Question above. My only experience is with a handful of episodes from the original series. They were OK, but I'm not sure I want to watch the whole thing. It's a little too low budget for me. Can I just jump into the movies or one of the later series?
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It was because of drama. Do you read screen rant? They're very good with citing articles, tweets, threads... Whatever.
People didn't just hate the politics. When Sir Patrick Stuart announced he wasn't signing any more contracts people went off. Not only had there already been a petition to make Picard non canon because it was considered that bad. People were tracking the weird shit the actors were doing because magazines were producing pieces on 20 something year olds signing on for a sci fi, and deciding to identify just like their character. Again, and again, and again.
This was the same time Lady Gaga went crazy making that movie I didn't see that required her to hire a nurse to be on set to finish the movie. So, the media was all cheerleading what should have been how the fuck are you identifying as an fictional starship AI? While people that were feeling just as yelled at as you describe were like, no one there was worried? And, it kept happening to the younger actors. It's all documented in magazines as. " their journey"
That clip I posted has comments on YouTube that say it better then I could ever. They didn't allow a different direction for the show. They lost their fans, the people they pandered to were never fans. So, they went back to basics. Because that's where their fan base was.
I enjoyed season 3. I binge watched it, and I don't usually allow myself to put that much time into the idiot box.