Not really my style to focus on things that bother me...except the Flames (please note sports-specific reference, likely my first for CP), but I painfully rewatched seasons 2+3 of Discovery last month, and the show ranking posts from this week have reawakened my unsuppressed repugnance and there's no better place to vomit than this thread:
I gave Discovery a lot of leeway in first season cause for whatever confounding reason Star Trek shows need a really long runway to get off the ground. Then in S2 the thing that really carried the show was Captain Cullen Bohannon and Spock. But season three was absolute garbage - and what's worse is it set itself up to be something different and exciting. However by the end of the season every other scene was slapping us over the head with a social message. Great, I get it: diversity, IDIC, yadda-yadda, but any sort of salient story lines, character development, or inertia kept getting trampled
And as for the characters, aside from Burnham, I would have thought I'd have learned, well, *any* other character's name by now, but they're just so utterly uninteresting and unmemorable, or downright f'n annoying that I havent
I always thought Voyager was the worst, but even that show had some good episodes, and a handful of great ones. No episode of Discovery--nothing--stands out as a Top 10, let alone a Top 100 episode of Star Trek
Not really sure where my ire is to be directed--writing, direction, acting, casting, the studio--the show was just a miss on so many levels
finally, I'm honestly surprised Discovery was renewed. But of course I'll tune in next season cause I hate myself. Will also watch the Flames this fall cause I really hate myself. Was thinking I might watch Picard again, but I just don't know how much I can take
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