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Star Trek: Discovery Premiered Sunday Night - Thoughts?

posted by Fnord666 on Tuesday September 26 2017, @05:09PM   Printer-friendly
from the to-boldy-go? dept.

martyb writes:

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?

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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by DannyB on Tuesday September 26 2017, @06:44PM (1 child)

    by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday September 26 2017, @06:44PM (#573374) Journal

    Originality is shunned, because it may introduce ideas that deviate from the narrative.

    Originality is shunned because it involves risk. A bold new idea involves taking risk on something untried. Unproven. Re-hashing 50 year old movies, tv shows, or comic books is "safe".

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  • (Score: 1) by Paradise Pete on Wednesday September 27 2017, @11:39AM

    by Paradise Pete (1806) on Wednesday September 27 2017, @11:39AM (#573743)

    There are only a handful of story structures that work, and so they are the framework for almost all movies and books. The details are just draped upon it. An *extremely* common structure is this:

    • The protaganist (hero) has a problem. It seems simple and straightforward.
    • Hero tries a simple solution and it fails, revealing more about the problem and that it's more complicated than it appeared.
    • Hero tries a more complicated solution and it again fails, and we learn that the problem is much, much more serious.
    • Hero tries a desperate solution that is clearly failing and disaster is imminent, when at the last moment the day is saved by extraordinary and valiant effort.
    • Even though it's now clearly over, somebody still has to say it. This is the "He's dead, Jim" moment.

    It's is always three attempts. Two is unsatisfying, four is tedious. Once you start to watch for this structure you can't not see it.