In general, season 1 was quite good and promising. I liked the retro stand alone episodic approach. Season 2 however has removed all of my promise.
The reason being, none of the characters behave in a believable way, and are all too far up themselves for me to care about them.
The crew, especially the bridge crew, are working under a chain of command, in potentially dangerous situations. Yet they show their superiors zero respect, in fact quite the opposite, they often talk down to them with sly remarks and belittling comments, which the senior officers then happily accept. Someone of the same rank would not stand for these remarks, let alone a ranking officer, and on the bridge in front of the other crew for all that matter. It's just completely unrealistic and the ship would have descended into complete chaos within weeks in reality.
This has to be my biggest complaint so far and it is hugely putting me off the show. We don't need to go back to the largely rigid environment of TNG, but the current trend completely takes me out of the emersion of the show and leaves me eye rolling.
For some reason, the writers have decided to write the crew as negative, moany, childish characters who seem to think of themselves as quite infallible, often making smug remarks... until an episode calls for some random past event that is shoehorned into the episode to explain why they are acting scared/shy/timid etc. Which is completely out of character or context at the time.
It's become a cheap writing trick used to avoid any actual intellectual character development or real emotion the audience can connect with for more than a couple of minutes.
The show is not terrible, but it's becoming more and more of a cheap emotion grab with weak character back stories, of characters who have been written as very unlikeable people in the first place.
Finally, this show largely came about due to Anson Mounts impact as Captain Pike on Discovery, yet he is barely a bit part character in this. If you didn't know he was the Captain and in charge of the ship, you'd never guess! The writers need to remember why people wanted this show in the first place as currently, my interest in Captain Pike and his adventures before Kirk on the Enterprise is very much waning.
The reason being, none of the characters behave in a believable way, and are all too far up themselves for me to care about them.
The crew, especially the bridge crew, are working under a chain of command, in potentially dangerous situations. Yet they show their superiors zero respect, in fact quite the opposite, they often talk down to them with sly remarks and belittling comments, which the senior officers then happily accept. Someone of the same rank would not stand for these remarks, let alone a ranking officer, and on the bridge in front of the other crew for all that matter. It's just completely unrealistic and the ship would have descended into complete chaos within weeks in reality.
This has to be my biggest complaint so far and it is hugely putting me off the show. We don't need to go back to the largely rigid environment of TNG, but the current trend completely takes me out of the emersion of the show and leaves me eye rolling.
For some reason, the writers have decided to write the crew as negative, moany, childish characters who seem to think of themselves as quite infallible, often making smug remarks... until an episode calls for some random past event that is shoehorned into the episode to explain why they are acting scared/shy/timid etc. Which is completely out of character or context at the time.
It's become a cheap writing trick used to avoid any actual intellectual character development or real emotion the audience can connect with for more than a couple of minutes.
The show is not terrible, but it's becoming more and more of a cheap emotion grab with weak character back stories, of characters who have been written as very unlikeable people in the first place.
Finally, this show largely came about due to Anson Mounts impact as Captain Pike on Discovery, yet he is barely a bit part character in this. If you didn't know he was the Captain and in charge of the ship, you'd never guess! The writers need to remember why people wanted this show in the first place as currently, my interest in Captain Pike and his adventures before Kirk on the Enterprise is very much waning.