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| Howard_Casto:
Yeah I was afraid this would happen. Star Trek Discovery just isn't very good. They seem to have mixed both the worst of the JJ films and the worst of the tv shows to combine into a ball of awful. The production values of the show are dramatically increased, almost movie quality, but they ruined it by insisting of shooting every shot at a weird angle, lighting all of the interesting stuff poorly, and over-designing all the ships and costumes till it looks like bad Michael Bay cgi. Oh and now everybody communicates via Star Wars holograms, even though this series takes place BEFORE Kirk and the gang. They did the same thing with the Klingons.... they're now bald, have vampire fangs and dress like Egyptian drag queens. Their ships, which have barely changed in style since TOS, now look like the aforementioned cgi cluster----smurfs---. And as bad as all of that is, the plot of the first episode is even worse. It starts with an opening shot of the Klingons, then some minor stuff happens and the Discovery crew find an unknown object in space. Could it be.... the Klingons? I mean I'm pretty sure it is, cause you had just shown them for no reason at the opening of the show. Then another scene with the Klingons explaining their plan. So they go back to the Discovery and the rest of the episode is them speculating on the plan THAT WE ALREADY KNOW. Dear god, it's like the writers completely forgot about the viewer's perspective. I mean if the scenes would have been more interesting I could see it, but as I explained before, most scenes, especially the action scenes and exterior space shots are dark and poorly lit, so it was dull as hell. It took a full 45 min episode to have one thing happen. What happened would have normally taken up the first 2 minutes on a typical TNG episode. Maybe it's just a bad pilot, so I'll at least give the next episode (where hopefully something actually happens) a try, but thus far, the Orville, which is technically a parody of Star Trek, is doing better Star Trek than the official outing. |
| opt2not:
Uh oh, Howard doesn’t like it, someone responsible for this pilot better get fired or their pay cut. ::) |
| lilshawn:
I agree. I was a real next generation nerd back in the day... but this... was so overly dramatic and ridiculous. Like, You see an unknown object and instead of studying it, you send your 1st officer into space with a jet pack to damn near die of radiation? I can't imagine any captain ever making that decision unless it was a dire situation and it was needed to survive. This already seems like all action and no substance. I didn't even watch the whole thing. |
| Howard_Casto:
Yeah it didn't make any sense... especially considering ships have probes they can launch.... if the probe doesn't come back or something bad happens THEN you start thinking about ways to get over there. And even the action wasn't that action packed... it was just sort of there. Did you notice how the crew kept using snarky sarcasm? It like they saw the Avengers and somehow thought that kind of banter suddenly fit in the Star Trek universe. You've gotta understand... I even managed to enjoy Enterprise after they got a couple of seasons in. This is just... bad... |
| opt2not:
I was fine with sending the first officer out there. It was mainly a plot point to force the encounter with the klingons, and show off some much needed exterior space shots, something that the Abrams style Star Trek has been doing. But I must admit, I didn't like the hologram usage in this. Leave that to Star Wars. Star Trek was always about using mainly on-screen video conferencing and I don't think the usage of hologram tech should have been introduced into this series in this way. Overall I felt the pilot was just "ok". Didn't blow me away, but I also didn't think it was bad. I didn't go into this expecting TNG or DS9, but I was expecting to see some sort of continuity with the newer Star Trek movies, which so far other than the lens flares and over abundance of dutch-angle camera shots is the only thing tied to the movies. I guess the Klingon design takes from the movies as well, but the interior of their ship felt like they were using some left-over set dressing from Quark's bar in DS9. The first officer is somewhat intriguing of a character, I would like to see her backstory, but she's the only one so far that seems interesting. I was disappointed to see Michelle Yeoh as a "special guest" in the opening credits. I was hoping that she'd be a primary character because I'm always happy to see more lead character Asian actors. Also, what's the story with the Daft Punk helmsman? I hope he starts droppin some mad beats on the bridge lol :lol I'll tune in a bit longer and give it a chance. When I first watched DS9 and Enterprise the first season was a crawl for me, but I eventually started enjoying it afterwards. I'm hoping that this picks up. The bigger issue is CBS's stream server plug. Wth are they thinking? Quality of their service suuuuucks, and I'm not going to pay $6/month for one show I'm on the fence about when they don't have any other programming that's even remotely interesting. I just found it annoying that they're pushing episode 2 tonight on their service, like a drug-dealer giving you the "first hit for free". It's not that great of a pilot to hook people that easily. Surely they must know everyone is out there pirating episode 2 now... |
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