schornstephan

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New Berlin, Moon
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The Man in the High Castle
MacGyver

I didn't like it as I liked the original series

The authors thought they had to recycle the characters of the original series.

So Mac's nephew (or another kind of relative) works in his original MacGyver's old working place and anybody there has the name of one of Mac's old mates and colleagues? Sure...
I'm absolutely fine with a female boss, but DON'T call her Patricia Thornton! That's just silly. And calling an Ex-Marine Jack Dalton is even more silly.

The characters themselves are... ok. But "Team MacGyver" doesn't work out just like "Team Knight Rider" didn't.

Besides that, I sometimes have the feeling the new Mac just ocssionally builds stuff so you may call him Mac.

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The Orville
Star Trek: Discovery
3

Shout by schornstephan
BlockedParent2017-09-27T01:21:07Z— updated 2018-01-23T03:00:07Z

It feels like the producers want to annoy the Trekkie as much as they can with Voyager-era beeping sounds, trials without a lawyer (Starfleet ISN'T military!!!), a completely different Sarek...

Besides from the canon errors, which I have finally been able to overlook since episode two, the main character herself isn't one that "fits" into Star Trek. I only talk about the role, not the actress.
I just don't like Michael. She is self-righteous, calls daddy when her ship is in danger, she isn't loyal... In short, she misses any part of personality a Starfleet officer should have.
She's got a problem with herself and it is absolutely unrealistic she would be an officer anywhere.

Update time!
The text above was from Oct 17.
Now it's Jan 23.
Aaaand: I was right: She wasn't welcomed on the Discovery because she's a great Officer, she just accidentally happened to be this universe's counterpart of someone Mirror Lorca needed to become Emperor.

So it's official: We've got Star Trek with an incapable main character.

Oh yeah, as presumed, she's messed up like 97% of her tasks in the meantime.

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