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Star Trek: Discovery Cancellation Gets Even Worse (www.giantfreakinrobot.com)

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Despite Star Trek: Discovery's critical success, it was far from a fan-favorite. Though all four seasons boast an average 85 percent critical score, the audience score is at a dismal 37 percent. Since audience scores are more strongly correlated to overall viewership, Discovery simply wasn't pulling the numbers to make it a financially viable intellectual property.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The 30th century thing of rebuilding a fallen Federation was a somewhat interesting prospect, but I think they chose the wrong angle of going at it. But I don't know what I would have done differently, because I'm not a good enough writer to have a decent opinion on it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I enjoyed the federation reborn as well. I have an opinion.

The writers were so busy patting each other on their backs with how "deep" they were being with symbolism about the importance of communication, that they went and made the whole cause of the burn a child being lonely on some planet somewhere so they could twist the burn into a big symbolic point about how "if only we had been a little better" something like it would never have happened.

It was so fucking telegraphed that I saw it coming episodes away and was rolling eyes every time the show referenced this symbolic circle jerk.

No. Shit happens. The universe doesn't care, and it WILL fuck your shit up, I would have been far more impressed with the crew rebuilding the federation after an inevitable natural disaster, making a point of life finding a way despite the random crap reality throws at us, and how communication and understanding is one of the things that help us do that.

Star Trek is supposed to be optimistic, not delusional, and as such the core message of that season rings hollow. It's too hopeful. Instead of "we might not be perfect, and we might not know what's coming, we know we are enough" it was "we're nearly there, we just need one more step to be perfect, and nothing bad will ever happen because of this ever again".