It’s all positive city here, man, I don’t know what to tell you. [laughs]… Yeah, we’re always positive about the future. We never know what the future will bring. But there’s no reason not to be positive about it. Skydance has been terrific, and CBS has been terrific. Paramount plus has been terrific, and we’ll just see what happens.
And his S31 movie was terrific too (based on his comments in other promotional campaigns).
My partner and I are among the seemingly very few longtime Trek fans who really found S31 fun, and have even rewatched it.
That said, however evidently capable Osunsamni is as the executive in charge of managing production in Toronto, S31 exemplifies a personal preference for flash over substance. One therefore has to wonder whether he’s got good situational awareness about where the context is now.
I…enjoyed the S31 movie on its own terms. I wouldn’t call it particularly “good” or recommend it to anyone. Mostly, it just made me sad that we didn’t get the full 10-episode season, since it seems apparent that they didn’t really change the story - just compressed it to an extreme degree.
a personal preference for flash over substance
The wonky camerawork that people like to single out definitely seems to be a trend that he set. In interviews, he talks a lot about letting the emotion of a scene guide the direction, but I can’t really say it shows.
While I didn’t enjoy Section 31 at all—even though I do enjoy all new Trek—I do wonder how different and much more enjoyable it could have been [at least for me] as a full season instead of a movie, as I remember the beginning at the bar was quite interesting and promising…
I think there’s a lot of potential.
You get a couple of episodes to get attached to the Deltan character before she gets killed off. You get about four episodes to get attached to Fuzz before his betrayal, which would actually give it some weight. You can actually spend some time exploring what it means for San to have crossed over to the Prime Universe, and how it affects Georgiou (and maybe explain why isn’t way older than he appears to be, that’d be nice). You get enough time to make Garrett’s arc actually work.
It really seems like ten hours of story stuffed into a two-hour bag.
