Star Trek Discovery
Jan. 27th, 2018 10:37 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
igrockspockI watched the first two episodes and holy shit guys!
You know how we all have that self-insert fantasy for our favorite fandom when we're 13 years old? Here was mine: my parents died in tragic circumstances, and I was taken in by Sarek, whereupon I became the first-ever human to attend the Vulcan Science Academy. Naturally, they were all dazzled by how smart and capable and ridiculously logical I was, and when I turned 18 and joined Starfleet, I became an officer of unrivaled competence. So basically, I used to pretend I was Michael Burnham.
I am really in no place to evaluate objectively whether this show is good or not, but I don't think anything has ever tapped into my fannish id quite so perfectly. I feel full-blown obsession coming on, and I've only seen two episodes.
You know how we all have that self-insert fantasy for our favorite fandom when we're 13 years old? Here was mine: my parents died in tragic circumstances, and I was taken in by Sarek, whereupon I became the first-ever human to attend the Vulcan Science Academy. Naturally, they were all dazzled by how smart and capable and ridiculously logical I was, and when I turned 18 and joined Starfleet, I became an officer of unrivaled competence. So basically, I used to pretend I was Michael Burnham.
I am really in no place to evaluate objectively whether this show is good or not, but I don't think anything has ever tapped into my fannish id quite so perfectly. I feel full-blown obsession coming on, and I've only seen two episodes.
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Date: 2018-01-28 06:39 am (UTC)Michael is awesome, her actress is awesome, she's awesome all the way down basically.
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Date: 2018-01-29 04:55 am (UTC)I watched three or four episodes, and as someone who grew up on TNG/DS9/Voyager and later Enterprise, and loved them... I hate its guts. Everything I've read abut events in later episodes just makes it worse. No spoilers, but to me Star Trek was about two things: an optimistic world that illustrates moral/ethical issues, and about a group of coworkers who grow into a pseudo family. Discovery is neither. So far from neither that I can't watch it.
I hope you like it but... fair warning.
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Date: 2018-01-29 04:30 pm (UTC)