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I want the calendar agenda flyout back on my taskbar

The country.

As mandated in their invisible job description

I agree, I exaggerated out of frustration. The mood here, and the IMDB ratings, show that it’s really a hit with the fans.

I quite like the show, but I find it jarring how the tone shifts so dramatically between episodes.

Maybe if the goofiness had been spread over 20+ episodes of a season, it wouldn’t have felt that way. But 3/10 (out of 9, so far, I’m still hoping I can watch the last episode) just seems too high a ratio.

These are not comedy episodes, this is a comedy series. With a PTSD episode shoved in the middle for some reason.

So the only options are: rehash old Trek plots or rehash wacky American TV tropes?

Has chatGPT really run dry this quickly?

Wasn’t this supposed to be the spin off that took us back to star trek? After Dystopian trek and Geriatric Trek, we saw a little bit in season 1 of star treking.

This season, we’re going to have had: Spock’s comedy capers, a crossover with family guy and a high-school musical one-off.

We’ve gone from alien of the week to bad American TV genre of the week. Season finale is a mockumentary, The Office-syle, 4th wall breaking comedy. Cast members doing pieces to camera in fake interviews, Spock doing that look to the camera that whatever the attractive guy’s name was did.

I didn’t really want to post this, because I think it’s unnecessarily negative and people here seem to enjoy it.

But now that the cat’s out of the bag… I hate this type of humour so much. I feel like too much of it has already spilled into SNW, it makes it a difficult watch at times. The episode before last, for example.

A reference for the kids, that one.

I’ve got the worst fucking insurance company

“including business founders, CEOs” - Oh, well, that’s ok then. There was nothing to worry about, after all.

Exactly. It’s almost impossible to imagine anything about AI being ‘good’ because so little of any real substance is permitted to work for ‘good’.
It’ll work for profit, just like everything else.

looks like Richard D. James

Yep, I think so, too. I suppose it’s just reflective of the time that it’s made in; so much of film and TV (and games) is just re-boots, pre/sequels, remasters and remakes. It’s like it’s too big a risk, to try an stray too far from a perceived existing audience.

The point I dwell on for longer is the need for humour to be so prevalent in what is essentially a drama series. I keep repeating this in various threads, but I don’t like how often it’s used and how weak it is. I guess I’d rather watch something that’s Hornblower, rather than Family Guy.

I largely agree with that idea. It feels like at some point Trek will need to let go of all old characters, to ensure its long-term viability. Personally, I’d be happy to get to know a new group (crew) of characters, even if they’re not a famous character’s offspring. I guess that was the idea with Discovery, but the universe/story arcs that they created didn’t interest me too much.

I know that’s not really how shows work, people get enamored with the cast and roles, but I’d love to see a semi-regular shift in crew or ship, while the writers tackle the issues of the day allegorically.

Trek Culture referenced in their last video that Spock has become the comic relief, this series.

Am I suffering some kind of confirmation bias, or does Spock spend an unusually large amount of time expressing emotions, for someone who’s supposed to never express emotions?

EDIT: By way of addressing some of the replies to this post, without replying to them all individually, I just wanted to add this:
I’m not critiquing the handling of Spock’s character in relation to TOS or movies, Peck’s a great actor and is doing a fine job at interpreting this role.
The point I’m trying to make is that Spock (and data, T’pol, Tuvok, etc. after him) gets juxtaposed so often, it seems more entertainment-oriented than story-oriented. Like, “wouldn’t it be cool if they had to…”. The classic sitcom trope of putting the awkward person in a public-facing position, with hilarious consequences. It just seems like these hilarious consequences are occurring too often to call it character development.

I probably don’t need to ask, at this point, but will there be an agenda flyout back again?

Such a bad idea, in so many ways.

It seems likely to me that ‘pop’ music won’t be created by people. As a result, people won’t be made famous through music anymore, the cult of celebrity will move on to be more era-appropriate.

I mean, this only happened in the first place because it was extremely profitable to sell lots of records/concert tickets. That doesn’t seem to be the case now.

So, if pop music has been manufactured to sell an image to impressionable people, there’s little incentive to do that these days. It’s surely more lucrative to fund an influencer than a ‘musician’.