They took an incredibly interesting story and somehow made it boring/annoying. Not sure what's up with the obnoxious volume music throughout. I'll watch a few more episodes in the hopes it improves. Just seems off. Like the actors are doing a good job but the way it's edited together it doesn't draw you in.
So far it's pretty bad... ( the Last episode I watched is #5)...
According to Trakt, this show has 9 episodes, and so far nothing important or interesting happens. There is no actual overarching plot so far. While this was true for the first season of the Expanse too. That many different seemingly unconnected plot threads only connected at the end of the season for a big climax, here there are no multiple plot threads to connect.
The Discovery discovered mushroom magic propulsion technology which allows them to teleport their ship where they want. This is the crux of the plot so far. There is a war with the Klingons and the Discovery is the only ship equipped with the magic mushroom drive. And that's it...
This is not helped at all by how unbelievable the main character is written. She is a rebel in a military organization that constantly disobeys direct orders. Cpt Picard or Cpt Sisko would have kicked her out from their ship\starbase right away.
Klingons are one-dimensional villains who have only one mode 'Kill Enemies'. For some reason, they also don't want to 'culturally appropriate' the Klingon language so this results in tedious extremely long scenes where Klingon characters speak only Klingon. This happens in Game of Thrones too when they speak Valyrian, but the scenes are never as long or tedious as the Klingon speaking scenes in Discovery...
Also, normally I don't care about things like this, but it seems the show went out of its way to cast as little white men as possible. As I said, this is not something I would usually care about, but it's so comically obvious that it's disturbing. It's like they are living in a world where there was a plague that killed 90% of the staight male population...
the show is literally going where no MAN has gone before.
because apparently an all female Star Trek is what was needed
In the final episode of Season 1, after the investigators summarize what happened, a character says, "You know, what you're describing is both insane and impossible." I agree. The events in this series are both insane and impossible. As Season 1 progressed, the things that happen slowly turn from implausible to just plain fantasy. I don't know who wrote this or why none of the production team seem to have experience living in the real world, but it's remarkable that something this bad could get made at all. The acting is bad, there are continuity errors, the plot holes are enormous and numerous. Anyone involved in this series should be banned from content production for life.
Probably just me, but I just don't find this interesting! It seems that it's dragging on unnecessarily. Boring like a 'made for TV' series of old. Remember them?
