I finally got around to watching Episode 1 of Season 1 of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds a few months ago. (I wasn't exactly in a hurry.) And I thought it was pretty dreadful, and decided I wouldn't need to watch any more of that.
Until a couple of weeks ago, when I heard that James T. Kirk had been introduced into the action. But I either misread or misunderstood the message, because I watched Episode 1 of Season 2 and there was no James T. Kirk whatsoever... and I thought the episode itself was pretty bad. I rechecked my information and found out that Kirk was actually in Episode 3 of Season 2, so I watched that. Well...I thought it was a pretty inferior Kirk...too skinny, for one thing...and it seemed clear that he wasn't going to be a recurring character...so again I figured that that was that.
Until I found out that this Kirk had actually first appeared in Episode 10 of Season 1. Sigh. So I went back and watched that. Meh.
Still...well. You know. In for a penny. I sat down and watched Episode 4 of Season 2. The first No-Expectation-Of-Seeing-Kirk for me. And...it wasn't great, but it was at least interesting. So what the hell. I went back and watched Episode 2 of Season 1. And I actually enjoyed it... even though we had a couple of those "flying a spaceship through dense asteroid-ish matter" scenes which I so loathe (and which seem to be de rigueur for space-oriented science fiction).
It's interesting to see some of the classic Star Trek characters played by new, young actors: Christopher Pike, Spock, Nurse Chapel (considerably hotted up), and Uhura. And the cgi seems pretty good. There are some pretty rough p(l)ot holes along the way, but most of them have to do with science ignorance, and that really is de rigueur for pretty much all movies and shows these days.
The way I've approached this is definitely not a good way to watch a new series, but you know what? I'm going to watch Episode 3 of Season 1 right now. So maybe I'm on board anyway.
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