I have been reading people defend SNW saying that we should give the show a chance to finish before judging. If this was a show about new characters and new species, that would be a perfectly good point. But are we forgetting that when we are portraying Gorn as born-blood-thirsty monsters and showing Spock's vulcan-ness as a genetic trait, giving T'pring agency…all these changes break the original characters and canon?
A character can change, have an arc, grow…etc but if you make such drastic changes, it means that the character at some point in their life acted completely differently. We don't need to reach the end of the show to feel offended and unhappy. It makes the character weak, lose their power, when we are shown them being drastically different at some point in their life.
The most powerful people in fiction or real life are the ones who over the years, decades, CONSISTENTLY act as per their values. Their character is stable, solid, and in fact so unrelenting in the face of resistance/challenges - THAT is what makes them iconic. And Spock is one of the most iconic characters and TOS was one of the most progressive shows.
SNW is toying with a show that was a phenomenon in itself!! They need to show some respect! Sooooo many people became scientists because of Spock (ask NASA). Spirk launched slash and fanfiction! MLK himself was invested in Uhura's portrayal and so on. Can we say the same about SNW?!
So yeah, we don't need to wait to see what the writers will do in the future 🤷🏻♀️.
