Could be just broadcasters getting ever more suspicious of leaks like they happened with game of thrones
Perhaps, but if you're that concerned about leaks I would think you wouldn't do the screening at all. This feels like they know what is coming, and it ain't good.
Agreed, you want to make sure people subscribe to the service, not having a good product goes against that. If it’s good there’s no reason not to get the word out. Companies usually out the embargo date close to or on release date if they’re not confident in it. Having the embargo end AFTER the episode airs is just odd. If they want to avoid spoilers then make them sign a NDA.
But reviewers have become super powerful in this era of infinite viewing choices, so bad reviews will mean people won't even give it a chance. Maybe they don't have confidence in it, or maybe this will be more and more common in future television and movies.
Amen to this. A friend whose office is near mine has figurines from all of the series on one of his shelves, and I asked him his plans for the show. Same idea. Not about to pay - and not trusting that it will be good.
Those opening credits are not very good. TNG, Voyager, DS9 were all about space exploration, nothing in there says that to me. Nothing. Well, guess we'll see how much I'll like it or hate in in a few hours.
It was....fine. Spoiler (Move your mouse to the spoiler area to reveal the content) Show Spoiler Hide Spoiler I can't believe they'd start the series by having the star physically assault a superior officer, but whatever. I'm sure they'll have a perfectly plausible reason to make her first officer of the Discovery. If the show was on a platform I had, I'd watch the next episode. Might have even watched the series. Oh well.
Watched both episodes since the wife has had a CBSAA subscription for months, I hate that there are commercials, but overall... Eh. I absolutely HATE the Klingons, not a fan of the communication tech in the ships since we don’t see something like that until the later seasons of DS9, quite a few Easter eggs, a few things taken from the Kelvinverse as well. Oh and did I say how much I HATE the Klingons?
They have two levels of service, the $6 one has commercials, if you want it commercial free you have to pay $10.
So I saw the first episode. I like it better than J.J. Abrams vision of Star Trek but it still doesn't feel quite like Trek. I didn't like the Klingon iconography. Somehow it felt like it belonged in the Stargate universe rather than in Trek. I can't really fault the cast, they are fine for the most part. I didn't like the contrived nature of the Commanders little mission to examine the beacon. Surely there would have been other ways to examine the object even if the sensors could not pierce through the radiation, like sending in a probe? It's interesting that Dante hates the opening credits when that was probably the only thing I truly loved.
Upon multiple viewings I like it (the opening credits that is), the score to it is nice, but it still doesn't emote a sense of space and discovery to me. There's so much I dislike about the first two episodes, so much, but the Klingons are the worst. They've somehow managed to make them even more cliched.
I watched the first episode and thought it was pretty good. Hope all the pew, pew, pewing (in the preview) is gonna just be early on as a hook and we get some more discovering. I actually think I will subscribe to CBS to watch this.
This woman concisely and accurately describes that I think is missing. What I mean when I say that it doesn't yet feel like Trek. And yes, I know that there were entire story arcs devoted to war in the shows she refers to, but the strength of Trek for me was always what happened in the quieter moments.
To her point, there is a reason why so many scenes in the previous Trek series take place in the mess halls (including the captain's private mess hall), or Quark's bar, or even within taverns, restaurants and the like during holodeck scenarios.
She might want to give Enterprise a shot. I wrote it off too early when it was on, but now I rank it pretty high, with a few episodes in consideration for Ten Best in Franchise discussion.
Not that I was truly tempted before, but there's no way I drop additional money on their service and then accept that they show commercials still. I will skip the DVR'd episode one we have, too. As an old friend used to say, this is an up with which I will not put.
I forgot to set up the recording, but it's highly unlikely that we would subscribe to any pay streaming service - netflix is slow enough for us and our crappy DSL internet service that we would most likely not be happy campers. My wife and I have seen the first three episodes of "The Orville" and my wife's main comment was, it made her miss "real" Star Trek. But "The Orville" may be the closest thing to old school Trek that is available right now. My wife was a big fan of Enterprise. If you can make it past the first couple of seasons with the tedious "temporal cold war" or whatever the hell they called it, it was pretty good after that.
It will take, what, 7 months to show the first season? There is no way the Blu-Ray will cost that much.