That's when the influence of the fired showrunners will be gone and I was wondering if you think we will see a drastic change in tone to a point where you can clearly tell new people are running the show or do you think the show will stay somewhat consistent with both the 1st and even first 5 episodes of season 2. What are you expectations?
Me I think we might see even more humor come into the show. Maybe even more action. The show might truly become more like the Kelvin Universe. Whether that ends up being a good or bad thing if it is unknown. I like the Kelvin Universe so I wouldn't mind it but I am kind of fine with what we have seen so far this season as well.
Jason
Thing is: Alex Kurtzman probably got more hands-on involved after they were fired. But Kurtzman was also the
director of episode 2x01. So if anything, I think the show will be closer to that premiere episode again.
My concern isn't so much tonal as it is character/theme/plot related – do the new showrunners have a clear idea where the story was supposed to go, or at least a good idea where they'd like to take it, or are they running in blind like seems to have happened in season 1? I don't want any stupid MU Lorca shit this season.
That's the real million-dollar question.
Right now, I'm not seeing a clear direction that red-angel arc takes, it's more teases than actual plot happening right now.
Overall, I would probably be much more okay if this arc turns out to be mediocre or badly plotted - because it's still an original idea, and the journey so far is pretty entertaining - wheras a big, galaxy-spanning war that's in stark contrast to canon - with all that ramifications, that
really should have been better thought out.
For the red angels - if they don't do something offensive with it (which at the moment I don't think they will), I'm kinda' okay if it struggles a little bit. I'm concerned about their complete rewrite of Spock's character backstory though - this part really needs to be resolved clever, otherwise it'll really hurt a good show.
