Finished up, also won't spoil.
Pretty good first season, very classic-trek-meets-serialized-teevee. Definitely not the 'what have you blown up for me lately' approach that's sort of the MO for any kind of series these days (I'm looking at you, Disco) but a slower, more thoughtful Roddenberry-like pace that most fans will remember from seasons of old. The classic pace really allowed the writers to develop storylines with a bit of finesse as opposed to slamming them on the screen and moving onto the next scene.
Unfortunately, I'm not sure if there's enough staying power to compete in 2020, which is a bummer. From a historical perspective the season is SIGNIFICANTLY more put together than TNG season 1 (for instance) but as evidence by comments above even pretty die hard fans are giving it a ho-hum. I think the monotone serialized aspect of today's series is especially difficult in sci-fi (as opposed to the historical-adjacent The Crown or the distopian-suspense Handmaid where it works much better) as its really difficult to showcase different characters and especially different elements of the show's universe. Throughout ST history (and probably TV history) characters and elements/concepts of nuance/depth in the universe really haven't come into their own without at lest a secondary episode plot and usually a primary episode plot, and that's really hard to do unless its within a standalone episode.
If I were king I'd ask Ira to layer his brilliant balance of episodic and serialization onto a post-Abrams Star Trek universe for future seasons...
Pretty good first season, very classic-trek-meets-serialized-teevee. Definitely not the 'what have you blown up for me lately' approach that's sort of the MO for any kind of series these days (I'm looking at you, Disco) but a slower, more thoughtful Roddenberry-like pace that most fans will remember from seasons of old. The classic pace really allowed the writers to develop storylines with a bit of finesse as opposed to slamming them on the screen and moving onto the next scene.
Unfortunately, I'm not sure if there's enough staying power to compete in 2020, which is a bummer. From a historical perspective the season is SIGNIFICANTLY more put together than TNG season 1 (for instance) but as evidence by comments above even pretty die hard fans are giving it a ho-hum. I think the monotone serialized aspect of today's series is especially difficult in sci-fi (as opposed to the historical-adjacent The Crown or the distopian-suspense Handmaid where it works much better) as its really difficult to showcase different characters and especially different elements of the show's universe. Throughout ST history (and probably TV history) characters and elements/concepts of nuance/depth in the universe really haven't come into their own without at lest a secondary episode plot and usually a primary episode plot, and that's really hard to do unless its within a standalone episode.
If I were king I'd ask Ira to layer his brilliant balance of episodic and serialization onto a post-Abrams Star Trek universe for future seasons...
