Well, yeah, I have to first totally buy into the world. Then I can get into the characters and the story. That's how it works for me. Of course, if I don't totally buy into the world, then I'm gone. So pretty simple.
So it's not purposely looking for any flaws, I just have different standards than you do, apparently. I expect very high quality, and if I don't get it, then it's not worth my time. And I'm telling you exactly how it is, so there's no need for any "indicates" or "seems" about anything.
Again, it's very simple: I like it or I don't like it. And I don't need to purposely look for any flaws in anything, because it's not that important to me.
That's also why I've watched next to no genre television, because most of it I find to be of very low quality and therefore not worth my time.
Before
Games of Thrones, which I thought was high quality, I honestly can't tell you the last genre show that I watched on television. Maybe an odd episode of
Voyager, when I would check in on that from time to time to see if it had gotten any better. So maybe 15 years. And after
Game of Thrones... I guess
Westworld and then
Discovery. So it has to be what I consider high quality or I don't watch it.
Growing up watching The Original Series in syndication I was a little kid, and I didn't have the same type of expectations that I did as I grew older. So The Original Series was fine to 5 year-old me. Nowadays of course The Original Series looks ridiculous to me. And the stories and characters aren't anywhere near as compelling to me as they once were.
But that's fine. Because I've found something that I consider much higher quality in
Star Trek: Discovery. And it's something whose world I immediately bought into from it's opening moment. Well, after the Klingon scene, that was a little cheesy to me at first. No, but the desert opening with Michael and Georgiou I immediately bought into. And of course I don't think every episode of
Discovery is perfect, but I totally buy into the world, so I can accept the good and the bad when it comes to the characters and story. So pretty simple.
The only other time with Star Trek that I totally bought into the world was the opening moments of JJ Trek in 2009. I bought that hook, line, and sinker, so I was good to go. And I guess
The Motion Picture I immediately bought into too, after the Klingon scene (and what is it with Star Trek and cheesy opening Klingon scenes), but I was little kid then too, so... And every other Star Trek movie I had no interest in (save for the first two JJ movies), and have only seen one or two of them, but that's neither here nor there.
Anyway, that's also why I dislike all of 90s Star Trek, because I never bought into any of what they were putting forward. That was just cheesy-a** Star Trek television to me, and not very high quality, and therefore not worth with my time. And
The Next Generation debuted when I was 17. So I wasn't looking at it through the eyes of a little kid. No, I was looking at it though the eyes of a cynical teenager. And it looked like trash to me.
No, but, so I could never get into any of the characters. And none of the characters were interesting to me anyway. So it was a lose/lose all around. So pretty simple.
So it's nothing to shrug your shoulders about. We just have different standards and like different things. And nothing hard to understand about that. It's pretty simple.
