'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.
It was around that time that all the normie right wingers in the "culture war" sphere on Youtube (like Nerdrotic, Critical Drinker, Az, and the like) started shilling for Picard season 3, that I unsubbed from all of them. Previously, they had been telling people to stay away from Picard, rightfully mocking it with how bad it had ruined star Trek, and pointed out what the writers, producers, and actors had been saying (the usual "fans are racists if they don't like our humiliation ritual slop"), and yet, they all turned on a dime, ready to support "currrent thing", because it injected all manner of "remember when..." and fan service, which they previously had lambasted in other shows which tried to do the same thing, manipulating people to try to bring fans back. Keep in mind, too, that these are the same morons who think we'll win the culture war "when the money runs out", and even though they admitted in their own reviews that the same people who created seasons 1 and 2 were still at the same company making season 3, they were still telling people to consume product.
I felt like I was taking crazy pills seeing them all contradict themselves. When I tried to voice this in the comments, I got dog piled and gaslit, from a community that used to pride itself on being "red pilled".
Drinker put out his "review" before season 3 even released. He had a little exchange with the showrunner on twitter.
I don't know what's sadder: getting 'paid' in twitter chats to shill garbage, or shilling garbage for free because senpai noticed you.
I also don't get why people were falling over themselves to praise the S3 showrunner. He was, like, a grip or something on Voyager and everyone was acting like he was the second coming of Ron Moore.