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Overall I like this episode, lots of character development and personality but kind of also feels like a bottle show/filler episode.
It definitely felt like a filler episode.
Overall I like this episode, lots of character development and personality but kind of also feels like a bottle show/filler episode.
I dont care if it was just filler, Im a sucker for timey-wimey shenanigans. There was a ton of character development, too, which is never a bad thing. Mudd was insanely entertaining - Rainn Wilson has a knack for portraying narcissistic psychopaths. A very enjoyable episode.It definitely felt like a filler episode.
Enjoyed that episode, even if it relied on the usual array of narrative shortcuts and suspect logic (even for a time-related story). It's nice that the series is doing some stand-alones, as it seemed for a while it would be strictly following the Netflix model. Even better episodes like this one, though, only reinforce how the series is weakened by weak choices guiding it. Most prominently, though I like Rainn Wilson's performance and his character a lot, the guy has nothing in common with TOS Harry Mudd, who is a flamboyantly conniving scoundrel, not a murderous psychopath. The Discovery version is a terrific villain, but the name is unnecessary and distracting, pointlessly tying into canon while getting it obviously wrong (same goes with the whole 'ten years before TOS despite all evidence to the contrary' thing). It also forced them into an ending which made little sense - would the Federation and someone like Lorca really allow a mercenary like Mudd with key tactical information related to the war, basically go free? After everything he did, or tried to do? Funny in terms of the 'old' Mudd. Nonsensical on its own.
Equally frustrating is the laser-focus on Burnham. Trying to revolve the series around someone other than the captain is an interesting idea, but captains have traditionally been the centre of gravity, not sole focus, of the storytelling, allowing the show to develop and tell stories for other key members of the crew without losing a sense of order. Discovery, unfortunately, is just the Burnham show. I barely feel I know the rest of the crew at all, other than through Burnham-perspective asides. There's no sense of them being a team, working and living together. As a character, she's a bit bland but Martin-Green is decent enough. I want to know more about how other relationships on the show work, however. How do Stamets and Saru get on? Tilly and the doctor? ANYONE and the doctor (even his relationship with Stamets is more or less a one-scene affair)? Lorca and Saru, or Tilly (if he knows she exists)? Are any of them friends? Hell, have any friends? Yes, a few of them have had scenes together hinting at little clashes (Lorca and Stamets being at odds) but nothing explored in depth. Lorca's by far the most developed character, but so far he's only meaningfully interacted with Burnham, Ash and the admiral he sexed and sent to die - and the latter two decidedly less so than Burnham.
So yes, the episode was fun and the time loop schtick is a welcome Trek tradition with some affable touches (got into the action quickly, the 'killing Lorca' montage) and solid entertainment value. The series as a whole has really hamstrung itself, though, even beyond questions of whether it 'feels' like Trek or not. It's enjoyable enough, nice to look at, and yes, a much easier watch than early TNG and Enterprise, but the direction it looks to be heading in does not seem conducive to building an interesting world or even good individual stories. Fingers crossed I'm wrong, of course.
Huh?^ lol this site is fucking dead
Whos watching tonight
Second last episode before the break!
Huh?
Well in amy event ill be watching.
Yeah om just not feeling them for some reason. I do enjoy the show a lot though. And feel the over all quality is good and has increased over time.The Klingon drama is losing me. The revelations and backstabbing just don't connect.
I like the Admiral though. Didn't expect to see her so soon.
The Klingon drama is losing me. The revelations and backstabbing just don't connect.
I like the Admiral though. Didn't expect to see her so soon.
Ok when did the admiral get captured?? Did we actually see that in a previous episode??
Was the episode the last before a break?
spore drivers snorters said:now we know when the final six episodes will be available. CBS just announced the first season starts up again on All Access on Sunday, January 7th with episode 10, titled Despite Yourself.
Nope, this Sunday is the fall finale.
Thats a long waitJust an update on this break. This weeks episode is the last for 2 months. Apparently Discovery will return on the 7th January 2018.
https://trekmovie.com/2017/11/09/st...en-set-title-and-synopsis-for-ep-10-revealed/
I dont sense good things coming from this relationship...The sudden romance between Ash and Michael has been quite damaging. That kiss in the last episode came out of nowhere.
Is the actress playing Burnham not very good? There are times when shes over acting the whole her being a Human raised as a vulcan .
Its like a silly vulcan impression she is doing?
Or maybe the actress is trying to act out a character who is a human who is kinda pretending to be more vulcan then she truly is?
Or maybe its just bad direction?
Whatever it may be, there are some lines that burnham says that just seems unatural, silly and bizzare.
It just feels like the chracter needs to go deeper on either being a human or a vulcan, somtimes it sounds like shes just reading lines off the script in a monotone way, and its not because vulcans are monotone, vulcans like spock or tuvok had more conviction and soul then burnham has.
I blame the script, every character in the show talks kinda unnaturally imo. Yeah starfleet officers have always been professional, but not so much with a stick up their ass.
Though I didn't really like her on the walking dead, I think she is improved here.
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With the impending mid-season finale, so far I'd have to rank all the series so far as:
TNG > DS9 > ENT > DIS > VOY
I didn't include TOS because I have to watch the whole series in full first.
I mean, the other options would be... what?You can't seriously have TNG or ENT season 1 that high?
You can't seriously have TNG or ENT season 1 that high?
p.s. but DS9 last? :O
We already know the lieutenant has seen the mirror dimension, as seen at the end of one of the episodes. Lorcas talk and display of the alternate dimensions, coupled with Stamets seeing the mirror world, has me believe that Stamets has somehow seeped into the mirror dimension by using the spire drive technology, and taking the ship and crew with him.
My take.
We already know the lieutenant has seen the mirror dimension, as seen at the end of one of the episodes. Lorcas talk and display of the alternate dimensions, coupled with Stamets seeing the mirror world, has me believe that Stamets has somehow seeped into the mirror dimension by using the spire drive technology, and taking the ship and crew with him.
My take.
Not sure how I feel about the whole thing. Started out, "Wtf", then was, "Hmm, ok" then ended, "Uh...alright."
Sonequa Martin is BRILLIANT. Everybody else is either forgettable or fucking insufferable. Not only in terms of acting but their character. I mean, there's no interesting story-lines behind anyone except her. Even after 9 episodes I felt like I didn't know any of them except Michael.
Most of the people working on the bridge have like two lines. What?
And why, fucking why, a tardigrade? Of all the things you can pick...
I'd say it was mildly entertaining but felt like it had nothing to do with Star Trek.