Just wanted to say that I've found Discovery to be a huge disappointment. I wanted to like it, and I do at least like the special FX and the fixed design of the ship.
But it's just bad. Like the monologues, the dialog and pretty much any time a character is moving their mouth. Watching it one gets the sense that the writers want the viewer to feel the same way that the protagonists feel, but there's just nothing charming about them. The most compelling character so far is Lorca, as he seems to be the only one who's truly competent.
Whether it's the failures of logic (Starfleet and the Klingons really just let an advanced cloaking device just sit there for six months?) or the lack of pacing (Lorca's mission to save the dilithium colony was supposed to be on a countdown but nothing ever felt urgent) or the focus almost solely on a protagonist who's so clearly deficient and far from her description (played up as hypercompetent but folds under pressure and makes poor decisions), it's just not working.
It's not too bad to have to sit out a season, but the problem is that while this gets made we're not getting quality projects. It looks like we won't get another film until Shatner passes away, so all we have are reruns. Well, reruns and the Orville.
Ta ta for now. Hope it works out next time.
But it's just bad. Like the monologues, the dialog and pretty much any time a character is moving their mouth. Watching it one gets the sense that the writers want the viewer to feel the same way that the protagonists feel, but there's just nothing charming about them. The most compelling character so far is Lorca, as he seems to be the only one who's truly competent.
Whether it's the failures of logic (Starfleet and the Klingons really just let an advanced cloaking device just sit there for six months?) or the lack of pacing (Lorca's mission to save the dilithium colony was supposed to be on a countdown but nothing ever felt urgent) or the focus almost solely on a protagonist who's so clearly deficient and far from her description (played up as hypercompetent but folds under pressure and makes poor decisions), it's just not working.
It's not too bad to have to sit out a season, but the problem is that while this gets made we're not getting quality projects. It looks like we won't get another film until Shatner passes away, so all we have are reruns. Well, reruns and the Orville.
Ta ta for now. Hope it works out next time.
