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<blockquote data-quote="Jester David" data-source="post: 7234731" data-attributes="member: 37579">It bugged me and took me out of the show. A lot. Which is frustrating as so much else was actually much better than I had feared. That cold open was excellent. I want to see where the show goes, and what happens next in the story. Hopefully not every episode deals with the Klingons...But it was a deal breaker for my wife. She half-watched it beside me and I could hear her eye rolls. And she has zero interest in the rest of the series. She's a big Klingon fan. A Worf fan really, as she's a TNG Trekkie, never having seen much of TOS or the related movies (TOS was too campy for her tastes.) They're the only Klingons she's really familiar with. (Which is the catch with updating properties/ franchises: you have to be carefully when making changes to something that might be someone's favourite element.)This makes watching the show awkward for me. We only have a few hours of time between the munchkin going to bed and sleeping ourselves. Often 60-90 minutes. And there's no shortage of TV as it is, and generally limited couple time. Finding time to watch a show she's uninterested in is going to be hard. There's a bunch of stuff on Netflix I'm trying to watch (some anime and Archer) and I barely get to see that, getting snippets at the gym while on the treadmill. But ironically Discovery isn't streaming in Canada, being on the sci-fi channel &quot;Space&quot;. So I can only couch watch.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Jester David, post: 7234731, member: 37579"] It bugged me and took me out of the show. A lot. Which is frustrating as so much else was actually much better than I had feared. That cold open was excellent. I want to see where the show goes, and what happens next in the story. Hopefully not every episode deals with the Klingons... But it was a deal breaker for my wife. She half-watched it beside me and I could hear her eye rolls. And she has zero interest in the rest of the series. She's a big Klingon fan. A Worf fan really, as she's a TNG Trekkie, never having seen much of TOS or the related movies (TOS was too campy for her tastes.) They're the only Klingons she's really familiar with. (Which is the catch with updating properties/ franchises: you have to be carefully when making changes to something that might be someone's favourite element.) This makes watching the show awkward for me. We only have a few hours of time between the munchkin going to bed and sleeping ourselves. Often 60-90 minutes. And there's no shortage of TV as it is, and generally limited couple time. Finding time to watch a show she's uninterested in is going to be hard. There's a bunch of stuff on Netflix I'm trying to watch (some anime and Archer) and I barely get to see that, getting snippets at the gym while on the treadmill. But ironically Discovery isn't streaming in Canada, being on the sci-fi channel "Space". So I can only couch watch. [/QUOTE]

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