Well, this season looks officially ridiculous.
You mean perfect, right!?
Oh my yes.
I adore how campy this looks, but I’m so frustrated by the constant shoehorning of Kirk into the show. Maybe if the performance were interesting or there was something compelling about him it would be different, but he just seems to drag down the show whenever he appears (outside of the episode with La’an, but really, she was doing all of the work in that one).
I agree he’s not the best Captain Kirk, but I did enjoy his performance in the time travel episode (might have just been the writing and La’an performance like you said, though).
Now what we need is more George Samuel leaving crumbs and annoying Spock energy. I mean, the dude’s only got 8 years or so live… Give our boy some screen time!
It’s still so weird that they got the one completely charisma-free actor on the show to play Jim Kirk, and yet Sam Kirk lights up every scene he’s in
I have no beef with Paul Wesley - young Kirk was described as “a stack of books with legs” back in TOS, and I think that comes through in the performance.
But Sam Kirk is an absolute delight.
This is a very good point. We’re supposed to be seeing how he becomes the Kirk we know.
I cant wait. I’ve loved all the Star Trek series except Discovery. I just couldn’t get into it, and I tried hard. Maybe I’ll give it another go before this comes out.
If the first season wasn’t your cup of tea, you might try skipping to season two - I personally think it’s the weakest of the five, but it does introduce Mount, Peck, and Romijn as Pike, Spock, and Una.
And then there’s the major shift at the end, which sets the stage for some seasons that I really enjoyed.
season 1 made me rage quit until snw encouraged another try. now saru is my favorite character.
I got to season 3 before bailing, but season one was really ponderous. I’m really over the Star Trek obsession with Klingons.
I think season 4 was the only one I didn’t have to push myself to like - there were lots of great bits scattered throughout the first three seasons, but the fourth is where I felt like the whole season was enjoyable and strong (particularly the last couple of episodes).
I’ll give it another try, but I’ll skip that ridiculouus first season
That’s wise. No one is completely sure what happened in Disco Season one, anyway, due to the lack of lighting budget…
any announced date? (don’t really want to watch trailers)
There was a leak a few days ago suggesting July 31, which has since been retracted by the source (SkyShowtime in Europe).
No, it just says summer.
Was that Patton Oswalt as a Vulcan? Maybe he’s Sybok! And Rhys Darby looks like he could be playing Trelane.
Part of me is like, “Seriously! Mire multiverse stuff! Can we take a break, please?”, while the other half of me is like, “If it’s as good as LD or PRO multiverse stuff, I’ll take it!”
I am a bit worried about the fourth wall breaking stuff, but I wonder if they’re doing a Benny Russell “dreamer and the dream”-type thing, which might be fun.
The Clue episode looks fun. The trailer makes it look like this season is 75% quasi-holodeck episodes, which would be quite funny but is probably not the cases.
