Suddenly Pike has character depth as he and Tyler finally develop a personal rapport. Nice touch with Tyler screaming something in Klingon during a moment of desperation.
Suddenly Mirror-Georgiou and Burnham have chemistry and play off of each other almost delightfully, instead of just hissing like cats.
This must be the point in principle photography where the new showrunners took over. In all the episodes before, it is almost always easy to tell which scenes were original shots done under Fuller's team and which scenes were reshoots done by Kurtzman's team. You could feel the difference between whole episodes as to which were left intact and which were refurbished in post. For a while the show was ping-ponging back and forth between two extremes. This episode felt much more cohesive, taking elements from both camps, instead of feeling patched together after the fact.
Despite all the Section 31 garbage and other "fuck it, why not?" (...or should I say 'frick it'?) things that were ineffectually glued onto the episode, there was a lot of really good stuff and one of the biggest forward motions of the main plot arc. Discovery can have all the superficial action it wants as long as there's a good story with developed characters holding it all up. The temple set on Vulcan was really nice. Spock needing Burnham to recite Alice in Wonderland with him so as not to go crazy, not so much.
A refurbished version of this episode would have easily been a strong 9.
Review by DeletedBlockedParent2019-03-02T15:40:44Z
Suddenly Pike has character depth as he and Tyler finally develop a personal rapport. Nice touch with Tyler screaming something in Klingon during a moment of desperation.
Suddenly Mirror-Georgiou and Burnham have chemistry and play off of each other almost delightfully, instead of just hissing like cats.
This must be the point in principle photography where the new showrunners took over. In all the episodes before, it is almost always easy to tell which scenes were original shots done under Fuller's team and which scenes were reshoots done by Kurtzman's team. You could feel the difference between whole episodes as to which were left intact and which were refurbished in post. For a while the show was ping-ponging back and forth between two extremes. This episode felt much more cohesive, taking elements from both camps, instead of feeling patched together after the fact.
Despite all the Section 31 garbage and other "fuck it, why not?" (...or should I say 'frick it'?) things that were ineffectually glued onto the episode, there was a lot of really good stuff and one of the biggest forward motions of the main plot arc. Discovery can have all the superficial action it wants as long as there's a good story with developed characters holding it all up. The temple set on Vulcan was really nice. Spock needing Burnham to recite Alice in Wonderland with him so as not to go crazy, not so much.
A refurbished version of this episode would have easily been a strong 9.