I actually have a bigger problem with all the gratuitous gore, and the ridiculous body count. It's like, nearly every secondary or minor character we knew from various Star Trek tv shows or series are these five things:
- Old and irrelevant
- Dead and gone
- Died on camera in [sometimes] a violent way
- Have gone rogue
- Just plain not there
In regards to Raffi's son, he is an ungrateful little shit, as well as a hypocrite, considering he's married to a Vulcan, who has shared ancestry with the very people his mother fought to save. But then again, she doesn't really strike me as a very good mom. Judging by his behavior and what he said to her, she was not there for him at all while he was growing up (probably sold her soul to Starfleet and left him behind all the time), attempted to rescue an alien race many humans on Earth resented, due to past history with the Romulans, and afterwards, she had an addiction problem and just plain stayed away from him.
It's very hard to love and forgive a family member with persistent drug problems, particularly if it interfered with their lives together. I've read too often about broken relationships people have had with close relatives who had a drug addiction. It's about what you'd expect, with the normal people getting tired of having to deal with them and having no sympathy left after years of the druggie relative claiming to go clean, only to fall off the wagon again in a vicious cycle of quit, but not quit.
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johnmiller (3327)
4 years ago
It's a cable/streaming series. So, it "has to be" TV-MA. So, like "Sopranos," "Game of Thrones," etc., there has to be cussing, R-rated violence, gore, sex or whatever.
The series is tripping over itself to be "edgy," dystopian, dark, etc. And, it is also wrapped up in the oh-so-tired J.J. Abrams "Mystery Box" construct, where you have to have all these mysteries on top of other mysteries for the sake of such.
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