SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca 3 hours ago
It’s part of a general problem where old trek is basically competence porn (everyone is ridiculously competent at their jobs) while in new Trek everyone kinda acts like a teenager. Maybe it’s a desperate attempt to appeal to a younger audience (I don’t think that actually works tho), but it certainly doesn’t appeal to fans of older Trek.
It definitely breaks immersion to have characters that have serious jobs acting like teenagers.
hopesdead@startrek.website 2 hours ago
This is literally about people who don’t know how to do the job, being taught how to do the job.
SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca 1 hour ago
I thought the captain was the one that supposed to teach them how to do the job? Why is she acting like a teenager? How are they supposed to learn how to stop acting like teenagers and take their jobs seriously if the captain is acting this way too?
Yeah it’s just a show, but characters in a show should be acting as if the world they’re in is real. It breaks immersion when they don’t.
There’s a general fear of being genuine with characters in a lot of shows and movies, and it’s gotten really old. It’s really cringey at this point.
It would be nice to have a show about people on a spaceship acting like people that are really on a spaceship that have serious jobs. It’s boring to have yet another show where it’s just people acting like youtube influencers on some spaceship sets. People that actually like vapid youtube influencers will only just watch clips from these shows, so what’s the point of trying to appeal to that crowd?