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submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by Stamets@lemmy.world to c/tenforward@lemmy.world

I said a while back that I was gonna change my name due to my obscene displeasure with the final season but... nah. I'm Stamets. I love my lil gay boy and I love his lil gay family and I love the ship with the weirdly long nacelles.

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[-] model_tar_gz@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago

Actually I really did enjoy both TNG and Disco. Very different approaches in storytelling (episodic vs serialized). But you seem like you wanted Disco to be more like Lower Decks—not the hero of the fleet/timeline, not the supership of the timeline.

Wanting something to be something else is truly the supreme recipe for disappointment and distracts from appreciation of what something is and actually is, for all its flaws and charms.

[-] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 11 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Ok.

So you're saying I'm wrong to have watched it at all, should shut up, accept it wasn't made for me, walk away and stop sharing opinions online?

If we really boil it down, I wanted discos writing to be less contrived, less forced in its emotional high points, and more consistent and restrained in its fantastical worldbuilding.

[-] model_tar_gz@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

Well I would not have said it like that.

You’re shouting at the sky here; angry because it’s raining on what was supposed to be a sunny day. The writers aren’t listening to you or me or anyone else, and it’s already been filmed and published, so what’s the point? To inspire a reboot where everything is done differently? Or just for some catharsis?

The only way to win a game of “immovable object vs unstoppable force” is to not play at all.

[-] Lemjukes@lemm.ee 8 points 3 months ago

It’s an Internet forum/meme post about Star Trek… shouting at the sky/into the void how you feel about the show is kind of the whole point. People get satisfaction and fulfillment from expressing themselves. That’s it, there doesn’t have to be a purpose or real world goal here. Where do you think you are? Standing outside the paramount lot watching someone bang on the windows pleading for someone to listen to them?

[-] samus12345@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago

The point is to offer your opinion of a show in a public forum. Star Trek fans in particular have been doing this for over 30 years. Why is this such a problem for you?

[-] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 6 points 3 months ago

Or just for some catharsis?

Yes. When it comes to communication on things that don't actually significantly impact reality, such as governmental policy, was there ever any greater point than that? (Except for when fiction comments on things like governmental policy.)

The only way to win a game of “immovable object vs unstoppable force” is to not play at all.

The logical endpoint of that logic is both of us deleting our accounts and never interacting with others online again.

I don't subscribe to it.

[-] model_tar_gz@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

You’re right, and I apologize. I was kind of being a dick. Tough day, and it was unfair to take that out on the world. I respect your right to have and voice an opinion, and although my intent was not to squelch or suppress I acknowledge that that is the effect of my message.

I will leave my messages there, downvotes and mistake and all. Steel sharpens steel.

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