Comment on Is Star Trek Discovery that bad?
StillPaisleyCat@startrek.website 11 hours agoI really find this narrative offensive.
First there’s the mischaracterization of a very young and completely dependent who child completely abandoned with the death of the last adult who cared or supported him.
But more than that, Star Trek is littered with a trope about children with incredible powers to interact with the universe who nearly destroy the galaxy or civilizations or large swaths of them.
It started with Charlie X, and was taken up by every other series, sometimes more than once.
On all those other occasions, our hero ship and crew miraculously saved the day and prevented disaster by psychic or superpowered child who was incapable of adult decision-making.
Discovery called the bluff.
Discovery reversed the trope, had the child’s powers actually destroy civilization.
Instead of the hero crew stopping the disaster in the nick of time (again), Discovery finds the child and solves the problem.
And long time fans are offended by THAT?!!
Corgana@startrek.website 9 hours ago
Honestly, when I hear that interpretation it makes me feel like the person didn’t actually watch the season, they just watched the outrage peddling influencers online.
Semi-related but I lost count of the number of times someone on Reddit described Adira’s coming out (a ten second moment in a larger unrelated scene) as a “huge story arc” or being comprised of “multiple episodes” being “shoved in the audiences faces”. I felt like I was taking crazy pills until I learned that’s exactly how the outrage-tubers were presenting it. If you’d never watched the season you’d have no idea it was such an inconsequential moment.
BradleyUffner@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
Sorry to say, I watched every single episode, up until the end of that season, myself. I’ll admit to being extra harsh in judging this season since I was already pretty fed up with the writing by that point. I had very little patience left.
Corgana@startrek.website 9 hours ago
I’m sorry, but if you truly watched the entire season, you’d know that your description of the events is incongruous with the events as presented on screen.