Re: DIS - Such Sweet Sorrow, Part 2
Posted: Sun Oct 11, 2020 8:00 pm
I've always felt that what made Star Trek, well, Star Trek was the importance of the ensemble cast. Each of the main characters bring in their own unique perspective, background or ideology so even if they're not driving the story they can add a different perspective. But as Chuck pointed out the series is hyper-focused on Michael and the select few characters she's close to. I was honestly racking my brain for times he's talked at length about character's arcs that weren't explicitly connected to her. It honestly feels like the right time to move past her and give the other main characters a chance but that's probably not going to happen.
Another big problem is that the writing at times feels like obvious backtracking on part of the producers. Like they suddenly realized that killing off Captain Georgiou is a waste of the talents of Michelle Yeoh so they went, "Uhhh...I know! We'll bring her back to the series as the evil emperor!" While narratively, it's kind of hard to keep such a terrible person around and have them be on the side of the angels and make it believable. It's the same thing with Stamets and Culber. The show suddenly realized unfortunate implications from killing off the main homosexual relationship in Trek and went, "Uhh...What if we brought back Culber, um. Through...the...spores? Yeah! That's the ticket!" And because of that more time is spent on the trauma Stamets went through from losing his partner and Culber's trauma of coming back from the dead rather than on their relationship.
It all feels so lazy.
Another big problem is that the writing at times feels like obvious backtracking on part of the producers. Like they suddenly realized that killing off Captain Georgiou is a waste of the talents of Michelle Yeoh so they went, "Uhhh...I know! We'll bring her back to the series as the evil emperor!" While narratively, it's kind of hard to keep such a terrible person around and have them be on the side of the angels and make it believable. It's the same thing with Stamets and Culber. The show suddenly realized unfortunate implications from killing off the main homosexual relationship in Trek and went, "Uhh...What if we brought back Culber, um. Through...the...spores? Yeah! That's the ticket!" And because of that more time is spent on the trauma Stamets went through from losing his partner and Culber's trauma of coming back from the dead rather than on their relationship.
It all feels so lazy.