well no real review there .
Just your thoughts about the reviews of others .
However being I have not read any other reviews than in this sub forum I can not comment on the comments of them.
Spock is not even in it yet really and even if so it would be only the 3rd one portraying the part .
There been more Spider-mans,hulks,Peter pans, Transformers ect ect ect remakes , re boots , redo's what evers .
Discovery is not a remake or re boot .
I'm pretty sure I laid out my problems with the show when it was released. I didn't care for the first 2 episodes at all and saw no reason to continue. Why pay for something when the 'preview' sucks? Most of what I didn't like (the tone, etc) seems to have only been amplified in subsequent episodes so I'd imagine no, I wouldn't like those either.. I'm certainly not interested in paying for it.
As far as Spock, unlike Peter Pan, Spider-Man and the rest.. the role of Spock originated with Leonard Nimoy. He wasn't
just the first actor to play an already established character.
Honestly I'm not very interested in rehashing old
The Original Series. It's been done by well.. the original cast. If you want an update there's the new movie series which was hit or miss. I don't really have any great need to revisit these characters.. again. Like many fans I was hoping for something new and not a re-tread. People are sick of reboots/re-imaginings/prequels/etc for a reason.
The fact that they are contractually obligated to not be 100% accurate to the original show makes doing a remake all the more dumb.
it is original content and not knowing which Multi verse it is it still follows the rules of star trek and follows a lot of the TOS happenings
I enjoy it and thought more would as Star wars is a mess .
To me Star Trek isn't dark or about explosions and war.. at least not as the focus. Sure Deep Space Nine got into that.. and did a good job of it.. but they were able to keep their footing. Discovery's 'new content' isn't compelling to me. I don't like the characters, I didn't find the universe interesting. I simply wasn't interested in seeing more.. unlike the Orville which I do enjoy.
The Captain PIKE thing took me by surprise but liked it and he is spot on lookalike to the T.O.S Pike .
Long Live and Prosper .
We just had a new Captain Pike a few years ago.. I don't need to go back to that. And does the new guy look like Jeffrey Hunter? I don't know that I got that.. but it doesn't really matter.
The Orville episode with the robot love story is a Ripoff of the Han Solo movie . Robot love side story . yay !
Oh and got to see what Norm MacDonald looks like instead of green snot . Double Yay!!
Just not funny enough perhaps or just lame story telling . Or not caring about the Love lifes of every crew member as it seems this show (the Orville) seems more of a show
like sex in the city . More about relations ( Gay-Straight-Robot-Transgendered-Next Bestiality unless making it with the snot ball was that) and practical jokes and horseplay. Again Going down The orville is .
Orville was more likely inspired by the episode of TNG where Data tried to date versus Solo. Yes Orville is derivative but it's fun. Even though it's familiar there's enough there to make it still fun to watch.
Discovery on the other hand is just digging up old characters again because some suit thinks that's what will be popular... that's a bigger turn off to me than a familiar plot line. Discovery is TV by committee (or perhaps morons I'm not sure). You can at least tell the Orville has
some heart behind it versus the souless machine many of the other SCI-FI shows have at their core (Discovery included)
And hey I'm actually not a fan of Seth McFarlane.. I don't like
Famiy Guy nor do I find it funny.. however the humor on the Orville has a good balance and has of yet not become an issue for me. I do like Norm Macdonald quite a bit so the blob character is fun for me.. a lot more fun than a mumble-mouth 'Sorta-Klingon' character ala Discovery.