I’ll have to disagree with you on that second point. I really enjoyed the SNW musical episode. I got major The Magicians feels from it, and I thought the music was great! However, some of the individual songs were… kinds weird, and, as for it being a Trek episodes, I wasn’t a fan in that regard. I really hope this isn’t a sign the show its getting CW-ified.
SNW is like if you took TOS and miked in some DIS and LD. I kinda like it, but they really need to dial back the character drama and focus more on the sci-fi. and not “boom ‘splode!” sci-fi, but the “solve complex science problems with professionalism and teamwork” sci-fi and “confront weird moral/ethical conundra in space” sci-fi. ”Among the Lotus Eaters”, ’’Under the Cloak of War’’, ’’Ad Astra Per Aspera’’ were excellent episodes in that regard because they actually focused on the crew doing Star Trek things, interacting with the world around them, solving problems, etc. rather than just their dumb interpersonal bullshit.
I mean, with ’’Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow”, we get the opportunity for a cool time-travel episode, but noooo, we have to have it be mostly about La’an’s crush on Kirk and how mesmerizingly charming he is, even in alternate-timeline form. And the result? Possibly the most interesting thing about the episode, Kahn Noonien Singh as a kid, is reduced to, maaaaybe a 30 second scene where he’s like, “please don’t murder me!,” and she’s like, “k, bye!” as the writers hand-wave away one of the franchise’s biggest timeline inconsistencies it’s had since the IRL 1990s did not devolve into the Eugenics Wars as TOS predicted it would. C’mon, you guys had the whole episode to address this, and you wasted it with all that cutesy bullshit with La’an and Kirk? What crap.
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it’s so bad! and when thy tried to “improve” it for S03… ugh they somehow made it worse!
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I’ll have to disagree with you on that second point. I really enjoyed the SNW musical episode. I got major The Magicians feels from it, and I thought the music was great! However, some of the individual songs were… kinds weird, and, as for it being a Trek episodes, I wasn’t a fan in that regard. I really hope this isn’t a sign the show its getting CW-ified.
SNW is like if you took TOS and miked in some DIS and LD. I kinda like it, but they really need to dial back the character drama and focus more on the sci-fi. and not “boom ‘splode!” sci-fi, but the “solve complex science problems with professionalism and teamwork” sci-fi and “confront weird moral/ethical conundra in space” sci-fi. ”Among the Lotus Eaters”, ’’Under the Cloak of War’’, ’’Ad Astra Per Aspera’’ were excellent episodes in that regard because they actually focused on the crew doing Star Trek things, interacting with the world around them, solving problems, etc. rather than just their dumb interpersonal bullshit.
I mean, with ’’Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow”, we get the opportunity for a cool time-travel episode, but noooo, we have to have it be mostly about La’an’s crush on Kirk and how mesmerizingly charming he is, even in alternate-timeline form. And the result? Possibly the most interesting thing about the episode, Kahn Noonien Singh as a kid, is reduced to, maaaaybe a 30 second scene where he’s like, “please don’t murder me!,” and she’s like, “k, bye!” as the writers hand-wave away one of the franchise’s biggest timeline inconsistencies it’s had since the IRL 1990s did not devolve into the Eugenics Wars as TOS predicted it would. C’mon, you guys had the whole episode to address this, and you wasted it with all that cutesy bullshit with La’an and Kirk? What crap.