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TV Tuesdays Free Talk
Have you watched any TV shows recently you want to discuss? Any shows you want to recommend or are hyped about? Feel free to discuss anything here.
Please just try to provide fair warning of spoilers if you can.
I really like how the Knight of the Seven Kingdoms is staying faithful to the source material. I enjoyed the novellas and I'm enjoying the television rendering.
An extremely negative and impolite take on Starfleet Academy
I watched two episodes of Star Trek: Starfleet Academy. I'm sorry, I don't have any diplomatic words to share. Is this what a bad young adult novel feels like? What is it that I'm watching? How many times do I need to gratuitously see the protagonist's biceps and abs? Yes, he's attractive. I get it. Move the fuck on. And an entire diplomatic conundrum is resolved through the force of cheap romanticism? What do they even say to each other? What kind of inane, generic, worse-than-soap-opera dialogue for 14-year-olds is this? Dear God, I am not the target audience for this at all. Which begs the question, who is the target audience for this? How many teenagers are begging for Star Trek themed romantasy?
As I keep watching SFA (because why not, it's just five episodes...), I have another comment: what is so woke about this show? If SFA is "woke", it must be safest, mildest, most apologetic "woke" I have ever seen. I'm pretty sure most nu-trek and a significant portion of the TNG era are more woke than SFA.