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[pussyhoundspock]

SNW does feel like Trek by way of Marvel but I can’t decide if it’s better or worse than Picard? I just started watching it but I can’t tell who they think their audience is.

yeah it literally feels like trek by way of marvel!! i haven't seen picard haha so i can't weigh in there (i haven't seen TNG yet either outside of like, when i was a kid, because I'm watching the TOS-TNG-DS9 series with a friend and we simply don't watch that quickly sldkjflsj we're still in season 2 of TOS whereas I'm working through you know all the rest of the shows and stuff solo but I wanted to save picard until after TNG, for obvious reasons,)

SIMILARLY no idea who they want their audience to be. it seems like 'white male nerds who liked the intellectual tng' and not 'freak housewives who wrote k/s porn based on the campy tos' but it's like not even that because it feels so thematically empty and so hollow because all they are doing is like, other episodes of star trek and/or sci fi but slightly worse. like mr m0vieblog says every review of snw needs to save a paragraph for listing out every other star trek episode that has done the concept better.

it seems to exist because people liked anton mount in discovery (which wasn't because he was good it was because season 2 of discovery was terrible,) and because spock is a Recognizable Likable Entity. so like it exists because it seems like there would be an audience and, thus, money for it, NOT because the writers thought they had a new take on spock, the federation, the star trek universe, or anything, and it shows. it's a show really without a point of view and doesn't really have anything to say -- about star trek or anything, in my opnion, that doesn't really have a reason to exist besides making money. and you can tell that when you look at spock and pike's relationship! what has strange new worlds SAID about their relationship? It's gotten a decent amount of screen time but what do we know about spock and pike's relationship that we couldn't have inferred from the cage or even the menagerie? and it's clear the show has nothing new to say there! they have nothing to add, no thoughts, no perspectives, no idea what they WANT the spock pike relationship to be OR what they want to say to say about and that's why the relationship falls so flat!! or as i like to put it. spock/pike truthers work hard but anton mount and ethan peck having sub zero chemistry with each other works harder!!