(10-03-2017, 06:10 PM)Dartz Wrote: Never mind the 60's also had Apollo. And it had a real sense that people could take the fight to the 'bad guys' and actually start winning battles. There was a sense of some porogress being made.
While we're more in the 'Resistance is Futile' sort of place. It feels like the Bad Guys we see on telly every night are winning. We aren't really allowed see the good lurking beneath anymore because they want us to be afraid. It's a very strange place to be in.
This.
This is the attitude that drives me so often to fanfiction, to anime. To the idea that, hey, maybe life doesn't have to be grimderp, maybe people can try not being arseholes to each other for a while.
The vibe I'm getting from Discovery episodes 1-3 is straight-on Villain Protagonist, much the same as Death Note, and that the story is going to be how things fall apart for them while decent people go on to win the war without them.
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Ok, that's probably stupidly optimistic of me. It's more likely to end up Trek meets 24, with Hard Trek People doing Hard Trek Things, because the Klingons just want a war so they're gonna get one.