It has tos stick to canon because that is what was planned and that is what has been built on. if the show , when announced said this is a full reboot in an alternate reality like the kelvin verse, than canon would not matter.
Continuity only matters insofar as it increases suspension of disbelief and adds depth to the story being told.
I swear, there is something strange here on this board, if I did not know better i would say many people here are kurtzman and godsman plants and paramount plus PR gurus
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wish! Pretty sure my bank account would be in better shape if I were!
or the myth of how people give the pretty white blonde girl character a pass must be true and don't apply the same rules they set for other characters.
I'm not sure what you mean by "don't apply the same rules they set for other characters." I don't think Christine and Spock dating in 2259 is any bigger continuity issue than Michael being Spock's adopted sister, for instance.
You people are the same folks that gave the kelvin films a hard time even though that series is not prime canon
So my name is Sci, and I've been posting on the TrekBBS for going on 20 years now. I've defended the Kelvin Timeline films many times from people whining about its supposed continuity issues.
No I am not going to let that kind of inconsistency slide after all the hate that has shown to kelvinverse.
What if I told you I love SNW
and the Kelvin Timeline, and that I think continuity issues shouldn't bind either of them?
No, there will be big Issue if they go too far with spock and chapel, this will create more continuity issue than even Michael Burnham because at least Michael we can argue she was classified and spock never saw her again. Spock gets to see Chapel every day and not once did Spock even return her feelings, if this was a lost love there will be some traces or some signs that something happened but TOS never showed that from Spock POV. TOS Spock never even understood Chapel or knew her well enough in TOS. He found mot of her crush on him behaviour odd.
I really don't think their relationship was developed well enough in TOS to defend that argument.
But also I'm kind of okay with declaring that TOS is in its own continuity and that SNW and the rest of Trek is no longer bound by all of the details from TOS.
Seriously I am kind of shocked by how much Chapel seems to be getting a pass here, when she is been written worse than her TOS self
Pure nonsense. The Chapel of SNW is a far richer, more three-dimensional, well-realized character than the Chapel of TOS. The Chapel of TOS got to have a personality for about four minutes out of the entire series.
Taking advantage of a situation to come onto him.
She didn't come onto him.
Her face on her hands that is not a friend thing.
No, it's a "someone-I-care-about-is-in-pain-and-I-am-trying-to-help-them" thing.
Chapel should not have done that because Spock is engaged to Tpring. She crossed a line that is why it is over the top because she is not respecting boundaries.
No one crossed a line. She offered him comfort in a moment of emotional pain. Then when the hug ended, they both realized that there was an attraction there which was separate and distinct from their friendship. They both froze, and then Spock moved away. They both walked right up to the line, but neither one crossed it.
which is very odd because considering episode 7 when she says she knows were she stands with him. So Chapel is written to be obsessed here.
No. She's written as a caring person who is trying to help someone in pain,
and who is realizing she has to deal with having feelings for that person. That is not obsession, and your description is absurd.
I think she wanted Spock to kiss her
They both realized they wanted to kiss each other after the hug ended, and they both refused to act on that desire.
that is why she had his hand in his face.
No. She touched her hands to his face because she is a very tactile person who was trying to comfort a friend in pain. She would have done the same for any friend.
She was egging him on hence her disappointment on her face as she watched him go.
Absolutely not. You are ascribing a level of manipulativeness and selfishness to her behavior that is completely unsupported by either dialogue or the actor's performance. She wasn't "egging him on." She was clearly caught by surprise by her own feelings. She and Spock both froze -- neither one was willing to act on the attraction they both realized they were feeling after the hug. Then Spock left. Her look afterwards is one of pain at the realization she has serious feelings for a man who is in a relationship, not disappointment that Spock did not cheat on T'Pring with her.
Sorry that will be a TAS Episode, cant remember the name but she uses a love portion on Spock.
Yeah, I do not give a shit about anything that happened in TAS.
Chapel is the worst female on the show
In my experience, there is a high correlation between men using the word "female" as a noun and men dehumanizing women.
I strongly suggest you not use "female" when "woman" would suffice.
Also, why are you attacking Christine? She's not the one who has chosen to stay in a relationship she knows cannot last, and she is not the one hiding her true feelings from her fiance. If anyone deserves to be attacked, it's Spock.
(To be clear, neither of them deserve to be attacked. In real life, sometimes people fall out of love while they're still in relationships, and sometimes people fall in love with someone outside of their relationships. That doesn't make them bad people.)
and she is lucky she is the pretty white girl because if things were different I doubt fans will be giving her a pass so easily.
Oh, don't worry, some fans will always find an excuse to dehumanize and demonize women.
Finally yes SNW is Discovery 2.0 because Hammer is now the Airiam of Discovery.
I see nothing in common except that both died.
I find it badly hilarious that Spock in this Nu trek TV show era, has ''mourned'' the loss of two characters he was barely close too.
It's almost like Spock is more empathetic and caring than he lets on.
