Submitted 8 hours ago by jalanhenning@startrek.website to startrek@startrek.website
https://startrek.website/pictrs/image/6cc63bc6-f7e6-43f1-9560-d694b196261d.png
While IMDB users are not representative of the wider population, I find it interesting to see that they’ve soured on Season 4 episodes so far.
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.
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.
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.
StillPaisleyCat@startrek.website 7 hours ago
I find it interesting how much attention franchise fans give to crowd-sourced ratings on IMDb and Rotten Tomatoes when we know that they are brigaded. Why give any credence to manipulated data?
As I have been watching more content from China recently, I have learned that the manipulation of social media and streaming audience data, especially ratings, is a very high profile public discussion outside North America.
In fact, there have been repeated attempts to develop and patent algorithms in China to detect manipulated ratings and streaming audience data and correct for them. None have successfully proved they can clean up brigading and manipulation to the satisfaction of national authorities.
ValueSubtracted@startrek.website 7 hours ago
Yeah, I couldn’t be less interested in unreliable, easily-manipulated aggregate "scores, " regardless of whether I agree with what they say. This whole site is for people to share their own opinions in a genuine and intelligent way, and that’s far more interesting to me.