I want to change my vote. 7 to … 4.
Last night, I was like, Meh, it was ok.
Now: time to face facts.
The emperor has no clothes. This is just shite.
Dark, recycled trope after trope. A poster child for a culture in decay that can’t do new things.
DSC S1 is looking better and better, since it was kinda tryin to be new. (Except SPOCK’s SISTER!)
Where to start?
The end. Ooooh, a big ship. WITH PINCERS!! Bad vampire voice: “Ooooh, dats scahry!” Come on, people. It works so well in the original fx of Corbomite, PLUS it was a truly alien contraption. Weird, glowing ping pong balls with a baby inside. Oh well, pincers in space are scary. I, myself wouldn’t have known it was eeeevil without those pincers. Next.
A BIG HUGE DESTRUCTION happens. Gosh, they can do fx! What was it? A building on a planet. Why do I care? Did I see one human? Was there someone there I cared about? Just rando huge kaboom I’’ve seen a million times.
AND . . . It’s the same damn plot this franchise keeps using. Mystery big bad destructo thing that must be figured out and stopped.
I think I’m done with this show already. Waitin for more PRO.
Oh, and then Wil squeeing all over himself, and everybody proud they turned Bev into DieHard Bev. Pew pew pew. Alien. I saw Alien in like, 1978? But we all know it is stultifying for women to be cast in the caregiver role! Except when we have established her character for years. It’s ok to be a mom and a caregiver, and we now have many female roles that are fighters (Michael, Fenris 7, Raffi). But we are all badasses now.
“But any starfleet person is trained in everything. And it was so kewl she was a BADASS.” I’m so tired of “badass = good.” I’m tired of our whole shitty culture. Trek is the only modern media I watch and so much of it is just … not … that good.