2026-02-27 03:23:53
Content warning: Starfleet Academy S01E08
One thing that grinds my gears about both SA and DISCO are that they don't fully engage with their premises, despite leaning on old, reasonably well-trodden foundations for them. "here, have some therapy" but no engagement with _why_ or what's going on. Show the audience why! Show how it works! But no we just skip to "adding therapy makes everything better" and that's not just bad storytelling, that's not how therapy works.
Repeat for all the other soft elements of the show. Interpersonal dynamics are all summed up, in ways that defeat the very premises they're trying to show.
I fully blame the run time for a lot of this. But geez.