'Star Trek: Discovery' - How This Show Still Running?
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I used to know plenty of people that were into TNG, DS9, etc.
I've never met a single person "in the wild" who watches Discovery. Literally, not a single person. I have met some who watched Picard, and the response is almost always "Well, it's so nice to see the gang back together again..."
Star Trek is dead at this point. What remains is unrecognizable to what we loved and largely indistinguishable from Star Wars.
Apparently Picard season 3 isn't complete shit. I'm still not watching it though.
Modern media is usually awful, and wears the name of the old like a skin suit. On top of that, the bar is so low that stuff that isn't complete shit (but still bad) seems good and people rave about it. Like I'm sure Picard season 3 is about a 5/10 at best but in comparison it's like a gold mine compared to season one and two.
Yeah, exactly. I watched Season 1 of Discovery. I was willing to give it a chance, and it's true that most Treks started slow in season 1. (It's also true that most Treks had some EXCELLENT season 1 episodes. This was not true of Discovery.)
No, it got worse as it went on, and I only made it a couple of episodes into season 2.
Likewise with Picard, I gave it a shot. It just kept getting dumber. It wasn't that it was bad so much as it was DUMB. So I quit after season 1. I'm pretty much done with live action Star Trek, though I do enjoy Lower Decks and I'm rewatching Ds9 right now.
I do know a couple of people who watched S3 of Picard, and it's exactly what you said. It's like a victims of abuse coming back for more and being grateful for the scraps off the table.
Lower Decks was surprisingly fun. Hated the first two episodes--which is where the trailer got all its footage from--but it really picked up after that.
I only saw through the end of season 3, though.