The reverse of that post I’ve made a week ago…
Rules: pick one movie or series and explain why you actually enjoyed it despite the criticism.
For me: The JJ Abrams Star Trek movies, by far the best ST stuff ever made, I couldn’t take seriously the original universe with the dated effects and stiff acting, same goes for NG… These movies did ST actually great looking and much more believable, not just the effects.
One my nerdiest habits is to watch old sci-fi content, especially if it was considered high brow and intelligent for its days, and chuckle at outdated science, disproven hypothesis, and people in the future using technology considered outdated in present.
Star Trek (especially earlier episodes) is a goldmine for this as Kirk is shown test a file with his ESP test results (It was taken very seriously at the time, and still would have its vocally mainstream supporters as recently as the mid-90s. Now it goes back and forth between being considered fringe with some mild evidence that may support it and being entirely written off as complete nonsense or in other words, PSI is bunk), and Spock is seen using what is basically an abacus.
Though I think my favorite “Science goof” on the show, is when tribbles are said to be bisexual instead of hermaphroditic. Simply because I’m literally autistic and still think “lol gay” is funny.
I like watching old sci-fi to see how the tech of the day was reflected in the tech or the, “future.” The original Enterprise looks like it was run on colorful 8-tracks. The TGN Enterprise looked like it was full of microwave touch-screen interfaces. The Abrams Enterprise…looks like an Apple store with a big chrome throttle. The original Alien movies probably hold up the best; aside from the CRTVs, that technology still seems like a plausible future.