Why Strange New Worlds SUCKS MORE NOW!

Rickman’s performance in Galaxy Quest WAS a tour de force. Thanks for that reminder of a movie that doesn’t suck.

I agree with your assessment of SNW. As a career military i would add that i dispise the friendly and/subservient relationships between superior officers and subordinates; the latest episode was the worst when Pike asks Uhura what to do. Although friends, Spock and McCoy knew who was in charge. Even when McCoy would address Kirk as Jim it was never used at the expense of Kirk's authority.

You don't write your characters to fit the script, you write your script to fit the characters. Characters are more important to viewers than any other aspect of your show, especially when they're well-known characters. In TV, this has been going on for decades, and writers seem shocked when people complain. But it's always a sign that the quality of the show is going downhill.

Agreed. I can't watch this any more. The storylines don't seem at all like science fiction, or social commentary or philosophical reflection which were hallmarks of earlier Star Treks. It's more like a badly-written soap opera. Pike and Spock have been completely emasculated: Pike rarely appears on the bridge and seems to spend most of his time cooking. Spock moons around over his various love interests like an teenager, but I've yet to see him do any science. M'Benga and Christine Chapel go around beating up people. Annoying, rude junior officers are constantly second-guessing everyone and opining at length about their personal issues. Where, actually, are the Strange New Worlds we're supposed to be exploring? What new life have we discovered? Why aren't we boldly going anywhere? Whither, Star Trek?

The lack of humanism in Star Trak is the real deal killer for me.

The writers are also telling the world how bitter they are. They can't laugh with someone. They can only laugh at them.

Bad writing and incompetence is what happens when you hire on the basis of skin color, politics and pseudo-genders rather than, gasp, ability and experience.

You nailed the tonal shift between the original series and SNW versions of Spock and how humor was handled. It was loving jabs not pratfall humor at the character’s expense. And yes, the rules set in place by Roddenberry were thrown out the window a long time ago. Yeah he had some wonky ideas for those us more steeped in behind the scenes Trek. But, his many of his rules forced the writers to come up with creative inventive ways to create drama. Which up until 2005 were for the most part were carried forth by the Berman era. SNW isn’t written by fully functional adults with genuine life experiences. It’s written by hacks with perceived life experiences.

Subtlety is a lost art. It used to be that a good actor could convey what they were thinking just by the look on their faces. You could get a whole paragraph worth of information just from one look.. As you said, figuring out with what "that look" means makes the whole thing fun, and in my opinion makes it much more personal.

The funny thing is I've heard much of this advice not 5 years ago at good writing classes in some post secondary schools. I'm absolutely astonished how fast and deep woke has been utterly erasing not just competency but inserting outright malice. I can't find any writing classes that teach like this anymore. And based on the need they should be ALL over.

You're a braver man than I am if you bothered watching it in the first place. Regrettably, the safe bet has been to ignore what Hollywood has placed before us for the past decade or so. If you ask for a pepperoni pizza and I hand you a piece of broccoli on toast, I shouldn't expect to be praised. The public doesn't care about the strike in Hollywood because they do less damage to the franchises we enjoy if they aren't working.

As a screenwriter myself, I have learned SOOOO much from watching your videos. I will continue to be a devoted follower.

I managed to get half way through the last episode and decided I'd had enough. It was the most cringeworthy thing I've ever seen. The guy playing Spock can't act for shit, and the way they're treating his character borders on the sacrilegious. This ain't Star Trek. 🙄 🍄

TOS was written in such a way that character development could take place without taking huge amounts of screen timt. Real Uhura and real Sulu are examples of well fleshed out deeply defined characters despite limited screen time and not a lot of backstory

Spock is written like Sheldon from Big Bang. The "nerd" crowd that watched Big Bang Theory (that was really about mocking nerd culture) seem to love this type of episode because Star Trek is a meme to them, it's all "meta".

I am more than frustrated at this show. The writers have done a tremendous disservice to these characters , actors, and franchise. I appreciate that you're sharing how a lot of people feel. Watching other people that I respect gush over this show and feeling like we are watching two different shows is mind-numbing, and it's getting progressively worse. I actually liked parts of season 1, but there is nothing I have liked so far about season 2. But, I will tune in week after week, hoping it will get better because I love the franchise, and one can always hope.

Well said, Chato. You've summed up why almost all of our favorite franchises are now garbage. The ironic thing about the writer's strike is that there's almost nothing that I'm looking forward to, so I really don't care. Now that YouTube Premium is providing a lot of old movies I've been enjoying quality stuff the likes of which you can't get any more. I was unfamiliar with "The Sunshine Boys", which you mentioned recently, and I saw it about a month ago and was really impressed at how good and funny it was. I then learned that George Burns won an Oscar for it after not even being in a movie for the better part of 30 years.

True about the jabs at Spock in TOS, but Spock was always able to send the jab right back at Bones as well. If NuSpock threw a barb back at one of the new crew, I'm sure there'd be internet outrage. Also a note about the scene where the female bridge crew one-up the Starfleet IT crew. One of them says they've customized their console to be more efficient. It may be more efficient for her, but having standardized settings makes sense especially in a combat situation. If said bridge officer is injured, someone else can quickly take control of their station. You don't want someone jumping in the seat and saying "WTF (they'd actually probably say it) is this??" NuTrek is so dumb.

Dear god I hope at least SOME Hollywood writers are subscribers to your channel. You basically just gave a fantastic, free lesson that frankly is worth its weight in gold to those writers who pay attention and learn.

Completely on point and some of the critical reasoning I couldn't watch STD for more than one season.