I have to agree, M E M. Star trek: Discovery is outstanding.
Explain yourself.
The first episode was painful enough. Heaven forbid subjecting myself to 4 of them. After experiencing the pretension and self-indulgence of the pilot, it's clear the tone was set: just another shitty millennial retcon. I think the only feather in its cap is the fact that the show HBO has titled "Watchmen" is even worse.
There's a reason that Kurtzmann is being skewered after STD, Picard, and Lower Decks. ViacomCBS is losing shit tons of money (which is cool), but it's at Star Trek's expense.
I thought I'd responded to this before, but the post isn't here.
Since I never watched the remainder of the episodes, I guess ultimately (even having both the first 2 seasons on DVD to watch wnenever I wanted) I didn't like the series enough to watch all the episodes. But I still think it's visually high-end and has some good twists and cliffhangers.
On the down side, yes, I have to agree that it's a bit overly "PC" with an exceptionally heavy ratio of female and minority characters, in the early episodes almost to the complete exclusion of white male characters. It was as if making that statement was more important to the series creators than the actual story, and it was a distraction from the actual story. And as I said before, it had many scenes that were too rapid, to the point that I had to frequently re-wind over and over to catch what was being said. Which to me is bad storytelling. While I still thought the story was interesting and provided a lot of dynamic characters and new concepts to explore, without my even realizing it and liking it enough that I intended to see the rest of the series, I ultimately bailed out. It just became too much of a chore to watch.
