Having watched the first two episodes on Netflix last night (it's home in the rest of the world I believe), I wasn't so down on continuity as Kevin. Going forward with something like Trek is much easier than going backwards. TOS was a future from a sixties perspective, and you can't really do that in 2017.
My main criticism was the with the structure of the opening. Having not really read or seen much about Discovery, I didn't really know where they'd go with it. But it felt like the Klingon scenes were drawn out and slow, while the Federation scenes were bitty and jumped all over the place. Really odd. And it's fairly clear that the whole thing is going to essentially reset from the next episode(s). I also have a personal dislike of plot points built around mutinous characters. See, for example, just about any film set on a submarine. If you based your knowledge of US armed forces on TV and films alone, you'd think that they were the most ill-disciplined services in the world! The make-up and effects were both excellent, and while the dialogue was clunky in places, set-up episodes are hard to do, so I'll give them a pass until they get properly into their stride. It seems pretty clear that this Trek is going to be more serialised than most, so we'll see how it goes. I'm certainly intrigued enough to want to see where it's going. Will it settle down into alien planet of the week or really follow a heavily serialised structure as opposed to having a series arc? I think this must be the first "premium" drama I've watched for a while that had such clear commercial act-breaks, and an opening title sequence that has series regulars who, er, we've not actually seen yet. I'm so used to the new way of only listing actors actually in an episode (e.g. Game of Thrones), and not having such clunky cliff-hangers mid-action. Incidentally, Netflix also had the CBS All Access "After Trek" available. I had to bail on that very quickly. Just unwatchable. Adam On Tue, Sep 26, 2017 at 5:23 AM, Kevin M. <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Mon, Sep 25, 2017 at 8:09 PM, M-D November <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Although I did appreciate the liberal use of TOS SFX. >> >> No spoilers, but having watched the first episode, the only thing that in > any way relates to Star Trek are those sound effects and the names of the > alien races. As a pilot episode for a sci-fi series that isn't connected to > Star Trek, it was OK (better than Orville). But as canonical Trek, it was > bitterly disappointing. > > What is regarded as the least successful of the Trek TV shows was the > Enterprise prequel. For them to attempt another prequel, they needed to > connect the dots, bridge the gap, or whatever other metaphor is suitable. > In this, they failed. As with damned near every rebooted TV franchise over > the last 20 years, it would have been better as a standalone entity. > > I've no need to pay to stream a poorly thought out concept, even if the > effects are nifty, and even if the sound effects are familiar. > > -- > Kevin M. (RPCV) > > -- > -- > TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "TV or Not TV" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "TVorNotTV" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
