Teaser trailer.
Thats exactly it, Michelle Yeoh is a fine, versatile and strong actor. It's the stage theatrics of mirror Georgiou that just doesn't work...at all.
I'm all for strong female characters, hell I've just finished The Acolyte and loved every second of it (genuinely don't get the hate, it puts the sequel films to shame), but mirror Georgiou is just baaaaaad in every way.
I remember being a fan of Tilly in Season 1. She was a lovable dork who was a excellent foil to Burnham's dark/intensive brooding in the early days. Alas, I feel that the producers somehow learned that Tilly had fans, and instead of just keeping things going natually, they doubled down on her and we get stupidity like "The Power of Math!" and her tripping over her own tongue when an Admiral is on the bridge. They never seemed to get back to Season 1 Tilly after that, and never really seemed to know how to write for her in general either. If these are the same people running Academy, I can't imagine things improving.
Georgio was an excellent Starfleet captain in the pilot episode. I would have totally watched an entire Trek show with her as Captain. Alas no…as you mention we get "Arachnia! QUEEEEEN of the SPIDER PEOPLE!" (…."Activate the Lightning Shield!!"). If she had a mustache she would have twirled it so much it may have become a mini-helecopter and lifted her off screen. No respect what-so-ever for this character. If the whole point of her is to be a "girl-boss bad ass" I have seen countless better examples of this. If Section 31 is just more of this, then they really shouldn't have bothered assembling Wish .com's version of Guardians of the Galaxy to hang out with her, it's just not going to be worth it.
"I know Discovery is terrible, but the main and central character in ST: Picard is Picard, they should have just called Disco, ST: Burnham."
FYP and yes I agree Disco might as well have been called "ST Bernham."
At least Academy will be honest about being a young adult show unlike Disco which was clearly written that way despite being told it wasn't.
The same crowd who loved all that over emotional crap loved the "girl boss" emperor.
I would say to those watching at the time, be they fans, fans still optimistically watching, disappointed fans, and indeed hate watchers, it was very apparent that Mount lit season 2 up in a way that the regular cast did not.
Tilly and Space Hitler getting spinoffs....Tilly certainly did have a fan base in the early days, she kind of represented the everyday person in extraordinary situations etc....that did seem to fade for me at least, and the character veered on a different path, though she still had her moments...i kinda get the clueless execs green lighting her a show based on initial reactions to her.
Space Hitler, yeah, no idea on that one. A scenery chewing theatrical villain not wholly removed from an episode of a Queen of Arachnia type affair.
Section 31 will likely be a total write-off. The academy show will be like Discovery, a complete waste of a premise I imagine.
Ok so fans and people who casually watched it and the people who hate watched it wanted SNW.
They definitely did not all think he was "by FAR" the best thing though because Discovery got another 3 seasons and 2 other big stars of season 2 in Tilly and Space Hitler are getting spinoffs too.
Agreed per se, but I'm not sure SNW is down to 'Discovery fans' myself. It was just blindingly obvious to most watching Discovery (and likely to those funding the show) that Anson Mount was by FAR the best thing about Discovery season 2, and a show centered around him was a safe bet to expand into.
I would say it is terrible and I'm almost certain S31 will be. I was just pointing out that it's wrong to say people didn't want a Disco spinoff.
Most of us are happy it got one.
The difference being, SNW is actually good.
I know Discovery is not terrible, but the main and central character in ST: Picard is Picard, they should have just called Disco, ST: Burnham.
Well there was enough of them to get Strange New Worlds made.
I'm surprised they could find 3 Discovery fans.
Well Discovery fans did ask and they got 3 of them.
Jesus I couldn't even get through the teaser trailer.
No-one, I repeat no-one asked for a spin off of Discovery. Initially I was excited about a series dedicated to Section 31, but while being a fan of Michelle Yeo, I really dont like the character of Phillipa Georgou. They surely have enough Section 31 material without her being the central character?
I think this will be a hard pass from me as well.
With added sassy girl boss.
Looks like a mix of Discovery and the third nu Trek movie, mixed with a CW writers trash can
Is there absolutely any reason why that character needs to be Rachel Garrett. It's just getting so tiresome.
I'll probably check this out, but absolutely no way I'll pay for it. I've paid for Paramount+ with each show - but not this.
Said in the general thread but it looks so generic, and like some demo feel than any cohesive, actual franchise.
Are the actors' voices going to be distorted to comply with regulations?
section 31 was a poor storyline in ds9 can't see me searching out this.
Its 1948, the world believes Hitler is dead after murdering millions of Jews, Gypsies, homosexuals & the disabled.
But now, he's joined a secretive subgroup of MI6 to save Democracy from the threat of Communism.
The look and sound of multi million dollar creative bankruptcy right there.
Hard pass. It looks like it took all the awful bits of the Discovery approach, and ramped them up to 11. Completely devoid of ANYTHING that Star Trek represents. I'll be surprised if it's even worth pirating.
