• lengau@midwest.social
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    16 hours ago

    Yeah this shit irritates me in part because I feel like Discovery has lazy writing, but it’s hard to make those criticisms of it because as soon as you start people dismiss you as a shitlord because they assume you think it’s that shit.

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      13 hours ago

      Agreed with the reaction to criticisms. My biggest problem with Discovery is the fact that, during the last two seasons especially, you’d frequently have some insanely huge event taking place that also has a ticking clock and the crew will just stop trying to solve the event so they can have a little talk about their feelings.

      I have no problem with Star Trek talking about people’s feelings. I have no problem with Burnham’s arc effectively being about her seeing the value of her emotions (after having been raised by Vulcans). I have no problem with a Star Trek show having scenes of therapy or whatnot. I have huge problems with these things happening IN THE MIDDLE OF A TICKING CLOCK GALAXY WIDE CRISIS. You’re supposed to be professionals. Get it together, finish the mission, then deal with all of this in debrief!

      But some might read this and think that I’m “hur dur, Michael Burnham is crying all the time.” Nope.

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      2 hours ago

      There are a lot of people out there who are “totally ok with the gays” but put such a high bar on what constitutes acceptable representation that it starts to feel like bigotry by omission.

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        16 hours ago

        Yeah, I agree. That’s the thing — I have no problem with whatever “woke” stuff people are complaining about. My complaints are things like “this is the first time anyone in Star Trek (outside of time travel) mentioned inches.”

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          8 hours ago

          My complaints are things like “this is the first time anyone in Star Trek (outside of time travel) mentioned inches.”

          Why are you blaming Disco for something that TNG did?

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          4 hours ago

          ok hey it’s the guy from the meme

          sorry the representation wasn’t discussed precisely the way you wanted

          also star trek has always been like that

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              I understand, you like representation, you’re happy it’s there, you just believe it should only be talked about it extremely specific ways or not at all. That’s what Patrick is doing in the first panel.