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Notreadingthatnotreadingthatnotreadingthat because I haven't seen it yet (woe is me). I'm just here to express my amusement about how lately every week we seem to get "the best Star Trek ever" ;D
Edit: Seen it now and daaaang.
I think a person who thinks the new episode is "the best ever" is much more motivated to make a post than someone who thinks it was fine. The result: each episode has someone making a "best episode ever" post.
What a great problem to have!
Not a problem at all, but it does sound curious on the surface, don't you think? ;)
It is a rather impressive run. I'm curious how long it can go before the typical "fan backlash" phase takes place.
We are well into/towards the end of season 2 of SNW, and fans have generally been loving it. I think it's fair to say that SNW has been and will likely be successful for a while. SNW certainly has one of the best first seasons (along with Lower Decks).
The backlash is usually first for Trek, then when a new show comes out the last one is suddenly an underappreciated gem. Not sure what that means for SNW.
SNW is an anomaly in that it started as a spinoff to a show that was already contentious within fandom. Unlike previous iterations that began while another show was still on the air, SNW benefited from comparison to the already existing show. Fans were hungry for something different.
It helped that Discovery was such garbage, and the Pike/Enterprise plotline showed us what could have been instead of what was. SNW was the show we wanted when all we had was Discovery. And now it's great to see that they seem to have recovered that lost magic.
Credit is definitely owed to Discovery for giving us this iteration of Pike, Una, and Spock. Flawed and uneven as that show is, they did hit this one out of the park.
Very true. Whatever we can say about Discovery, they did give this one to us.