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I really could not get into SNW. The almost Marvel-satire-level of constant asides and quips takes me out of it. It wants to be a gorgeous, serious show, a wannabe campy homage, and a modern Marvel action-funny, and eat its cake, too.
Contrast to DS9/TNG, where the show is campy but not self-aware, SNW oscillates between winking at the audience and tearjerker storyline in too small of an interval, consistently.
/review
Absolutely not mArVeL-esque at all, did we watch the same show??
I swear to god anytime a non-comedy show includes some levity these days there’s always someone that manages to cry and make it about marvel.
Yeah, I enjoy SNW halfheartedly but it never hits the mark for me. I think you hit the nail on its head with your points about tonal whiplash, and the fandom pandering that Marvel and others have honed to to a formula.
What I find most jarring is that the show runners introduce this lovely crew of the pre-Kirk Enterprise, ripe for character exploration, and then either saddle them with "alternate timeline Kirk romance", or sideline them to fill in some previously non-existing blanks in Spock's love life...
I had been fine with a SNW show that was just Pike and his crew boldly going, but I personally feel like it's hampered by scorecard TOS nostalgia. Clearly this is just my opinion, I do love it that people are so hyped over Star Trek again! I'm just jonesing for something that points to the show's future, not another Spock/Kirk recast...