• DontRedditMyLemmy@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    SNW is a good balance. Discovery on the other hand, was way too emotional for me. Where is STSA on the crying-every-other-scene scale?

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      6 months ago

      My main problem with DIS has a name: Michael Burnham. Not the actress, the script.

      And about your question: no, the crying is only in scenes that work (traumatic or sentimental enough) unlike DIS.

      • Tollana1234567@lemmy.todayBanned from community
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        6 months ago

        it was pretty much a push"woman can have masculine names too" kind of preachy attitude from Kurtzman, and not just ambigious name that be either gender. it still an awful name to begin with.

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          6 months ago

          I don’t mean the name itself. I mean the way Michael behaves. Even more when you think that she was adopted by a Vulcan family.

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      6 months ago

      I found Discovery the same way, it’s the only trek series I couldn’t make it through.

      Picard suffered from bad writing unfortunately. Season 3 cashed in on nostalgia and I appreciate it for that, but the first 2 seasons were very meh.

      Starfleet academy is great though, IF you’re ok with a show targeted to young adults. If you’re not ok with that, the episodes will be very hit and miss. The most recent episode was fantastic, once you get through the 3 minute long sex scene it opened with. Even that does serve a purpose though to show the bond that’s developed between two chars.

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      6 months ago

      STSA feels like a blend of Lower Decks and Discovery to me. I also had issues with Discovery (though it got better after the time jump) but have been enjoying Academy each week.

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        6 months ago

        The SAM episode was a little meh, personally, but I like that they’re dealing with the shorter season format and still doing episodes based around each character.