Spoilers General Disco Chat Thread

[Tuskin38]

So I looked up the Numeris numbers for Discovery (they're like the Canadian equivalent of Nielsen ratings)
http://en.numeris.ca/media-and-events/tv-weekly-top-30

These reports capture the top 30 shows that air on conventional and specialty television networks each week. They're ranked by Average Minute Audience (the average number of viewers, age 2+, watching the program during any given minute).

Where I wrote 'under #' means it didn't show up on the list and that number is the number of the views of the #30 slot.

Just to note, every episode except episode 1 aired on a premium cable channel in Canada. Episode 1 aired on a public channel while Episode aired on the premium channel.

This also includes if a recording of it was watched within 7 days of airing.

1: 2.2
2: 1.2
3: 1.4
4: Under 974k
5: 1.2
6: 1.3
7: 1.2
8: 1.79
9: 1.1
10: 1.2
11: 1
12: Under 900k
13: 971k
14: 938k
15: Under 927k

 

[Lord Garth]

Looks like the ratings held as steady as a first season show would after the premiere. Looks pretty good.

The other day, a new friend and I were talking about The Neverending Story, a film I haven't seen since around the time it came out, and that I still need to re-watch as an adult. Somehow we then got to talking about sci-fi shows and special effects on sci-fi shows before a certain point... and that's when I found out they were a Star Trek fan, which then led me to ask if they'd seen Discovery yet. "No". Then I said, "If you like DS9, you'll like Discovery" and I got them interested.

So I potentially converted someone to Disco.

I meanwhile have been converted to thinking about learning karate. I was wondering if I'm too old to learn it since I'm 39 but apparently there are other adults who take classes too. The sucky thing is I'm not as flexible, physically, as I was even a few years ago. But I'm still in pretty good shape for someone who's pushing 40. Maybe this will loosen the joints...

... and take focus off all the chicanery.

 

[Burning Hearts of Qo'nos]

I meanwhile have been converted to thinking about learning karate. I was wondering if I'm too old to learn it since I'm 39 but apparently there are other adults who take classes too. The sucky thing is I'm not as flexible, physically, as I was even a few years ago. But I'm still in pretty good shape for someone who's pushing 40. Maybe this will loosen the joints...

... and take focus off all the chicanery.

You should do it! Absolutely try to learn something at that or any age; you've got like 50 years ahead of all kinds of stuff to learn!

For me at 34, I wanna take up fencing. I've been wanting to do it ever since I saw We'll Always Have Paris the first time as a kid. Working two jobs at the moment and haven't found the time.

 

[Lord Garth]

As of today I've been here for 19 years. Well, not true, I barely posted for 10 of them. But still.

Things have definitely moved forward. Star Trek took place in the 24th Century and the music I was listening to was Grunge. Now Star Trek takes place in the 23rd Century and it's all about Disco... wait a minute...

 

[Roundabout]

I'm excited, as I always have been and always will be, that there's more Star Trek. I really don't care about Jean-Luc Picard though. Probably one of the most frustrating and eye-rolling characters in the franchise at times.

That said, I will absolutely watch every episode.

Will we have to listen to more lecturing and speechifying by the great Jean-Luc?

Slap the Star Trek label on it, and I guess I will gladly sit through it.

I meanwhile have been converted to thinking about learning karate. I was wondering if I'm too old to learn it since I'm 39 but apparently there are other adults who take classes too. The sucky thing is I'm not as flexible, physically, as I was even a few years ago. But I'm still in pretty good shape for someone who's pushing 40. Maybe this will loosen the joints...

... and take focus off all the chicanery.

From what I have observed of dojos, you are probably going to be, by far, the oldest student in a beginners class. Maybe not. But be prepared to be surrounded kids, and to be outmaneuvered and outclassed by kids less than half your age when you spar against them.

 

[Locutus of Bored]

I meanwhile have been converted to thinking about learning karate. I was wondering if I'm too old to learn it since I'm 39 but apparently there are other adults who take classes too. The sucky thing is I'm not as flexible, physically, as I was even a few years ago. But I'm still in pretty good shape for someone who's pushing 40. Maybe this will loosen the joints...

From what I have observed of dojos, you are probably going to be, by far, the oldest student in a beginners class. Maybe not. But be prepared to be surrounded kids, and to be outmaneuvered and outclassed by kids less than half your age when you spar against them.

He'll dominate the dojo.

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[Tuskin38]

Kenneth Mitchell (Kol) said at Vegas that he'll be back. Though unless Kol cheated death, he might be playing another character.

 

[Jinn]

Kenneth Mitchell (Kol) said at Vegas that he'll be back. Though unless Kol cheated death, he might be playing another character.

Or it's a flashback.

 

[Tuskin38]

Or it's a flashback.

Also possible.

 

[Jinn]

Also possible.

Or time travel.

 

[Tuskin38]

That seems less likely.

 

[Jinn]

Or a mirror/alternate universe version of Kol.

 

[Nerys Myk]

He's playing Kol's brother Ch'Ar.

 

[Tuskin38]

Mary Chieffo (L'Rell) said she had to re-record like 99% of her lines because of the prosthetics.

I'm watching panels that some people managed to actually record from Vegas.

When Jason Issacs was brought on they had only just decided that Lorca was going to be from the MU, but they didn't have any idea of his endgame, Issacs was part of the discussion of what Lorca is doing, and how he would be doing it.

He claims the writers room is full of a Trek fans and they would argue about things for days.

 

[Jadeb]

The show seems very fannish, so I believe him.

 

[Jinn]

In my fannish opinion season 1 should have just been the war that eventually gets solved with massive help from Lorca. Then season 2 starts with the mirror trip and then everyone has to deal with the fact that the guy who massively helped the Federation was a real douche and mass murderer and all that jazz.

 

[Vger23]

The show seems very fannish, so I believe him.

I love fannish so sign me up.

Fans bitch when non-fans write for Trek and fans bitch when fans write for Trek.

No win situation...Only constant is the bitching.

 

[Vger23]

In my fannish opinion season 1 should have just been the war that eventually gets solved with massive help from Lorca. Then season 2 starts with the mirror trip and then everyone has to deal with the fact that the guy who massively helped the Federation was a real douche and mass murderer and all that jazz.

My guess is they couldn't get Isaacs to commit for more than one full season...and they had no guarantee of a second at all.

But, all things being equal, I agree.

 

[Jinn]

My guess is they couldn't get Isaacs to commit for more than one full season...and they had no guarantee of a second at all.

Yeah, that's a good point I hadn't really considered.

 

[Jadeb]

I love fannish so sign me up.

Fans bitch when non-fans write for Trek and fans bitch when fans write for Trek.

No win situation...Only constant is the bitching.

Yes, people like different things. They’ll never please everyone. Personally, I like some fan service, but I want more than that. I can enjoy both a deep dive on the Klingons and a trip to the MU, but I wish they had saved one for later so that there was more room for new ideas.