Star Trek Brave New Worlds - oh dear…
3 years late, this finally hits UK ‘free to air’ 🎉
reviews were great: ‘true to TOS’, ‘original characters’, ‘best of the spin-offs…’
I was excited
but three quarters thru S1E01 I’ve given up: the turgid dialogue is all plot, and worse the screenwriters feel they must explain the meaning of every ‘hip’ phrase one character says to another, where the meaning is obvious from context but it’s a ‘23rd century’ idiomatic arrangement of words that maybe viewers won’t understand because they’ve never heard that particular exact same arrangement of words before
so it’s continual:
Spock: plot
Pike: plot plot
Security Officer: invented idiom by ‘clever’ scriptwriter (meaning obvious ) +immediate explanation of idiom meaning…
Nurse Chapel: more plot
and then there’s the usual dull CGI-heavy visuals. TOS was shot on film, the restored BR discs (≈14.4 Mbps per show, much higher than streaming ≈5Mbps) are a pleasure to watch, bright colourful images, engaging characters and HUMOUR!
All this was missing
DNF’d