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Re: DSC S1: Lethe

Pauline Kael got a lot of heat for saying, in her review of Raiders of the Lost Ark, that "Kinesthetically, the film gets to you. It gets your heart thumping. But there’s no exhilaration in this dumb, motor excitement."

Discovery does not have the same level of craft as that movie did, but I think her point applies to the show in a certain way anyway: Too many scenes in the show are designed as life-and-death climaxes, with the fate of people (or space creatures, or planets, or military battles) hanging in the balance. When one of these scenes plays out, and we find out the world hasn't ended, we have to quickly brace ourselves for the next "all-or-nothing" crisis.

The show needs to slow down, and tamp down on the dramatic heacy breathing. When ideas are pitched, and come off as, one death-defying climax after another,I think the viewer ends up with the impression that if EVERYTHING matters this much, then in the end, nothing does.

This kind of excess was present in the later seasons of the BSG reboot, I think (a reboot whose style is being aped by Discovery). But Star Trek - the 725 episodes that preceded Discovery - didn't need to resort to pummeling the viewer like this to get a dramatic effect. In Discovery, now, for example, every final minute involves some seeming earth-shattering plot development (mirror Stamets, capturing the tardigrade) that feels like the '60s Batman TV show, only here they don't appear to be camping it up, they appear to be serious.... Just cool it already..

I wish the show would just... slow down... or tone down.... When you start specifically noticing a show's "Quieter Moments," it's because you've become too accustomed to being subjected to extreme manipulation by the louder ones.

Re: DSC S1: Lethe

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Re: "lawfully" thread (I am being tongue in cheek here), I was holding out hope there was a way besides pirating once i heard the word "many." To me, there aren't "many different ways of pirating"; there is just pirating. :-) kind of like saying if you want a new car that you can't afford that there are "many different ways you can still get one," when those many different eays are different snyonyms for "stealing".. at any rate CBS will surely put up an apology to its customers on the all-accrss website for the slow service... They will, won't they?

Re: DSC S1: Lethe

I concur that All-Acess is a joke. I tried Chromecasting from Android onto two separate tvs, then using the computer to HDMI cable method directly; then watching directly on the phone and then the iPad. It took 2 1/2 hours to do all of this, for 44 minutes of content.

I am not sure who above said that there are "numerous other ways of watching this show," but if you are in the US, want to see episodes as they are put on All-Access and want to do so lawfully, could you tell me what these other ways are? As someone once said, "One will do."