Opinion | Could Swifties or Trekkies Decide the Election?
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Why political groups are tapping into fandoms.

Lets just hope they don’t mean the “I liked it before it got woke” jerkwads.

  • DarkMetatron@feddit.deEnglish
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    10 months ago

    I don’t have anything really against the topics in lots of modern Star Trek, and I like a lot of it. Lower Decks is great, I loved Prodigy and what I have seen of Strange new worlds was quite good too. Even some parts of Picard Season 1 and 2 was good (and it got so much better in S3).

    What I can’t watch though is Discovery, this show is just, in my opinion, so bad written on so many levels. A waste of time and money in my eyes. I tried the first three seasons and stopped. I am happy for everyone who likes it, it is just not a show for me and that is fine.

    But all of the new shows are so much worse than the old shows (TNG and newer, I am too young for TOS/TAS), by miles. Maybe it is nostalgia (I started watching TNG as a teenager) but I don’t think so. Sure it has it’s own cringe at times but for me the quality of the writing and storytelling is on a completely other level.

      • shnizmuffin@lemmy.inbutts.lolEnglish
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        10 months ago

        Bad stories reliably end in TNG. Usually, they’re done after a single runtime. In Discovery, the awful plots smear across multiple episodes, if not entire seasons.

        Big arcs can work in Star Trek, but they have to be good. Discovery is like if the writers decided to make Pen Pals into a 12-episode saga. If something doesn’t hit, it takes forever to rectify. Then, since they decided to start as a prequel, they did the star wars thing of irreparably tarnishing the stories that came before.