Post by Shenguin on Feb 5, 2018 20:43:02 GMT
The main take home moral messages of the story so far seem to be:
1) Right-wing patriotism is bad, if it's done by bad people.
2) It's a bit mean not to forgive domestic abusers if they have a good excuse.
3) Gay black men get killed off early. I guess this is progress, as the usual TV / film trope is just for black men to get killed off early.
It's TV of the HBO era, clearly: expensive and with outstanding production values. But the dialogue lacks spark, and the plot twists are insulting. It's like every time the writers had an idea about what might make a shocking twist, they it in without a care for how ridiculous it might be, or how it might colour the viewer's perception of what has already gone. For example, Captain Lorca was a genuinely interesting character operating without moral absolutes, right up until he was revealed to be evil. Now he's just evil, and boring. And, as a viewer, I've been tricked into being interested in him, when he's not interesting. That's a bad plot twist; there was no sense suddenly realising that the twist was inevitable and I should have foreseen it, it was just shit, and apparently done with the cheapest of motives.
The science is no better than previous incarnations, but, in fairness, probably not a whole lot worse either. The magic space mushrooms are still fucking shit though.
Its one saving grace is the quality of the acting, which, Captain Jean-Luc aside, is probably the best that Star Trek has ever been blessed with.
1) Right-wing patriotism is bad, if it's done by bad people.
2) It's a bit mean not to forgive domestic abusers if they have a good excuse.
3) Gay black men get killed off early. I guess this is progress, as the usual TV / film trope is just for black men to get killed off early.
It's TV of the HBO era, clearly: expensive and with outstanding production values. But the dialogue lacks spark, and the plot twists are insulting. It's like every time the writers had an idea about what might make a shocking twist, they it in without a care for how ridiculous it might be, or how it might colour the viewer's perception of what has already gone. For example, Captain Lorca was a genuinely interesting character operating without moral absolutes, right up until he was revealed to be evil. Now he's just evil, and boring. And, as a viewer, I've been tricked into being interested in him, when he's not interesting. That's a bad plot twist; there was no sense suddenly realising that the twist was inevitable and I should have foreseen it, it was just shit, and apparently done with the cheapest of motives.
The science is no better than previous incarnations, but, in fairness, probably not a whole lot worse either. The magic space mushrooms are still fucking shit though.
Its one saving grace is the quality of the acting, which, Captain Jean-Luc aside, is probably the best that Star Trek has ever been blessed with.
