It seems that everyone wanted to be Game of Thrones, with huge budgets on sets, CGI, etc. That also means less episodes per season.
Some of the best episodes of Star Trek (all of the series) were just the actors in the usual sets with minimal special effects. The new Star Trek shows are all big bombastic productions with large budgets. The writing on Discovery was poor. The writing on Strange New Worlds is pretty good, but the limited amount of episodes is a bummer. They could spend 40% as much per episode, set aside some extra for more writers, have more episodes, and everyone would love it even more - in my opinion.
All you need is good acting and writing. The rest is just support.
>> It seems that everyone wanted to be Game of Thrones
When what they didn't realize is to be GoT you need to be HBO, and to be HBO you need to adopt a business model that will never match hockey stick VC-funded growth.
It seems that everyone wanted to be Game of Thrones, with huge budgets on sets, CGI, etc. That also means less episodes per season.
Some of the best episodes of Star Trek (all of the series) were just the actors in the usual sets with minimal special effects. The new Star Trek shows are all big bombastic productions with large budgets. The writing on Discovery was poor. The writing on Strange New Worlds is pretty good, but the limited amount of episodes is a bummer. They could spend 40% as much per episode, set aside some extra for more writers, have more episodes, and everyone would love it even more - in my opinion.
All you need is good acting and writing. The rest is just support.