‘Star Trek: Discovery’ Was Denied 2-Hour Finale Movie, Says Sonequa Martin-Green
‘Star Trek: Discovery’ Was Denied 2-Hour Finale Movie, Says Sonequa Martin-Green
Thank God. This would have been 2 straight hours of mind-numbing dialogue between characters about how much they've been through together and how much they're going to miss each other.
The dislike of Discovery is a totally valid opinion, but this is a poor & disrespectful take. The show did a lot. I enjoyed it, even if it wasn't my top trek show. Any trek deserves a proper, respectful send-off. You can point at the finale that we got and say that it wasn't great, but honestly what do you expect with a few extra pages of writing and barely any shooting time? The actors and writers deserved an opportunity to actually end things properly, and instead they were given next to nothing and they did their best to make do.
The dislike of Discovery is a totally valid opinion, but this is a poor & disrespectful take.
Except this is what I disliked about Discovery. You'd have ten minutes of activity that actually moved the plot forward, followed by twenty minutes of crew "checking in" with each other in order to discuss everyone's feelings about what just happened while also rehashing events from past episodes. It was like watching a Spanish telenovela, where every second piece of dialogue was intended to remind you of what happened in the last episode...just in case you forgot.
Every episode was 3/4 dialogue, discussing what we all watched happen in the first 1/4. It felt like every season should have taken 3 episodes...not 14. In the last couple of seasons, I literally skipped entire episodes, and it did nothing to impact the plot.
3rd screen content. you're not actually supposed to watch it, you're supposed to passively absorb it while doing something else.
That is sage advice. I think I've been doing it wrong, this whole time.
I prefer to think of it as they made a bad show on purpose, and then tried to claim that the reasons why it's bad are the reasons why it's good actually.
Don't get me wrong, the plot (what little of it I did see) was pretty good, and the acting was (mostly) pretty good, the set design and costuming and whatnot was pretty good. Very high production quality. The problems that you pointed out with the writing I 100% agree with, and relegate what could have been a great show to expensive background noise.
Dune Prophecy did the same thing, and it was in those conversations I found the term "3rd screen content". The studios really are doing this on purpose.
That's a fair criticism and I'm not telling you your opinion on the show is wrong. But Discovery did have its fans, and I think it's disrespectful to them and especially the cast & crew to say they deserved to get the Enterprise ending treatment, just because you didn't enjoy the show.
It's also against the #1 rule of this community
Disrespectful is telling people who didn’t like the show that they must not have gotten enough hugs from their father.
Did you see the photo attached to the story? It pretty much validates Archangel’s comment.
