Discovery had a painfully long and exceedingly meaningless arc about a character’s struggles with society’s views on their gender… When said society doesn’t have any negative views at all.
Who’s character arc are you talking about here? I don’t think that describes anything that happened in the show.
I’ve been anticipating a twist with her character for the whole season. We never saw the crime she was accused of. We only saw her with her six old son, or playing to the sympathies of the authorities. There’s no reason to be convinced that she was as innocent in the matter as she pretended to be.
Such an annoying response. Personality is not on the menu. You get tits or you get ass, make your choice.
It’s like playing a game of fuck/marry/kill with a list of celebrities and someone says “well obviously I’m going to marry my wife Charlene”. That’s not the damn game!
I don't think I could guess where this is going even if I had expertise in reading numbers like this. No matter how good SFA's raw numbers are, it may get cancelled anyway simply because the new ownership wants to take the franchise in a different direction. On the other hand, no matter how bad SFA's raw numbers are, if the numbers it does have are from desirable new demographics it might be a good enough business case for them to keep it around. 🤷♀️
It sounds like we ought to hear if Kurtzman's contract is renewed or not fairly soon, which seems like it would be a pretty strong indicator one way or the other.
Seriously, had I seen a gay Klingon on TNG I would have completely gone with it because TNG had (mostly) great writers that would make some awesome episode about it that would make you think and talk about it for days.
Thank goodness, nothing like that. There's nothing to think or talk about, other than to shout down bigots. His relationship is built up in the background of unrelated episodes, given no more focus or fanfare than any other character's relationship. No one so much as says "huh, a gay Klingon". It's a non-issue. He's just matter-of-factly gay. In other words, they handled it perfectly.
I got a note like this once (minus the condom). When I had parked in the morning, there was an inch of snow on the ground so I could only park a reasonable distance from the person beside me. By afternoon, the snow had melted and the lines were visible. Sometimes people are just looking for a reason to be mad.
I wont say too much to spoil it, but my feelings on Picard's first season is that it started out with a huge amount of promise, then moved at a strangely slow pace for long enough that there wasn't any chance to properly resolve everything at the end. So a mess, but it had ambition and even those messier episodes had some lovely moments.
Oh, I hate it. The labourious mind-numbing action, the "we aspire and they don't" hand-wave resolution to the half-assed philosophical premise, the dozenth mind rape of Troi and Picard's callous response, it's all trash.
Don't get me wrong, it had some OK scenes. You had to learn about them after the fact, though, because they were all cut from the film! Cutting Picard's discussion with Data from the start, and the crew's visit to his quarters at the end, is as good as cutting the Kobayashi Maru and funeral sequences from TWoK. They wouldn't have saved the thing, but they would have given Data's death at least a little emotional weight.
Left a bad taste in my mouth for twenty years. Thank goodness Picard came along to revisit these characters. It was a mess, but I'll take any season of Picard as a superior send-off to the TNG era than this movie.
I learned about those prints sometime in the '90s, and eventually tracked down a set for myself in the early days of ebay. Possibly my first online purchase, I was very excited.
You can find your missing page and most of the accompanying technical manual here:
https://cygnus-x1.net/links/lcars/blueprints-main2.php
The real competency porn in Darmok is in the writing. Picard doesn't just learn the alien's strange way of communicating, the audience learns it along with him. It has the same ending as The Big Goodbye, with Picard striding onto the bridge and saying the exact right thing as no one else could, but this time we clearly understand the entire nonsense exchange. It's just perfectly done.
Saru actually has a similar moment of linguistic badassery in Discovery, not the episode's climax or anything, but it contributes to how much I appreciate his character as well.
Who’s character arc are you talking about here? I don’t think that describes anything that happened in the show.