The Fun Police really misinterpreted this. This is not saying anything about how good or bad LD is. I was just expecting something more like what TAS was to TOS. Other than the fact that TAS episodes were half the length and that the animated nature allowed them to afford to depict more exotic things like underwater scenes and six-limbed bridge crew members, TOS/TAS were mostly the same. They had roughly the same degree of adventure, philosophy, humor, etc. On the other hand, LD targeted a different audience by focusing on qualities that had not been prioritized in any earlier series. I was just disappointed by how different LD is from TAS.
Sorry you can’t enjoy something if you think it’s childish. Your life must be awful.
I guess the secondary directive of the Federation is to gatekeep having fun?
Animation isn’t for children by default. Only boring, unimaginative people talk that way about animated stories.
Star Trek has always had violence.
Star Trek has often had profanity. In another alien language sure, but we all knew which Klingon words were curses.
Does sophomoric humor graduate to senior humor when it’s subtle enough that you didn’t catch it as a child? Humor is SUPER subjective and VERY sensitive to the current zeitgeist, so comparing humor across a franchise that has been around this long seems a little absurd. Data pushed Crusher into the ocean for a laugh, that seems pretty sophomoric to me. Bones regularly joked about Spock’s racial differences, that also seems pretty crude by today’s standards.
Animation isn’t for children by default.
In fact, early animation was not even thought of to appeal to a particular age group. It was just a fun thing to do with movies that you couldn’t do with live action. And people who did comic strips in newspapers, never intended to be just for kids, were hired to make them.
Lower Decks is peak Star Trek. The humor is almost entirely related to previous ST series.
Is OP a Klingon agent sent to ruin our fun?
I’m not much of a sitcom fan. They’re rarely clever or supriseing. They feel like they write themselves in the most obvious way. And because of that they mostly bore me.
All that being said. Lower Decks nothing different.
I binged the whole series in the last month. Just finished the last episode this morning. And almost laguhed for the first time, when ransom said “Engage the core!” I didn’t laugh. But it did get a smile out of me. Now it’s over. And I can forget whatever it was I was talking about.
I’m disappointed in this community. Someone voices an opinion that is contrary to the majority and, instead of lively discussion, I see dogpiling? To be fair, there is discussion, but in the past I saw any attempts at dogpiling being cut at the start. I see it flourishing here. I hope this isn’t a sign of things to come.
I think the majority of the comments here are decidedly polite for Lemmy. I don’t personally read most of these as dogpiling as much as disagreement fueled by nerd-level enthusiasm.
You can definitely dogpile while maintaining composure. See exhibit A. It’s the “your opinion is wrong and you should feel ashamed of it” aspect being repeated in earnestness that disheartens me.
Hard to say, but I hear you. It could have gone unnoticed to you before this.
Anyway, I’ve found Lemmy a decent place to consume content but across most other popular communities it is very polarized, very quick to purity test / cry foul “gatekeeper!” / Expel dissent .
No where more than here have I learned that you won’t convince others to change their mind or consider alternatives. It’s best to just play along, up vote what you agree with, and keep moving.
