I know that Star Trek is a huge series with a lots of hardcore fans etc, but as a person who has never seen it before, and started only recently, I was drastically disappointed.
Yes, I know that it is from the late 60s, so I expected that the "hi-tech" stuff will not be so much hi-tech now, and that does not bother me, I am okay with that.
What bothers me is the production quality, that, from my point of view, too low.
Just a quick list:
Just a quick list:
- It seems that (after watching 4 episodes, I could not force myself to another one), that every episode could be executed in 20-30 minutes, but takes 50. This is very basic problem, there are unnecessarily long pauses and shots of no importance, so I got bored very quickly. Maybe in late 60s when there was nothing else on TV it was OK, but now, I can't go through it.
- most of the times there are no "unnecessary" people in the rooms, just the people who have the dialogue. Sometimes when the scene takes place in hallways, we can see somebody going in the opposite direction, but the same should apply in the rooms. I mean, big rooms like the medical quarters, cafeteria, some main control rooms - but no, there are almost always only the main protagonists. But it's supposed to be a bloody big ship, so where are the people?
- The plot "twists" are so predictable - They go to some planet, find somebody or something, and then weird things start happening on the ship. Of course it has to do something with the fact that you just visited the alien planet! And they seem not to get it.
- Lazy camera work