What do people think of SNW (spoiler free please)

[Noname Given]

That's a sticker on the front cover.
I was referring to the one from "SlashFilm" (is "SlashFilm" anything like slash fiction?)

I guess the wasn't enough to indicate I knew which comment you took issue with.

 

[ScottJ85]

The one peeve I had was casting a scrawny Asian actor to play Chief Kyle, played by a tall white Celtic dude in TOS and movies. Frankly that really annoyed me. I had no issue with the actor who played Robert April, great actor btw, but that character was never seen on TOS just one animated show. Kyle was a semi-regular for 20 years.

That didn’t really bother me all that much. Star Trek has always played fast and loose with its own continuity anyway.

 

[AmandaSmith]

I think the season 2 trailer is taking too damn long!

 

[CorporalClegg]

I think you're right.

 

[cooleddie74]

Make with the teaser footage, Paramount. Do a solid for a fan, not a Changeling.

 

[DarKush]

I bought Season 1 on Blu-Ray and have been looking at select episodes. It's not holding my attention the second go round really. It's pleasant but not exactly gripping. I liked the first season when I first saw it on Paramount Plus, but I wasn't raving over it. That said, I thought it was a better start than PIC and was better overall than DISCO's third and fourth seasons (I also like it better than PIC: Season 2). I am glad that CBS/Paramount took the positive fan reaction over Pike, Spock, and Number One in DISCO Season 2 and made a series, and overall, I thought the first season was a good start, but there's something hasn't quite gelled for me.

I like the actors a lot and the characters generally are all likable and most got some character development. I also like how they've combined arc and episodic storytelling. The production design is better than PIC (first two seasons anyway), though not as lavish as DISCO.

I think a series stuck between DISCO and TOS does limit storytelling potential. And while I've liked how they've handled many of the characters, I thought putting so many legacy characters on the series, limits what they can do with them. That said, the characters they picked were largely blank slates and there's a lot of backstory and so forth that can be explored.

I also felt sometimes that the attempts at lightness and humor were a bit forced, like Paramount/CBS was overcorrecting for the perceived darkness in PIC and DISCO.

 

[Mudd]

I've been rewatching the show this week - episodes at random (and how lovely to be able to watch individual stories in any order one pleases). Just watched "Memento Mori" last evening.

The show just gets better on rewatch. It's the best since the first couple of seasons of TOS, hands down.