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Except this is what I disliked about Discovery. You'd have ten minutes of activity that actually moved the plot forward, followed by twenty minutes of crew "checking in" with each other in order to discuss everyone's feelings about what just happened while also rehashing events from past episodes. It was like watching a Spanish telenovela, where every second piece of dialogue was intended to remind you of what happened in the last episode...just in case you forgot.
Every episode was 3/4 dialogue, discussing what we all watched happen in the first 1/4. It felt like every season should have taken 3 episodes...not 14. In the last couple of seasons, I literally skipped entire episodes, and it did nothing to impact the plot.
3rd screen content. you're not actually supposed to watch it, you're supposed to passively absorb it while doing something else.
That is sage advice. I think I've been doing it wrong, this whole time.
I prefer to think of it as they made a bad show on purpose, and then tried to claim that the reasons why it's bad are the reasons why it's good actually.
Don't get me wrong, the plot (what little of it I did see) was pretty good, and the acting was (mostly) pretty good, the set design and costuming and whatnot was pretty good. Very high production quality. The problems that you pointed out with the writing I 100% agree with, and relegate what could have been a great show to expensive background noise.
Dune Prophecy did the same thing, and it was in those conversations I found the term "3rd screen content". The studios really are doing this on purpose.
That's a fair criticism and I'm not telling you your opinion on the show is wrong. But Discovery did have its fans, and I think it's disrespectful to them and especially the cast & crew to say they deserved to get the Enterprise ending treatment, just because you didn't enjoy the show.
It's also against the #1 rule of this community
Disrespectful is telling people who didn’t like the show that they must not have gotten enough hugs from their father.