As far as my personal interest in Discovery is concerned, the turning point was probably around the end of season 2 and early in season 3. Until then, I felt the show is uneven, but still has the potential to become good, once the creators figure out what works and what doesn't. After all, TNG and DS9 also had uneven first and second seasons, but then found their style.
But either Discovery found a style that's just not my cup of tea, or it hasn't really found a style. My impression is that none of the characters is convincing or likable, but the characters are contrived and contradictory, and real character development was replaced by a huge wave of superficial melodrama.
And there were a couple of things that really stood out: When that half-robot character was killed and the entire episode was just a huge melodrama about how Burnham and the crew mourn and miss that character, although *we had hardly ever seen this character before, so we had no emotional connection to that character whatsoever*. I was seriously asking myself if the authors were attempting to insult the audience?
Or when mirror Georgiou, an irredeemable genocidal Kelpian-eater of Adolf Hitler or Khan Singh caliber, who had constantly insulted everybody else, was suddenly mourned when she was gone -- What was I supposed to think? Imagine they had shown Kira mourning Gul Dukat's departure ...
But the apotheosis of silly, for me, was that whole "Red Angel" business, Burnham, compared to whom even Counselor Troi appears like a stable stoicist, depicted as a kind of holy figure with angel wings saving the universe, in a manner that would have been even campy by comic book standards.
By now, the show has dropped to the last spot #11 on my personal ranking of all Star Trek shows.
But by all means, if you like the show, good for you. Maybe it's just not my cup of tea.
But either Discovery found a style that's just not my cup of tea, or it hasn't really found a style. My impression is that none of the characters is convincing or likable, but the characters are contrived and contradictory, and real character development was replaced by a huge wave of superficial melodrama.
And there were a couple of things that really stood out: When that half-robot character was killed and the entire episode was just a huge melodrama about how Burnham and the crew mourn and miss that character, although *we had hardly ever seen this character before, so we had no emotional connection to that character whatsoever*. I was seriously asking myself if the authors were attempting to insult the audience?
Or when mirror Georgiou, an irredeemable genocidal Kelpian-eater of Adolf Hitler or Khan Singh caliber, who had constantly insulted everybody else, was suddenly mourned when she was gone -- What was I supposed to think? Imagine they had shown Kira mourning Gul Dukat's departure ...
But the apotheosis of silly, for me, was that whole "Red Angel" business, Burnham, compared to whom even Counselor Troi appears like a stable stoicist, depicted as a kind of holy figure with angel wings saving the universe, in a manner that would have been even campy by comic book standards.
By now, the show has dropped to the last spot #11 on my personal ranking of all Star Trek shows.
But by all means, if you like the show, good for you. Maybe it's just not my cup of tea.
