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When you finally get to watch Discovery and realize it isn't actually an enormous pile of mugato dung (i.giphy.com)
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[–] 9 points 2 years ago* (2 children)

Same, I needed more after SNW and wasn't quite ready for the way 80's - '00s era Trek was filmed. I actually liked the first two seasons and thought season 3 was okay.

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But then we learned about the source of the burn.

And then season 4 happened. And then season 5 happened. It felt like all of these were leaning into my least favorite things about Discovery. By the finale, I was fast forwarding through everything just to get through it.

Watching TNG for the first time now and loving it way more than Disco :)

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Yeah, I got through season 3 and just let it go after that. Like the other seasons, the first half had me, but the endings killed it for me. And the endings just kept. Getting. Worse.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    Sounds like you saved yourself 2 more aneurysms haha.

    I actually liked a lot of S1 and S2 (S2 being peak because enterprise crew just carry the hell out of everything) but I also like edgy and dark media and can overlook a lot if the tone is done in a way that grabs me.

    S3 looked promising until the "big reveal". Couldn't take it seriously after that. Forced myself thorugh S4 and S5 but those were just straight up annoying. I can't stand it when things go wrong just because the protagonists are being stupid, or getting held back by some weird moral stance they clearly didn't have 3 episodes ago. What's even worse is when it's so generic I can accurately predict how a 40-60 minute episode will end within the first 10.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Watching TNG for the first time now and loving it way more than Disco :)

    There's so much to look forward to! It is a bit dated and I watch it through rose-colored glasses, but even with that in mind, it's a good show.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    Coming directly from Discovery and SNW, the sets and how everything was shot definitely felt dated at first I won't lie. But it took a couple of false starts, and then actually watching it for more than 10 minutes for me to be super immersed and forget about all of that. Still on Season 1 and I really like the stories being told so far. I'm watching an episode here and there when I'm in the mood but I get the feeling I'm gonna reach a point where I binge the whole thing in an unhealthy amount of time haha.

    My intro to Trek was Lower Decks so I'm also excited to see all of the crazy stuff they referenced in passing there :D

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