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CBS premiered its new Star Trek series "Discovery" on Sunday. The first episode was made available on OTA (over-the-air) CBS stations — but it and all subsequent episodes are available strictly on CBS's All Access streaming service. Cost is $6/month with ads, $10/month ad-free. (NOTE: The second episode was made available immediately after episode 1 aired. Episodes 3-7 will be released weekly, there will be a break, and then the remaining episodes will again be released weekly early in 2018.)
Ars Technica has a review that mostly praised the new show. (There were at least two technical inaccuracies in the review concerning the first episode.)
For those who may not yet have seen it, I kindly ask folks who comment on this story to make liberal use of the <spoiler>don't show this unless they click here</spoiler> tags.
What did you think? Was it entertaining? Did it hold closely [enough] to existing Star Trek canon? Was any 'ideology' change you saw sufficiently warranted?
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 26 2017, @05:47PM (3 children)
The same people who mock religion always find all sorts of "hidden meaning" in their favorite Hollywood-produced commercial fiction.
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 26 2017, @05:58PM
Multiple interpretations are what define a classic.
One time, a pair of Jehovah's Witnesses stopped by, and were telling me how amazing the Bible is, how the stories are so good that they could be Hollywood movies.
I said: "Yeah. The Jews are known for being able to spin a good fiction."
There was a moment of understanding in their eyes.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by DeathMonkey on Tuesday September 26 2017, @06:20PM
The same people who mock religion always find all sorts of "hidden meaning" in their favorite Hollywood-produced commercial fiction.
Thinking a human writer might be implying something with his words is a pretty reasonable hypothesis.
Thinking some text on planet earth wasn't written by a human at all is a pretty mock-worthy hypothesis.
(Score: 2) by Immerman on Tuesday September 26 2017, @07:07PM
There's "hidden meanings" in almost everything
- those things the author intentionally hid as "Easter eggs" for the attentive reader
- those things the author themselves didn't realize they were inserting (generally threads of their own assumptions and prejudices)
- and those things the reader inserts into their own interpretation (as reading is inherently a collaborative act)
Where mocking religion comes in is assuming that the work, and thus the hidden meanings, are the work of a divine being and thus reveal a higher truth. "Higher truths" in a fictional universe are fair game precisely because everyone recognizes that they are threads inserted by that universe's undisputed Creator(s). A lot of people take offense when you give the same treatment to holy texts.