When individuals cite other Treks as being better.
Spoilers Star Trek: Discovery 2x02 - "New Eden"
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Hell, they had to replace half the crew after an inadvertent screening of Species in the holodeck that very week. How was Data to know how deadly H.R. Giger-lite imagery was to the 24th Century human mind.
Bunch of softies. 
Damn Skinnies are everywhere.
Who's to sat they weren't?
Anyhow, I think getting good actors, like the guy playing Jacob, is more important that trying to cast everyone as "multiracial".
Very well put, I agree with this 100%.Fair enough. Again, a lot depends on whether the criticism actually compares it to the earlier shows or not.
If you want to say, "the science in that episode was sloppy," that's a perfectly valid criticism that, yes, doesn't require you to acknowledge every bit of sloppy science in every previous STAR TREK project.
But if you say "DISCO is way more sloppy about science than classic Trek," then you're inviting comparisons and counter-examples.
Then again, if you want to argue that we should hold DISCO to a higher standard than previous Treks . . . well, yeah, that's where things get interesting when it comes to comparisons. It's not a double standard, I admit, if someone admits up front that they're holding DISCO to a higher standard because it's 2019 and TV is more sophisticated these days.
As opposed to insisting that the "STAR TREK never did THAT in the good old days" . . . aside from the seventeen times they did.
As for May, Tilly's dead school acquaintance, I agree that the actresses delivery felt off, but I actually thought this was done on purpose to give a clue about her supernatural nature. I kind of liked her instantly, to be honest, and I hope they'll bring her back.
Someone needs to explain to me how it was funny. Because I did not laugh during his death and I keep seeing this assertion yet don't recognize it in the material at all.
Remember the lawyer in Jurassic Park who no one likes and then he's sitting on the toilet when the Tyrannosaurus Rex shows up? It's like that.
Didn't laugh then either. It's not funny.
No, it's not funny. But it was meant to be.
Says who? Seriously, someone explain this to me that the people who framed this scene intended it to be funny. This is not making sense whatsoever thus far.
I doubt the writers thought anyone would roll on the floor laughing, but I, too, got the impression they were playing Connelly's death for smirks. The fact that he died smack in the middle of being a smartass once more is one thing that lets me think they did do it on purpose. Trying to explain how this is funny is like explaining a joke; it just makes it not funny.
I didn't see that as 'jokey'. Connelly was presented as arrogant. His arrogance was what got him killed. It was a lesson. A young adult level lesson in its portrayal, but a lesson nonetheless that overconfidence in dangerous situations leads to bad consequences.
I liked the moment when Tilly runs out of sickbay to go to the bridge and there's the momentary pause where she forgets which direction to go, turns around out of sight of the camera and awkwardly runs in the opposite direction. No comical music, no sound effects, just a silent pause and she runs the other way.
That worked for me. I audibly laughed.
That worked for me. I audibly laughed.
I think they were aiming more for schadenfreude, than actual belly laughs. For me, it was a satisfying fictional scene due to my own personal experiences dealing with serial mansplainers IRL. Even my son enjoyed the moment, because he understood how much of a reckless douche Connolly was being to both Burnham and Pike. It was definitely a lesson in hubris and arrogance. Just like Landry's death was.
YMMV.
YMMV.
That was an ad lib by Frakes and Wiseman.I liked the moment when Tilly runs out of sickbay to go to the bridge and there's the momentary pause where she forgets which direction to go, turns around out of sight of the camera and awkwardly runs in the opposite direction. No comical music, no sound effects, just a silent pause and she runs the other way.
That worked for me. I audibly laughed.
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