Watching Star Trek Strange New Worlds, I'm enjoying so far after watching season 1, but I personally think Paramount appeals for nostalgia more than a new public, specially with lots and lots of reference who only fans will catch.
And I start to remembering those people who complaing about Star Wars or Fallout, with the idea of franchises which need a 360 grades turn to bring something new, for example, Fallout fans complain about the overuse of Broterhood of Steel, something I think is a silly thing to complaing since is almost the face of Fallout franchise is a whole.
But my question is; do Star Trek fans has the same opinions and thoughts? Of letting go the franchise?
Image as example, also, I'm waiting for respectful discussion and not flamewar.
I "let go" of Star Trek a while ago. The majority of the new shows just aren't for me and I've come to terms with that. The shows that made me fall in love with Star Trek are still there, I go back and watch them from time to time.
I always feel the same way about shitty TV and movie adaptations of books I love. If I don't like it I can just not watch and go read the book again. The movie/show won't get the numbers to continue. I never really got the people who are like "new/adapted show/movie ruined X!" then run whatever they can to complain about it like it's their whole personality. Naw man, they fucked up an iteration. And except in the case of Star Wars and ET they didn't change the old media you loved so much. No one hired the Pinkertons to break into your house and rewrite your books.
I remember the Wheel of Time adaptation. You had the camp that enjoyed it. The camp that thought they strayed too far from the books. And very obvious racists.
I saw more repeated posts and comments about it on my feed from the third group than anyone else, maybe combined. Like the same guy spent half his day just posting about how much he hated it. Cool man. Go read the books again. There's gotta be healthier hobbies than shitting on things you don't like.
For Wheel of Time I can think of only two narrative choices that pissed me off as a book fan. In general I just accepted that it was a new turning of the wheel. Things would play out a little differently. No big deal.
I put it aside for a bit and then it was canceled. That hurt more. Star Trek at least had told it's stories. It can end gracefully. It deserves that much.
People don't like endings. I'm one of them.
But, if you force something to continue past it's time then you start making the property as a whole...less than the sum of it's parts.
The last two seasons of supernatural were rough for that.
Much of the Hulu Futurama is cringe-y
Stargate (while admittedly problematic in premise) got bad with the Ori.
Each of those shows had multiple ending seasons that were almost perfect, if they had been allowed to end.
It's not that I necessarily disagree, I just refuse to give it my energy and don't understand the folks who make it their whole thing. I can watch older Futurama. Old King of the Hill. Read WoT (the show was fine, I don't have strong opinions about it except that the timing kind of fucked them with the covid restrictions, it's unfortunate but I get it). I don't have to watch the Dresden Files TV show.
You're out here with well reasoned examples. You've said your piece. I bet if I go into your history (I won't) that you won't have 50 posts today bitching about it. Those are the folks I'm talking about. Not people who are disappointed and looking to talk. That's natural and human!
May the rest of the galaxy have your healthy perspective.