I just finished season 1 of Discovery and thought it was essentially flawless, though there was very little social commentary outside of Taran space nazis
Though it did deal with sexual assault and PTSD well, and other personal issues.
Season 1 of discovery was insane from start to finish, it was like when Game of Thrones was still good
youtube-dl is outdated and unmaintained, yt-dlp is the currently maintained fork and should work much better
Correct, youtube-dl is outdated and unmaintained
It has to be blatant because people miss the point regularly.
I hadn't thought about that, it makes me think then about whether the stories could remain as blatant but have more depth. For example the court episode didn't have any story beyond 'Society (and Admiral April) is hypocritical and and racist' by demonstrating it through one person's story, and at the end of the story nothing has changed. I'm watching Discovery now and it's going for a similarly blatant racial and cultural purity is evil antagonist so far, but it feels like it's setting it up to be the antagonists' folly, which would be more of an interesting story.
You don't have criticisms for things you like? I like the show, this and the writing are really the only weaknesses it has in my view. Everything else in the list I gave about it is absolutely 10/10
Correct. How do you propose I live in the modern world without a phone that uses cobalt?
There is a phrase that describes this situation: "There is no ethical consumption under capitalism"
There is nothing I can do while living in the modern world without benefitting from exploitation or encouraging evil, that's the point of the The Good Place quote I included.
I'm already depressed about it, I don't really want to be berated for it when there's nothing I can do about it. I already buy all my clothes second hand, fight my phone and laptop for basic privacy rights, vote for the least evil politician I can, I don't own a car.
Fun fact the war from 1914-1918 is called world war two in America because WW1 was Lincoln vs Racism
Also World Champions of American Football
Absolutely yes, of course.
Yes I get that, I simply find it doesn't achieve that goal and that its attempts to do so are without subtlety and overly contemporary, I'm now watching Discovery and in S01E03 or so, Captain Lorca cites Elon Musk as a great innovator.
The show is already dated and it's only 5 years old, that's a major downside.
I think it's primarily the shallow depth of the prejudice confrontation that causes the problem, I don't remember any episodes so far which didn't feel like primary school level metaphors for racism etc. A more tactful and/or deeper writer would perhaps cause me no issues
The visuals are crazy good, though the first few episodes of season 1 had some questionable makeup
As I said somewhere else in this comment tree, Strange New Worlds was my first series.
I've now finished Discovery season 2, and holy moly they ruined that in a hurry. The writing quality difference between seasons 1 and 2 gave me whiplash, the middle of the season it got a bit better and then the ending did a game of thrones and retroactively made the rest of the season even worse.
So yeah, loved season 1 mainly because it was like a whole new series every 3 episodes, hated season 2 because it was 3 bad movies stretched across 14 episodes