I finally ordered DISCOVERY Season-1 on Blu-ray from AMAZON with a $30 Xmas gift card, I haven't bought hard copies of TV/Movies in almost a year.
She should be dragged in front of a tribunal and executed as a mutineer. No star fleet officer behaves like this. This isn't Star Trek. It is a cheap rip off. Like look at the Klingon's, OMG its soooo bad. How can anyone like this show. The Star Trek spirit is gone, where is the exploration, where is the prime directive. Its just a bunch of low brow effects to wow the idiot that couldn't understand the real concepts form the first three series.
Starfleet doesn’t execute people for mutiny. A “true” Star Trek fan would know that.
Just ignore the troll. He's not going to be here for long.
... so say we all. <snicker>
Looks like the Michael Burnham Praise-fest continues for Season 2;
"There are also moments where the episode gets a bit too precious. There’s one moment with the Enterprise, but most involve Burnham. She’s proven herself to be an exceptional officer (and please leave your “Mary Sue” complaints at the door). Yet, the way that so many people throughout the episode feel the need to vocalize how awesome she is to her face feels strange. It's especially jarring when she was so looked down on for her actions aboard the Shenzhou throughout the previous season. It is understandable that Discovery’s writers might want to push past that. They likely don't want to deal with the fallout of Burnham’s mutiny forever, but this episode lays it on a bit thick at times."
https://comicbook.com/startrek/2019/01/07/star-trek-discovery-season-2-review/
And if the schmuck that wrote that review thinks they are laying it on too thick with the Burnham praise... oh boy.
"There are also moments where the episode gets a bit too precious. There’s one moment with the Enterprise, but most involve Burnham. She’s proven herself to be an exceptional officer (and please leave your “Mary Sue” complaints at the door). Yet, the way that so many people throughout the episode feel the need to vocalize how awesome she is to her face feels strange. It's especially jarring when she was so looked down on for her actions aboard the Shenzhou throughout the previous season. It is understandable that Discovery’s writers might want to push past that. They likely don't want to deal with the fallout of Burnham’s mutiny forever, but this episode lays it on a bit thick at times."
https://comicbook.com/startrek/2019/01/07/star-trek-discovery-season-2-review/
And if the schmuck that wrote that review thinks they are laying it on too thick with the Burnham praise... oh boy.
I can understand them going after Michael Bay for his one dimensional presentation of women and men in his Transformer movies. But I disagree strongly with her mentioning Joss Whedon because he presented one "kick ass fragile waif"- like character "with no real power", in River Tam in Firefly.
All the other regular women characters on that show were attractive, but hardly fragile or waif-like and powerless. This suggests to me that Whedon was not unaware of how he was presenting River, and did so in furtherance of the character's story arc rather than an unconscious "affinity" for portraying women who appear superficially "powerful" but are ultimately "weak".
When you add in the attractive and "powerful" women characters in Buffy, Whedon is the last director who should have been mentioned in this vid.
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It makes me hope they compliment her 5x as much in season two. Maybe have some confetti or something when someone says her name.
Why do you care?Looks like the Michael Burnham Praise-fest continues for Season 2;
"There are also moments where the episode gets a bit too precious. There’s one moment with the Enterprise, but most involve Burnham. She’s proven herself to be an exceptional officer (and please leave your “Mary Sue” complaints at the door). Yet, the way that so many people throughout the episode feel the need to vocalize how awesome she is to her face feels strange. It's especially jarring when she was so looked down on for her actions aboard the Shenzhou throughout the previous season. It is understandable that Discovery’s writers might want to push past that. They likely don't want to deal with the fallout of Burnham’s mutiny forever, but this episode lays it on a bit thick at times."
https://comicbook.com/startrek/2019/01/07/star-trek-discovery-season-2-review/
And if the schmuck that wrote that review thinks they are laying it on too thick with the Burnham praise... oh boy.
Because just like the latest thread that poster started, he wishes to broadcast his contempt for the show and apparently wishes to tear anyone who likes the show, a new one.
Or at the very least, denigrate Discovery to anybody who will listen.
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Pike: Commander Burnham...
* confetti falls *
Burnham: (looks up) Where does that keep coming from?!?
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Pike: Commander Burnham...
* confetti falls *
Burnham: (looks up) Where does that keep coming from?!?
Even one episode. Just one episode, this has to happen.
How sad.Because just like the latest thread this poster started, he wishes to broadcast his contempt for the show and apparently wishes to tear anyone who likes the show, a new one.
Or at the very least denigrate Discovery to anybody who will listen.
Imagine if Burnham had the same amount of accolades as Kirk's in "Court Martial".
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