I'm glad they got rid of the TNG Klingon look. I've personally always thought it looked absolutely ridiculous.
Everything else, I'm cool with. I liked that they seemed more alien that the TNG-era dudes.
Let me preface my response here with the following: I've only seen the first episode, and am not willing to pay to see the rest (at least until it comes out on DVD), as, if I were Canadian, I'd be seeing it on Space tv for no extra cost...
I'm honestly not sure what you mean by the "TNG Klingon look"...the TNG Klingons look no different from the movie era Klingons, which first appeared in Star Trek the Motion Picture (or Motionless Picture, as some prefer...I mostly only watch the opening sequence to see the sweet, sweet K't'inga action...), and continued on into Star Trek III, Star Trek IV (minorly), Star Trek V, Star Trek VI and Star Trek Generations (which brought the movies into the TNG era).
So what exactly makes a movie era Klingon different from a TNG era Klingon?
As to looking alike, etc., or less human...the TOS Klingons looked FAR more human, and just as alike as the movie era/TNG ones...why not complain about those?
Personally, I loved the movie and TNG era Klingons, especially once we started learning more of their culture, rather than just seeing snippets here and there...
I personally would love to see these new Klingons being the first of the ones that tried to get around the "fix" that Phlox was forced to make for the human augment DNA with which they tried to change themselves...but that the movie era/TNG era Klingons were the real Klingons...or at least make them an offshoot branch of the klingons, similar to the Remans...that way, we wouldn't loose decades of history with yet another useless retcon...
Heck...just use the old FASA ST RPG reasoning...the movie/TNG era Klingons are the purebloods, the TOS ones are human-fusion Klingons (which is basically the tact that Enterprise took), and these new ones could be a fusion with another species...
BTW, I've read that there are supposed to be some ideas from
The Final Reflection used with the Klingons on Discovery...maybe even introducing
klin zha...would really like to see that...
Ruger