This covers the first two episodes only:
This is the most beautiful train wreck I have ever seen... but it still is a train wreck.
If you can get over an overuse of dutch angles, lens flares and don't expect much science in your fiction, it is a nice romp, but it isn't surely what most fans of the previous shows want. If I had to guess, this was originally intended as a TV show in the J. J. Abrams universe - it just feels like it. That being said, the visuals are stunningly beautiful and look like they belong in a movie. Star Trek: Discovery is downright the most amazing looking show I have seen. I don't even mind if the Klingons look different or that the aesthetics have changed.
However, apart from 'looking good' this series has little to offer. There isn't much story to find here, just one or two plot points happening intermingled with a series of flashbacks, half-way decent action scenes and CGI. It's something that feels like it would have been relegated to a pre-title scene in any other show. The little bits of plot Star Trek: Discovery has often times don't make much sense (or things outright 'shouldn't work that way') and most scenes seems to be constructed to show off how 'awesome' the main character (and the captain) is.
If one would tell me that the entire thing started out as a moderately entertaining fan-fiction - complete with Mary Sue-self- insert - I wouldn't be surprised. I couldn't connect with any of the characters, not Michael, not the Captain, not the Klingon Warchief. All other characters have already faded away from my memory - except Lt. Saru... and the "Daftpunkian".
( Seriously, what was that? I am more interested in what that robot in the background was, than how the story continues. )
However, I really hope this show improves as it goes on.
This is the most beautiful train wreck I have ever seen... but it still is a train wreck.
If you can get over an overuse of dutch angles, lens flares and don't expect much science in your fiction, it is a nice romp, but it isn't surely what most fans of the previous shows want. If I had to guess, this was originally intended as a TV show in the J. J. Abrams universe - it just feels like it. That being said, the visuals are stunningly beautiful and look like they belong in a movie. Star Trek: Discovery is downright the most amazing looking show I have seen. I don't even mind if the Klingons look different or that the aesthetics have changed.
However, apart from 'looking good' this series has little to offer. There isn't much story to find here, just one or two plot points happening intermingled with a series of flashbacks, half-way decent action scenes and CGI. It's something that feels like it would have been relegated to a pre-title scene in any other show. The little bits of plot Star Trek: Discovery has often times don't make much sense (or things outright 'shouldn't work that way') and most scenes seems to be constructed to show off how 'awesome' the main character (and the captain) is.
If one would tell me that the entire thing started out as a moderately entertaining fan-fiction - complete with Mary Sue-self- insert - I wouldn't be surprised. I couldn't connect with any of the characters, not Michael, not the Captain, not the Klingon Warchief. All other characters have already faded away from my memory - except Lt. Saru... and the "Daftpunkian".
( Seriously, what was that? I am more interested in what that robot in the background was, than how the story continues. )
However, I really hope this show improves as it goes on.
