Walter Mosley Quits 'Star Trek: Discovery' After Using N-Word in Writers Room | Hollywood Reporter
Yeah. Well, that simply says there's at least one dumbass on the writing staff. And you find that everywhere, not just on a particular writing staff. Someone is always offended by what someone else says or does. I ran across that shit at church, at work, while running a forum, and pretty much anywhere in life. For what it's worth, if it was just what Mosely said, then it was a really dumb thing for a fellow writer to "complain" about. He wasn't calling anyone that name, he is black, and he was just relaying an anecdote he heard. Let's grow up, life is life and we have to be thicker skinned even if we are trying to be kind.
I would prefer to view the content of a writer's work by the actual work, and artists have to at least be allowed to go where the art takes them. Maybe after the art is complete, it can be evaluated on merits; but you have to be fearless to write or create any type of art, and it has to be considered in context. I mean, JFC, Harlan Ellison was a white Jewish guy who could write circles around most anyone, he did his stint in writer's rooms (and probably got fired from them, like he was from Disney, lol), but MAN that guy could write! Usually the word police folks, if they caught up on word choices, end up being far less writers -- those who write, do, and those who can't end up picking apart those who do. It's called "obsessive editing of ideas" and keeps people from writing.
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I mainly came to report that I did finally watch all of Season 2 Discovery... and I actually enjoyed it. The damn show even made me cry. I'm kinda irked that the video is calling it the stupidest show on TV because I find some of the other Treks far dumber, and pretty much any scifi show on SciFi channel and other second-rate cable channels to be dumber as well.
You guys know I was harsh on Season 1, it was a season of a few ideas that also felt like they rushed the implementation of said ideas because there was a war over show direction with the showrunner leaving. it felt like they wanted to just clear the slate. So I was frustrated with that. I was also ticked at the thought of Pike taking over the Discovery... hooray, another stereotypical white guy captain.
Except he wasn't. They actually wrote him really well and Anson Mount did a terrific job. He ended up being an exemplary captain in terms of what unfolded over the season and his way of being a captain. I was pleasantly shocked and I'm sorry the end of the season ended in such a way that he won't be around in Season 3.
Sonequa Martin-Green is pretty fierce. She holds everything together and gets a chance to show her talent the way she never got to on The Walking Dead (so I'm glad she left that show for this one). Doug Jones is great, he's a master class in acting through movement and body carriage. I could go on but don't feel like it. Even the spock thing could have been a disaster (and I wonder how much of the Trekkie fan bitching is because "oh my god they are incorporating a younger spock" whine bitch moan). Well, I think the season is actually an example of how you CAN actually do a "prequellish" Trek that doesn't change the history and also explains itself adequately on why we've never heard about this in the earlier treks. (honestly, it makes Abrams look like the hack he can be with franchises sometimes.) There's elements of the old series that show up and they were decently done (and hell, I got to see Melissa George in Star Trek, which made my day).
yeah, there was some problems in the writing from time to time. There were some inconsistencies in the characterizations, there were times when someone was mad at someone else... until they suddenly weren't. There were some characters they never figured out what to do with (Ash Tyler being one of them, that stuff was kinda dumb). A few plotlines that felt kind of dumb. It had the same gobbledy gook "science" that we see in every other Trek out there (make up sciency words and string 'em together). And so forth. like on pretty much ANY show on TV, except for Breaking Bad and that similar high-pinnacle of writing that few shows reach. But my threshold with scifi shows is lower because frankly so much of it is NOT high art. This was better than most of them.
The finale was actually stellar and had such a high production quality. I was blown away by it and the feelings I experienced watching it.
Man, I wanted to hate this show after Season 1 ended, but I can't be fair and diss the second season just because Mosely quit because of some dumb-ass writer. I don't know if I'll ever rewatch it through again, but I felt pretty inspired by the end, enough to tolerate the weak parts and appreciate the good parts. I really don't know what Season 3 will be about and the show could suck again. But hey, just giving due where it is needed.