Every damn space shot is crammed with stuff like asteroids, glare, gases, nebulas, planets ect. You can't get one single clean space shot with the Discovery ship moving along at impulse power.
Of all the "nitpicky" criticisms, this must take the cake
. Just kidding. I agree. I miss the wide shots of space. Dense shots can be dramatic when used sparingly, such as when the Enterprise arrived at Wolf 359 to find hundreds of pieces of Federation ships floating around as far as the eye could see.
I wouldn't hold out hope of ever seeing the Discovery moving along at impulse power, though. Now that it can instantly teleport anywhere, there's no need for the ship to ever be shown moving again. It might as well be DS9.
“That’s not our argument. Here’s our argument. It’s the one I said it wasn’t.”
You have a bad habit of putting words into people's mouths and basing your arguments on that, rather than on what they're actually arguing.
By the way, I’m not “hopeful.” I’m just willing to give it a chance to play out. There’s no point in criticism that might not hold any water once everything is played out.
That's a curious opinion. Why do you think that a show that gets better means that the early criticism didn't hold any water? By acknowledging that the show got
better, you're acknowledging that some of the criticism was warranted. In fact, all of that criticism could be partly
why a show ends up improving, since the writers realize that the fans aren't happy and try to address the main complaints.
Did the criticism of TNG's first two seasons end up not holding any water because it improved massively, starting with the third season? Of course not. To this day, people still criticize those first two seasons. In fact, the fact that the series got so much better after those two seasons actually
highlights how mediocre they were and justifies the criticism. The early criticism actually ends up holding
more water because the critics were right in how much better the show could be. The same thing is sure to happen with Discovery if it gets better. People, even folks like you, are liable to look back and recognize all of the problems with the first season that they were in denial about when it was new, since they'll have an improved series to compare it against.