I just finished watching enough of the show to get a good impression of the whole things. (Funnily most of the whole thing is on Youtube, cut into pieces.) Before that I watched or skimmed some critiques of the show. (The ones that weren't unbearable due to people trying to do some cheesy unique style to set themselves apart from the many others.) Plenty of it is really a grotesque level of analyzing it to pieces like a mad butcher, totally mental, oversensitive, getting triggered at the most ridiculous things that might not even have been intended to be provoking. Nitpicking as if the writing is about to murder you any moment. Geez, I don't even find words. Some really seem to rage about anything that is not exactly like STTNG. (As if it wasn't totally believable that Picard has changed over all those years. But it was all part of a beautiful story arc.) Personally I can be a harsh critic, but I don't blind myself from the good parts. The story is quite lovely. The more you move away from the details, the more it becomes really good Trek. What bothers me personally about it is just the usual things that define the afflictions of contemporary movie and TV production, with strong emphasis on VFX (dirty lenses and anamorphocalypse) and SFX (everything is bwub-bwub and yeeeehogogog), and beyond that some other types of stylistic choices. But some others are just due to the different setting. Again, many critics seem to forget that Picard is not a captain on the Enterprise anymore. (It's like some are totally oblivious that DS9 is a thing, too.) About the effects aspect again, it was very interesting because I kept switching back and forth between videos of STP and STTNG, and I absolutely loved how calming, immersive, serene, crisp and clear and clean the old productions were. That contrast made STP even harder to watch. Dunno, maybe you personally experienced the stylistic change from Abrams Trek 1+2 to the third movie, by a different director. That one was the first in the trilogy that I could bear looking at. It's like the difference between painting the Mona Lisa and spraying clan tags on buildings. At some point making the most blatant and crude beginner/dilettante mistakes in camera, lighting, set design and such became the coolest thing. :picardpalm: And that becomes even worse when it is mixed with really good storytelling. As some relief, in STP said stylistic issues tended to be relatively isolated, with enough phases of 'sanity' in-between. But that of course also creates internal style contrast.