Finally Watching Discovery - Was I Supoosed to Hate This?
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I really thought I was going to like Saru in the run-up to the show. But the character ended up falling flat for me. You're right, they really screwed Lorca up.
Pretty much right where you are now. Bought the Blu-ray after having not watched previously, four episodes in, really liking it, can't figure what people's problem is.
It's not a regurgitation of the same worn-out crap Rick Berman has been feeding them for two decades.
Humans tend to reject things that are different.
Did you read some comments out there about The Last Jedi? These people have serious issues and make me very afraid. I could justify similar feelings for a movie only if you are a black person living in the 1915 and have just watched The Birth of a Nation.
I wish I didn't.
There's usually a disconnect between their online and real life personas. They tend to use cyberspace as an outlet for unresolved frustrations. So when you see a mean and abusive fanboy in a comments section somewhere, chances are you're dealing with a sad loser who never once stood up for themself in the real world.
I don't doubt it. The problem is these people can do a lot of a damage even if you don't meet them in the real world. Ask the victims of Gamergate or the Jar Jar actor who was almost driven to suicide...
Well, if you prefer, there are the cases of Kelly Marie Tran or Daisy Ridley.
Anyway, just to answer the OP's question: no, if you consider yourself a decent person and a well adjusted and functional human being, you are not supposed to hate a escapist piece of fiction...
In my part of the world actresses have been called whores and threatened with rape in social media. I don't even follow local Twittersphere any more, it's become too much.
There are numerous examples of celebrities, especially female, being heinously cyber-bullied. Rebecca Black, for one, was dragged through living hell. People literally sent her emails saying she should commit suicide, and this was when she was still a kid.
It's the first television Star Trek since DS9 that doesn't feel like a faded xerox of an outmoded storytelling formula and style.
Maybe a little unfair to Season 3 of Enterprise, which was tonally fairly unique by Star Trek standards.
Eh, wasn't impressed. Credit for trying, I guess? But the whole thing still felt bloodless to me, and Bakula was a fatally terrible choice for a Star Trek lead, such that nothing they ever wrote for Archer seemed convincing.
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For me Enterprise went wrong right from the start with that horrible opening theme, the show itself was ok but I found the whole Xindi storyline to be poor at best, the Temporal Cold War and Romulan storylines was much better though.
The opening theme was the best part of the show.
Oh. And Porthos.
Oh. And Porthos.
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