Comment on How IMDB Users Rate Season 4 of SNW
Shadow@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
I’ve soured on s4 too. First one was the best, second acceptable but not really trek, and it’s just been shit since.
Please just give us a final 1.5 seasons of quality fucking trek. Is that really so hard? I’m glad they’re having fun making the show, but the audience isn’t.
Funny, I thought the first episode was pretty terrible. Pike’s decision to go along with a planetary genocide on a hunch was indefensible to say the least. And there wasn’t even very much dinosaur action to offset that with stupid fun.
The rest of the season I’ve really enjoyed. A big step up in quality from season 3, though still not hitting the highs that season 2 reached.
Pike’s decision to go along with a planetary genocide on a hunch was indefensible to say the least.
And I think that’s the most compelling part!
TBH, one could argue that this season has been pretty successful, if the number of discussion points is anything to go by.
I’d feel better about ep1 if it was presented as a difficult or haunting choice. It’s the hunch aspect that really bothers me.
But on reflection, there were still some very good ideas in there. The small bit with the translation of “alone” was possibly the cleverest thing that’s happened this season, and hard to actually pull off in dialogue as well as they did.
Agreed, the whole “every episode is a different genre” is tiresome. I think that would have been fine for just one season, with some reason for that season to be like that. The show feels inconsistent and discontinuous, which is generally not what people like to experience. A good show may have both good episodes and sucky episodes, but still stand as at least the sum of its whole, if not more than its sum. SNW is kind of the opposite, where even if you have good individual episodes (and they’re not all good), the whole does not stand together.
I do appreciate the experiment in television and story telling, but I think they should have learned earlier. Oh well, too late now.
ValueSubtracted@startrek.website 2 weeks ago
Honestly, I think “A Case of Chiaroscuro” deserves another look. If you disregard the B&W “gimmick” (which I think served the story quite well, but YMMV), I think the A- and B-stories are good, classical Trek.
A little TOS-y in some respects, but I don’t consider that a knock against.
bgainor@thelemmy.club 2 weeks ago
In general, I think this season has felt the most like TOS like any of them. A lot of people forget how campy the original series was, and if anything, they definitely seem to be embracing it fully here, for better or worse. Episodes 1 and 4 in particular would have fit in very well in TOS.