Spoilers First Reviews

[Turtletrekker]

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[The Salt Umpire]

Well it was either that or making it look like an apple store. or a hotel lobby

I would have liked it to look like a starship bridge.

Also, did you know a cadet swallowed a comm badge?

They wasted time on that. the joke fell flat. Starfleet DOES only accept the best cadets, right? Those people don't swallow combadges.

Not anything good, no.

"Written by middle-aged people" is not the same thing.

BTVS was not written by adolescents, but in no way did it embrace Giles as a truth-telling character due to his maturity and experience in moments of conflict with Buffy or her younger friends. He was right sometimes when they were wrong, but that was a matter of narrative happenstance, not his narrative role.

"We can learn so much from young people" is arguably observant, but it's only said by olds.

Who are portrayed in SFA as fairly reliable guardrails against the kids' hijinks getting out of hand, which is the way we like to think of ourselves. Look, another "teachable moment" for the rebels!

SFA patronizes youth as fully as any previous iteration of the franchise.

I'm fine with YA...when it's well written. Wednesday, Titans, Stranger Things. Those were better written, certainly.
This was not. Explosions, scenery chewing space baddie from the past, chaotic...what about all of that was new?

I stand by my Five vote for S1 E1.

 

[FredH]

As for the “haters”: To quote Tawny Newsome from the Blue Carpet event the other day: “I am excited for the fans to dissect absolutely everything that they hate [about Starfleet Academy]. They will do that because it is a Star Trek rite of passage and we know y'all are going to do it and you're allowed to do it because that is your right as fans.”

The thing is — the one time I actually was a hater (Section 31), I felt no need or desire to dissect anything about it: as I saw it, it was dreadful, so what point would there be in going over the details? For me, dissection only makes sense for productions I basically like or at least find interesting, and therefore want to discuss.

 

[FredH]

They wasted time on that. the joke fell flat. Starfleet DOES only accept the best cadets, right? Those people don't swallow combadges.

See, I’d imagine the one-cadet-per-planet thing is centuries gone. After the Burn, what’s left of Starfleet probably needs anyone it can get.

 

[Turtletrekker]

As pilots go, I put it right up there next to Emissary and Broken Bow.

 

[bdub76]

As pilots go, I put it right up there next to Emissary and Broken Bow.

How does it compare to The 100? That's the last science fiction show I watched with "kids."

 

[Turtletrekker]

Never watched it.

 

[Fateor]

See, I’d imagine the one-cadet-per-planet thing is centuries gone. After the Burn, what’s left of Starfleet probably needs anyone it can get.

That's been gone since the Dominion War.

After that Starfleet started putting up recruitment booths.

 

[Firebird]

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Jessie nailed it in her analysis.