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Case:
I'm binging on Discovery right now, and thoroughly enjoying myself - though I have to agree it's not the Trek my Mom told me about.
I don't feel like sorting it into drawers right now (not beyond the obvious, like: No, it's still Trek to me. Yes ... those poor, poor Klingons ...), but some random impressions:
(click to show/hide)* Gods, does the camera ever love Sonequa Martin-Green's noggin? Doesn't bother me, I like it, too. To my mild surprise, she worked really well as a POV-character for lil' ole white-hetcis-me, really engaging - Chris Pine e.g. doesn't even make it to two-dimensional by comparison.
* Michelle Yeoh has just re-defined Badass. I think that if she ever raised an eyebrow at me, I might actually wet myself. On second thought: Make that a 'would'. I hadn't really known she was a martial arts performer - and did a spit-take when she did the River-Tam-tribute highkick (into the teeth of the guy standing behind her), like she's 21 instead of 55.
* First time I really, really dug a gay romance in a show. Anthony Rapp's Lt. Stamets is one of my favourite characters anyhow, but Rapp's scenes with Wilson Cruz are magic. I grew up in the 80s and ... yup, this really did something for me & my noggin'.
* Shazad Latif's performance was great in its examination of trauma and betrayal, and in general, I rarely say no to raw-and in-your-face, but with him and Martin-Green doing so much emotional heavy lifting so often, it did get close to 'numbing' at times. Not 'bad', just 'too much'. And they didn't really feel like a couple to me. Some of their most intimate moments are in the two scenes they're saying goodbye to each other in.
If I had any criticism with the acting (like I know shit about acting ...), it'd be this: There's a lot of raw emotion in Season 1, and a lot of actors who know how to open themselves up and get it across - but that's just it: It's a lot. Could also be down to my binge-watching it.
LeeC:
--- Quote from: Case on 02 Feb 2019, 14:46 --- Mostly though, I think its down to Archer being "Air Force rather than Navy"
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That is a good way to put it.
Case:
--- Quote from: Akima on 25 Sep 2017, 02:23 ---And I've already read internet comments that can't spell Shenzhou...
--- Quote from: Kugai on 24 Sep 2017, 19:54 ---YouTube Reviewer Emergency Awesome has just dropped a Non-Spoilery Review of Discovery after he Previewed the first two Episodes
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And this guy can't pronounce Shenzhou. Shen-zoo? :roll: It is shen-joe! Not difficult! Unless you're just using Chinese stuff as set dressing, and don't care about getting it right.
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Yeah ... imagine that Han were the most common ethnic heritage in the US and they couldn't find one single damn' native speaker to teach the actors not to sound like trepanation patients when they try to say a simple sentence in Mandarin ...
(Season 2, Ep 4 - Cpt. Pike sounds like he's on a bad acid trip ...)
Akima:
--- Quote from: Case on 02 Feb 2019, 15:13 ---Michelle Yeoh has just re-defined Badass. I think that if she ever raised an eyebrow at me, I might actually wet myself. On second thought: Make that a 'would'. I hadn't really known she was a martial arts performer - and did a spit-take when she did the River-Tam-tribute highkick (into the teeth of the guy standing behind her), like she's 21 instead of 55.
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:roll: Heh... To me that sounds like someone not really knowing that John Wayne made Westerns, but that just goes to show what cultural silos we live in. Ms. Yeoh made her cinema debut in martial-arts dramas in 1985, though her original training was as a ballet dancer. "River Tam tribute"? Puh-lease, if anything it's the other way round. :P But for me, she's the best thing in Discovery so far.
I stopped watching Discovery after the first few episodes, and only came back to it recently. I'm still not convinced, but I'm not as negative as I was after watching the first few episodes of Season One. I find the biggest flaw is the clunky dialogue they give characters, especially Michael Burnham, which just doesn't sound like the way real people speak.
JoeCovenant:
--- Quote from: Akima on 14 Feb 2019, 03:37 --- Ms. Yeoh made her cinema debut in martial-arts dramas in 1985...
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Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon - yo!
:)
(OT: Yeah, I kinda like Discovery!) :)
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