Startrek Discovery Ep 1
Sep. 26th, 2017 10:48 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jackOoh, as several people said, I like the characters. First ep set up the bridge crew very well.
And nicely diverse main characters, both in terms of aliens, and human races and gender expressions. We'll have to see if the background characters live up to that.
Startrek Producer 1: Hey, we did a great job with diversity. We exceeded our target with the federation crew!
Startrek Producer 2: Don't worry. We can make up for it by making super racist klingons.
WTF? Was there some sort of fight behind the scenes, where one person designed a diverse progressive federation, and the other went wild loading negative stereotypes on klingons? They'll be like orcs, but uglier. And really dark, more black the more evil they are. And all men, we don't need to show any women. And they won't have anything to DO, or even living quarters, they'll just stand around arguing about death and honour.
Even if you decide to show the Klingon society as repressive and regressive, you could show female klingon characters! Presumably they exist somewhere. Judging from these scenes, they do all the actual work. And presumably they have opinions whether blah blah blah prophecy blah blah death honour mutilation war blah or not.
Vulcan upbringing. Yes! Although can we as a society PLEASE FUCKING MOVE PAST SHOWING SMART CHARACTERS ESTIMATING THINGS TO THREE DECIMAL PLACES?
And I could do with less, "stop having emotions". Yes, Vulcans endlessly spend their lives telling humans to stop having emotions. Even though they know it's futile. Why do they keep doing it?
I'm sure it broke continuity in lots of ways even if you buy into the time travel premise, but I don't care, I care whether it felt right and followed stayed consistent to itself, and it mostly seemed to. It *felt* right. All the ship, and decorations and uniforms, and space suits, and so on.
It was mostly blessedly free of the recent films J J Abrams notion that time and space are infinitely malleable and characters leap between scenes on opposite sides of the galaxy one minute and then spend hours traversing a single system the next. I hadn't considered "there's a sense of different locations being in different places to each other, and taking time to travel between" as a plus point for a tv show before, but apparently you can't take it for granted.
Except possibly the beacon thing. All those ships it summoned, from how far away? And it was really bright, but given how fast people "saw" it, was it beaconing in visible light? Or sublight? Or something else?
I am mildly suspicious of hologram-admiral-phone. But being able to talk to the admiralty sometimes but not others, and not have them just command all the starships from earth, is in the longest traditions of startrek, so there's not a lot to say. Just don't overdo it.
And, eek. I hope they're all ok!
When I first saw the title, I thought, "is that a sex act? or like a glasgow kiss?" I hadn't expected to be right.
And nicely diverse main characters, both in terms of aliens, and human races and gender expressions. We'll have to see if the background characters live up to that.
Startrek Producer 1: Hey, we did a great job with diversity. We exceeded our target with the federation crew!
Startrek Producer 2: Don't worry. We can make up for it by making super racist klingons.
WTF? Was there some sort of fight behind the scenes, where one person designed a diverse progressive federation, and the other went wild loading negative stereotypes on klingons? They'll be like orcs, but uglier. And really dark, more black the more evil they are. And all men, we don't need to show any women. And they won't have anything to DO, or even living quarters, they'll just stand around arguing about death and honour.
Even if you decide to show the Klingon society as repressive and regressive, you could show female klingon characters! Presumably they exist somewhere. Judging from these scenes, they do all the actual work. And presumably they have opinions whether blah blah blah prophecy blah blah death honour mutilation war blah or not.
Vulcan upbringing. Yes! Although can we as a society PLEASE FUCKING MOVE PAST SHOWING SMART CHARACTERS ESTIMATING THINGS TO THREE DECIMAL PLACES?
And I could do with less, "stop having emotions". Yes, Vulcans endlessly spend their lives telling humans to stop having emotions. Even though they know it's futile. Why do they keep doing it?
I'm sure it broke continuity in lots of ways even if you buy into the time travel premise, but I don't care, I care whether it felt right and followed stayed consistent to itself, and it mostly seemed to. It *felt* right. All the ship, and decorations and uniforms, and space suits, and so on.
It was mostly blessedly free of the recent films J J Abrams notion that time and space are infinitely malleable and characters leap between scenes on opposite sides of the galaxy one minute and then spend hours traversing a single system the next. I hadn't considered "there's a sense of different locations being in different places to each other, and taking time to travel between" as a plus point for a tv show before, but apparently you can't take it for granted.
Except possibly the beacon thing. All those ships it summoned, from how far away? And it was really bright, but given how fast people "saw" it, was it beaconing in visible light? Or sublight? Or something else?
I am mildly suspicious of hologram-admiral-phone. But being able to talk to the admiralty sometimes but not others, and not have them just command all the starships from earth, is in the longest traditions of startrek, so there's not a lot to say. Just don't overdo it.
And, eek. I hope they're all ok!
When I first saw the title, I thought, "is that a sex act? or like a glasgow kiss?" I hadn't expected to be right.