Looked nothing like you ;)
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I don't know if reddit it's dying but it will be a worse place for sure (and it was quite shitty since years)
It's not that I didn't like it, I hoped more, well every ST series has mediocre episodes, in S1 the episode in costume was not my cup of tea, maybe we are unlucky that this was e1, will see the rest of the season if it get better.
I watched it, it was meh. I loved the new engineer but the fights were awful and too long. It didn't seemed SNW tbh, I hope it's just the start
I also agree on your pov on Spock and Chapel and all the rest.
I didn’t really love this episode. I agree with other users that it feels a bit more DIS than SNW s1.
Haven't seen the episode and I stopped here, I just read it because that was something I was worried since the trailers... I really hope I'm wrong but it seemed a lot a new JJA Star Trek that I didn't dislike so much as others but I loved S1 because it was so similar to TOS.
Sorry if I'm just maybe brutal but I still think and at this point I will ever think that it's one of the worst recast I've seen. Pike is more Kirk than Kirk. As I've read somewhere SNW Pike is like Kirk and SNW Kirk is like Pike.