All of their many, many reboot episodes have been nothing but meta in jokes. Episode 2 will be much more informative.
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snake_case@feddit.uk 11 months ago
Yeah first episode was alright, but nothing spectacular, a little too meta in my opinion. I feel like it didn’t have much emotion for the characters, but we’ll see as the next episodes are released
StarManta@lemmy.world 11 months ago
kitsuneofinari@yiffit.net 11 months ago
Personally, I feel the episode was subpar. Even when compared to the worst episodes of Comedy Central’s run of the show. That run was rife with Meta humor.
This episode just felt beneath even those IMO. It doesn’t help that it seemed like their was only one good joke that landed which was a 20th century version of binging. The rest fell flat or just gave a slight chuckle.
Overall for me, it was not a good start, but here is hoping the next episodes are better.
Riker_Maneuver@startrek.website 11 months ago
This was pretty much my take too. I went in wanting to love it, but it ultimately fell flat for me. I re-watched the first four seasons back when it was announced this was coming. So, maybe I did this to myself by setting the bar way too high. I’m still going to give it a chance—hoping the overreliance on meta humor was a one-off—but I’ll be tempering my expectations going forward.