On Sat, Jan 26, 2019 at 6:24 PM Adam Bowie <[email protected]> wrote:
> I think we've been here before about Discovery being in an impossible > situation being an immediate prequel of TOS. Frankly, Pike extolling > something that might have sounded likely in 1966 but sounds old-fashioned > in 2019, is the least of anyone's worries. They're still going to have to > get rid of new propulsion system at some point and explain away why no > other subsequent Treks was able to use it. > I can’t agree with you. It is a worry. Either the original series is canonical or it isn’t. I’m not the one who decided a second prequel series was a good idea; it opens them up to exactly this sort of criticism and more. But more than just the chauvinistic comment (which from a storytelling standpoint was a horrible thing for them to abandon... imagine the sort of stories that could emerge from a character who basically feels like Archie Bunker helming a starship, especially a starship with so many strong female and alien characters), Pike wasn’t a fun guy. He was somber, serious, contemplative. It was easier to make the character more jovial because they seem to be embarking on another very dark story arc and needed a lighter character in command, so they just changed it. They control what is canon, so they have the right to do whatever they want with the character, but it opens them up to criticism from Trekkies. > I think you just have to park all that and enjoy the new series... or not. > I’ll take “or not”... if it was on free media I’d probably hate-watch it the way Dave S hate-watches all things Sorkin, but I don’t need to pay CBS to do that. I’m in Nebraska... lots of things here I can dislike for free. I will try to hold out hope for the Picard series, despite the same “creative” team being behind it, it has a chance to expand the universe of Trek instead of sinking inward into its past. And while Michelle Yeoh is a favorite, a series about Section 31 sounds even less Trek-like than Discovery. > Personally, I'm still enjoying this more than most. Episode 2 feels very > old-Trek with an away party going down to a planet in disguise. Yes, > there's an ongoing story arc, but that's to be expected. Of course, this > side of the pond we're lucky that we don't need a whole other TV > subscription to essentially watch just this one show. It's on Netflix here > thankfully. > > > Adam > > On Sat, Jan 26, 2019 at 5:44 AM Kevin M. <[email protected]> wrote: > >> It was free on the CBS All Access YouTube channel so I watched. It is >> better than it was when I stopped watching last season, but that's not >> saying much. There wasn't much to the Pike character in the original Trek >> pilot, but this Pike character was nothing like what little there was in >> the pilot (i.e.- in the pilot, Pike remarked he wasn't used to having women >> on the bridge, but didn't balk at Discovery's nearly all female bridge >> crew, supposedly 9 or 10 years earlier). Frankly, Discovery Pike is closer >> to early Kirk, but whatever. Still not paying for All Access to watch more >> episodes. >> >> Free on YouTube (limited time only) >> >> https://youtu.be/8rvMqRrtmkY >> >> -- >> Kevin M. (RPCV) >> >> -- >> 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. >> > -- > 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. > -- Kevin M. (RPCV) -- 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.
