Observations on 'Strange New Worlds'

[naosu]

So... when I'm watching Strange New Worlds... they make you want to hate the Vulcans. Its kind of lame and a turn off. They do this... every time there's a vulcan come onto the set, the first thing that happens is they tell you all the humans stink badly. And make a big deal about it. Then they make it feel like they are telling you humans are all trash and beneath them. HUGE pride factor and snootiness.

I don't think they realize they are messing up the show when they do this.

They are making the audience hate space elves. Its stupid.

There's tons of other ways they could work that instead of going that direction.

 

[CharlesEBrown]

Hadn't noticed that. Did notice them almost rehabilitating T'Pring before she needs to be rehabilitated. But then I only managed to watch all but one or two episodes of S1. Only one TV has access to Paramount Plus so have to watch when the wife isn't home or stuff she wants to watch and, after four episodes of SNW, she was bored.

 

[naosu]

Hadn't noticed that. Did notice them almost rehabilitating T'Pring before she needs to be rehabilitated. But then I only managed to watch all but one or two episodes of S1. Only one TV has access to Paramount Plus so have to watch when the wife isn't home or stuff she wants to watch and, after four episodes of SNW, she was bored.

I hear ya. That's how it is at our house too. Other family members don't want to share the remote haha.

I would really like to see them get some new writers for many shows we see on TV. SNW has potential, but some of the writing is dumb. There's some episodes that kick ass and that you are like wow, I want to see more like that. But I didn't like the uh... musical comedy episode, that one and a few others its like... what the heck are they thinking...

Thanks for talking with me a bit. :)

 

[CharlesEBrown]

I really want to get to the musical episode - done well those can be amazing (see The Magicians - especially the one in the final season - for examples, or, I've heard but not yet seen, the "Once More with Feeling" episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer). If done badly ... well Riverdale had about 50/50 rate with them - some great, some so cringeworthy I barely made it through....

There was one show a few years ago - I missed the final season of it, but IIRC the title was The Last Ship or close to that. It had a blasted pattern. One episode that was just so amazing you had to see the next one. The next one was OK but a letdown after the previous one. The next one was just bad. The next one was improving enough that you'd give it ONE more chance ... and it would start over with the sequence of Great/Good/Nearly Unwatchable/OK enough to give one more shot CONSISTENTLY for three seasons (four never hit the highs OR the lows of the previous ones and was just solid "OK with flashes of brilliance"). Interestingly enough, I found out that the first season was based on a series of novels written in the 90s - and the TV series did a great job updating the tech to 20 years later but the books were written by a former Naval commander and it showed there, while the series got almost all of the military elements so wrong that some of my ex-military friends watched it just to laugh at the mistakes)

 

[naosu]

I really want to get to the musical episode - done well those can be amazing (see The Magicians - especially the one in the final season - for examples, or, I've heard but not yet seen, the "Once More with Feeling" episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer). If done badly ... well Riverdale had about 50/50 rate with them - some great, some so cringeworthy I barely made it through....

There was one show a few years ago - I missed the final season of it, but IIRC the title was The Last Ship or close to that. It had a blasted pattern. One episode that was just so amazing you had to see the next one. The next one was OK but a letdown after the previous one. The next one was just bad. The next one was improving enough that you'd give it ONE more chance ... and it would start over with the sequence of Great/Good/Nearly Unwatchable/OK enough to give one more shot CONSISTENTLY for three seasons (four never hit the highs OR the lows of the previous ones and was just solid "OK with flashes of brilliance"). Interestingly enough, I found out that the first season was based on a series of novels written in the 90s - and the TV series did a great job updating the tech to 20 years later but the books were written by a former Naval commander and it showed there, while the series got almost all of the military elements so wrong that some of my ex-military friends watched it just to laugh at the mistakes)

Well said.

I didn't know that series was written way back then.

An Isekai version of the Last Ship might be a really interesting plot actually for some new story.