That wasn't the aim of my post, it was more to find out why others did not enjoy it as I did. What were their thoughts on it that made it unenjoyable/unwatchable. To see what perhaps I have missed.
I am not a hater but I have disliked many episodes. Since you seem to want to know I will say that the biggest problem I have had is the writing. I think its a poorly written show. Till season 3 I didn't like Michael at all. This pissed me off since she is a very good actress and one of my favs from walking dead.
It started with the pilot. I hated the "logic" of her mutiny. I didn't find it logical at all that a character that had served with her captain for years would conduct a mutiny. I hated what they did to the Klingons with the look. That Tukovma character could barely speak he had so much layers of face prosthetics on. I was laughing out loud.
Season One was hit or miss. I LOVED Lorca as a captain. Such a great actor and such a tortured soul. I hated that you had so many of the bridge officers as just ornaments. We didn't even know their names. I didn't enjoy the mirror universe in season one at all. Just wasn't well written and paced imo. I hated how the Klingon war ended so quickly also and found the stories around "mother" to be weak, poorly written.
Season two I thought got off to a good start. The episode where they found that town and the church that was transported I enjoyed that. I liked Pike. Michael's character became ever more unlikeable. She never followed orders and always just did as she pleased. Also the constant hero worship for her rubbed me the wrong way. I enjoy an ensemble cast where different characters are the hero depending on the episode. It sometimes seemed that Jet Reno was in a scene just so she can shower Michael with a compliment.
Later on Season 2 went down the tubes. I didn't enjoy the Control story and liked less and less the red angel stuff. The final battle turned the Enterprise into an aircraft carrier with hundreds of fighters. What? Also why did the ship have to go through the vortex when control was defeated? You mean they couldn't just stop the ship while they decided what to do?
Season 3 got off to the best start yet. I felt the show had turned around in my eyes but season 3 fell off a cliff for me as well at around the half way point. The explanation for the Burn didn't cut it for me. Technobabble is fine, but I don't like they way they do it on Discovery. Give me a science based reason I can accept. The idea that the magic child can blow up warp drives all over the place when he gets emotional didn't register. I thought the mirror universe episodes were again weak and kind of boring. I had issues with the Vulcan episode. Why did we need her mother there? It just felt so forced. They don't even know each other. One of her crewmates would have been a better choice for an advocate. The turbo lift scenes in the final episode were so terrible. I was like WTF?
Another thing that gets me is the way they sometimes introduced something and then just dropped it. The little robots were a good example from the end of season 3. They were introduced just to become cannon fodder? No depth. Stuff like that, and I could easily mention 2 dozen more examples both big and small from the first 3 seasons.
I will give season 4 a shot to win me over again
