Star Trek: Discovery (Season 2) [R]

So no official date yet?

 

Thanks

 

Yeah, it was pretty annoying.

From the rumors, the shorts were meant to be a cheap way to make up some money from the foreign markets using sets and actors during their down-times from filming season 2, but it totally failed as Netflix nether wanted it at CBS's crazy original price ($40 million for 4 13-minute episodes!?!?) nor after their desperate, pathetic reductions in price. The head honchos at CBS are very very concerned about the high cost and low ratings of Discovery.

 

What were they expecting? People enjoy ST and some for a it but it was never gonna get huge ratings.

 

You are probably right, but it could have been managed better. They were probably looking at the big jump in movie revenue between the Next Generation movies and the Kelvin-timeline Star Treks and thought that keeping that new movie emphasis on hyper-visual stimulus, the singular over the collective, and the impulsive over the political would also increase the audience. They didn't understand the difference between the movie goer and the television viewer. To get someone viewing for months on end, to get someone paying for months on end means creating some sort of investment in the viewer and this show do a poor job of creating that feeling. I mean, it spent most of the season lying to the audience about what it was about.

Star Trek is one of CBS's biggest (if not biggest) properties and they really needed it to succeed to help launch their streaming service, and it failed to do that pretty badly. They are getting (best guesses here, as they don't release numbers) like a third of Enterprise's audience in the US and worse overseas. This has a big impact on their business.

 

I'm debating if I have the willpower to wait until May to binge the season along with Gotham and GoD's final seasons.

 

I honestly thought this would be dismissed right away, but it's still going on. In fact, the judge ruled against summary dismissal and ordered discovery to take place. Round one to the little guy.

 

worked wonders for Disney and Star Wars.

 

Section 31 are bad guys. Georgiou is a bad guy. And I mean the worst possible kind of bad guys. The Federation eventually were able to negotiate with the Klingons and the Romulans and the Dominion, but Section 31 and Georgiou are both fundamentally opposed to the very essence of the Federation. There is no negotiation here. Having them as protagonists will inevitably make them and their cause look sensible.

The only bright spot I see in this is that both have different goals and are using each other. There might be some interest in seeing them repeatedly stab each other in the back.

 

The"24" of the ST universe.

i'd rather a short 8 episode series on them.

 

By the end I was forcing myself to continue watching and not put it off until later.

 

Yeah, I watched the season premiere and then two episodes of "The Punisher" season two back-to-back and it's amazing how much of an easier watch the Frank Castle show is.