It’s not reminiscent of it at all to me. I guess it’s what they call cognitive dissonance. If Trump is a right-wing Nazi and pees on Russian hookers, etc, etc, I guess you see Trump everywhere.
Thanks - That isn’t bad in any way. Like many decent shows it depicts how modern people see the world, and what fears permate society at the given time period.
Overall, I really liked the first season. The last two episodes have suffered a lot from “wrap-it-up-itis,” especially the end of the Klingon war. “Unite the houses, or fall victim to the power of my Palm Pilot which I promise is connected to small planet-destroying bomb!” Deus Ex Technobabble.
But that last shot of the episode was worth the journey! Closing music rocked too.
So they are all out on CBS access now, and I can sub for 1 month and then quit?
:)
I think it was an extremely strong first season. Probably the strongest first season of a Trek (with the Original Series being the only real competition). Great arc and relatively low deus/tech ex machina, for a Trek.
This is my opinion too. Best Trek first season so far. Hard to sustain, but I am hopeful they can develop a good multi season plot in this.
Agreed, this is the best story of a Star Trek series ever for a first season. Some strong acting, but also some poor acting mixed in there…makes it barely miss the mark as the best trek season 1 overall IMO.
I’m not at all sure they can sustain it, but it they can and find their acting groove…could become the best trek ever! That’s a long shot though. This feels like it could have been a one trick pony…
What’s your vote for best?
A little uneven of a finale but still a solid first season overall which is a huge break from what Trek has traditionally been. Well see what the show runners can do with a full off season to think up what they want to do story wise.
One would think so, but I’m not a subscriber so I don’t know for sure.
Yep, all 15 are up in CBS All Access.
After Trek is fun, too – some good background from the actors, producers, and writers.
LOL, I still love watching the original series (remastered)…I can watch one now and completely be engrossed in it… despite seeing them each a dozen times over the years.
Final Episode made me happy. Sadly it all felt like they could have used a few more episodes to do it properly. I have no clue how they will carry on the concept of season 1 with another season. But I am hopeful because after they pissed me off greatly they managed to get me back.
I’m glad you guys are enjoying it, but I just don’t see it. We plowed through the last four episodes, and I find it to be incredibly stupid - even “for Trek”.
No one seemed to act in any way fitting the situations they were in, making terrible decisions, and stuff generally resolved at the convenience of the plot. I liked some of the twists, but they didn’t really deliver on their potential. Some of the reveals and all of the resolutions felt to me like they were squandered potential, lacking any real impact or weight. I get that being pumped full of spores might do stuff to someone, but I felt like Anthony Rapp’s character just changed personality all of a sudden, in a way that didn’t feel like earned character development.
On the acting bit I think Jason Isaacs (channeling his inner John Ham) improved a bit. The best one in the cast is probably Jayne Brook as the Admiral.
But anyways, this is becoming very negative. The show had some things it did well, and there’s a lot of potential. I’ll stick with it and hope they play to their strengths. A lot of shows have had a rough first season that has improved on later viewings after more payoff down the line.
Regarding the various consistency errors with previous shows I don’t really care, but my money is on the show being set in a different universe than the TOS/TNG one.
Pretty much my take. Characters were never developed beyond being pawns to whatever plot device was necessary, no consistency and no believable agency. They also always seemed to do really stupid things on a consistent basis.
I’ve been watching it with two friends since the beginning and they both really enjoyed it, whilst acknowledging that most of my criticisms were valid.
I agree with many of the above complaints. But I don’t think it’s that’s dissimilar to most Trek series (I have the rose tinted glasses off). In particular I think that the acting in this is, while not good, much better than in any Trek I remember.
Yeah, agreed, the characters have done some amazingly dumb stuff (like, every decision around either Georgiou), but I still enjoyed the heck out of it.
That final bit with the Enterprise should have been way more mysterious. Like, just a small ship onscreen, barely recognizable: “It’s the Enterprise!” Instead of the swooping nose-to-nose kiss. Drama, people!
Did we need the Star Wars ceremony at the end? Meh.
Overall I enjoyed the ride, but the lack of ‘rules’ really bothered me in general. ie, you can hail anyone anywhere, ships seemingly are all over space all the time, no real time to transit regardless of the method, you can find and snatch ships all over the place in warp, no explanation of logistics or fleet strengths, no feedback as to how important an individual ship is in the war, you can take a beating in one scene but be destroyed by three torpedoes in the next, the war is all but lost and Klingons are genocidal killers, but Starfeet is shocked by small casualties (relative to what I imagine must be in the tens of billions), the cloaking device is the key to Klingon victory but no real change once they come back with the fix, etc etc. Basically every contextual detail is unimportant as long as they can be shoehorned into the plot.
I could put up with almost all of the show’s idiosyncrasies and actually enjoyed quite a few. However, the ceremony really annoyed the crap out of me. It wasn’t their desire to have one. It wasn’t the very Star Wars-looking approach (they’d done that in the recent Trek movies, after all). It was Burnham’s need to give a preamble and then punctuate each person’s award with her own commentary. I wouldn’t have even minded that if it was an internal monologue, but it wasn’t; she was speaking to the leadership of the Federation, almost like she was lecturing them. I mean, your bosses are commending you and your crew mates—of whom you’re not even in command—and you feel obligated to explain to them the ways of Starfleet while they’re doing it? Just seemed like a totally weird thing to do.
Agreed - that was stupid. I apologize in advance, but I found it very american (Tv style American, that is) to have that kind of ceremony at the end, but its nice to hear you guys also found it weird.
LOVED the show, a bit of a weak ending, but still. I look very much forward to the next season!