I was really hoping after seeing the Picard series pulled from the dumpster to end with a glorious final season 3 and do so well that even Patrick Stewart is calling for more of the same that Discovery would have stepped up the mark and finished in similar fashion. I am trying hard to like this series but it seems season 5 will just continue to try to hard to fill good story telling with overly explained virtues.
Just because you can do something in CGI, doesn't mean you should and Discovery just can't seem to learn that. The show is filled to the brim with cool looking CGI effects I wonder if anyone stopped to think should they? But I can accept too much CGI as I do at least find the effects interesting. After all that was my career.
But it's the overly long drawn out overly emotional dialog between action scenes that really fails. Love isn't a big long 10 minute dialog. Okay I exaggerate but it feels that way. It would be one thing if the Vulcans had to talk out their expressions of love but this problem extends to all the characters. Too much talk, too little action when it comes to expressing virtues or love scenes. I've read much better dime store romance novels (not really but enough so I know these are way, way over done).
The writers seem determined to over explain every scene to the nth degree. Even the action scenes are so badly written that the characters literally have to explain everything that is happening on the screen so the viewer will know what's going through their heads with each blast of a phaser. The show is really overly redundant with the dialog that even action scenes become painful.
Physics don't seem to apply 900 years into the future. Perhaps the stretching of space allows for violations of Newtons basic laws. I don't want to give anything away but I think you will know which scenes I am referring to. And there are several. Many of them quite painful but some are more obvious than others. And don't get me started on the liberties they are taking with basic biology. The Science in this Science Fiction is weak at best. At least they did have some descent hero shots of the Discovery. But still the CGI shots are often dark but not quite as dark as the show originally started with.
But call me the optimist. I am hoping the show gets better as the season goes. I love Star Trek, any Star Trek so much that I will watch any Star Trek to the bitter end. But this show is making me actually take a look at Star Trek V and say, it really wasn't as bad as people say it is. At least V has it's moments. When these episodes end I really have to ask myself what were the good points and yes, it does have a few. I really am hoping they pull off a memorable final few episodes.
Here is to better episodes this year.
Hopefully we will get there.
Perhaps I had too high of hopes.
Just because you can do something in CGI, doesn't mean you should and Discovery just can't seem to learn that. The show is filled to the brim with cool looking CGI effects I wonder if anyone stopped to think should they? But I can accept too much CGI as I do at least find the effects interesting. After all that was my career.
But it's the overly long drawn out overly emotional dialog between action scenes that really fails. Love isn't a big long 10 minute dialog. Okay I exaggerate but it feels that way. It would be one thing if the Vulcans had to talk out their expressions of love but this problem extends to all the characters. Too much talk, too little action when it comes to expressing virtues or love scenes. I've read much better dime store romance novels (not really but enough so I know these are way, way over done).
The writers seem determined to over explain every scene to the nth degree. Even the action scenes are so badly written that the characters literally have to explain everything that is happening on the screen so the viewer will know what's going through their heads with each blast of a phaser. The show is really overly redundant with the dialog that even action scenes become painful.
Physics don't seem to apply 900 years into the future. Perhaps the stretching of space allows for violations of Newtons basic laws. I don't want to give anything away but I think you will know which scenes I am referring to. And there are several. Many of them quite painful but some are more obvious than others. And don't get me started on the liberties they are taking with basic biology. The Science in this Science Fiction is weak at best. At least they did have some descent hero shots of the Discovery. But still the CGI shots are often dark but not quite as dark as the show originally started with.
But call me the optimist. I am hoping the show gets better as the season goes. I love Star Trek, any Star Trek so much that I will watch any Star Trek to the bitter end. But this show is making me actually take a look at Star Trek V and say, it really wasn't as bad as people say it is. At least V has it's moments. When these episodes end I really have to ask myself what were the good points and yes, it does have a few. I really am hoping they pull off a memorable final few episodes.
Here is to better episodes this year.
Hopefully we will get there.
Perhaps I had too high of hopes.