I would have wanted the overarching plot of season 2 to have been written by someone who knows how to write ...anything really, not even someone who's experienced writing science fiction particularly. I'm a sucker for time travel plots, and I don't think I've ever been this disappointed in a story about time travel, from Star Trek or anything else.
I have also never seen [insert social/political bias here] representation so self-sabotaging. At best, it was simply devoid of any substance. I can't feel anything for Culber and Stamets' reunion because I haven't spent any time with them as a couple to know what that rededication to each other even means. I've spent the last two years being told how wonderful their relationship has been, but never shown. Which is a problem for many other aspects of this show. Bad writers tell you what something is and then have to tell you what to feel, good writers show you what something is and that in turn makes you feel.
This has been the worst Michelle Yeoh performance I've ever seen. You know it's the producers' fault when such a stellar actor as her becomes annoying and forgettable. I got more out of her cameo in Guardians of the Galaxy 2, at least that's a character I want to see more of. CBS wants Mirror-Georgiou to have her own series? Can she be allowed to act from now on? Can she be given writing befitting of her status in Hollywood? From a character standpoint, Anton Mount carried the whole damn season on his back. Despite the bad writing overall, despite being forced to read off horrible dialog, he actually has a three-dimensional presence and gravitas. He is the most Star Trek thing about this entire series. He deserves a spin-off show more than anyone else.
I never would have thought it possible to make a Star Trek property worse than The Final Frontier, but, dammit, CBS managed to pull it off. Was William Shatner secretly giving "creative" input this whole time? What was it that Kurtzman did anyways? I can't imagine things being any worse if they had left Fuller in change. In a perverse way, I want to know what his version of the show would have been like. To paraphrase Steve Jobs, "Discovery is a ship with a hole in the bottom, taking on water, and Kurtzman's job was to point that ship in the right direction." ...Directly into a quantum singularity.
The best part of this episode was that it ended, and that it drained the timeline (at least presently) of Discovery and all her baggage. Can you imagine any other Star Trek series, the original, The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, Voyager, Enterprise, ending a season the same way? Let alone the second season. The lack of effort it took for the insistence that the ship had been destroyed and all aboard had been killed to be the cleanest way to sign off. The unoriginality it took for all Discovery season finales thus far to be showcasing a ship and crew from another show, that was wholly created and made famous by an entirely different group of people.
Review by DeletedBlockedParent2019-04-19T15:35:34Z
I would have wanted the overarching plot of season 2 to have been written by someone who knows how to write ...anything really, not even someone who's experienced writing science fiction particularly. I'm a sucker for time travel plots, and I don't think I've ever been this disappointed in a story about time travel, from Star Trek or anything else.
I have also never seen [insert social/political bias here] representation so self-sabotaging. At best, it was simply devoid of any substance. I can't feel anything for Culber and Stamets' reunion because I haven't spent any time with them as a couple to know what that rededication to each other even means. I've spent the last two years being told how wonderful their relationship has been, but never shown. Which is a problem for many other aspects of this show. Bad writers tell you what something is and then have to tell you what to feel, good writers show you what something is and that in turn makes you feel.
This has been the worst Michelle Yeoh performance I've ever seen. You know it's the producers' fault when such a stellar actor as her becomes annoying and forgettable. I got more out of her cameo in Guardians of the Galaxy 2, at least that's a character I want to see more of. CBS wants Mirror-Georgiou to have her own series? Can she be allowed to act from now on? Can she be given writing befitting of her status in Hollywood? From a character standpoint, Anton Mount carried the whole damn season on his back. Despite the bad writing overall, despite being forced to read off horrible dialog, he actually has a three-dimensional presence and gravitas. He is the most Star Trek thing about this entire series. He deserves a spin-off show more than anyone else.
I never would have thought it possible to make a Star Trek property worse than The Final Frontier, but, dammit, CBS managed to pull it off. Was William Shatner secretly giving "creative" input this whole time? What was it that Kurtzman did anyways? I can't imagine things being any worse if they had left Fuller in change. In a perverse way, I want to know what his version of the show would have been like. To paraphrase Steve Jobs, "Discovery is a ship with a hole in the bottom, taking on water, and Kurtzman's job was to point that ship in the right direction." ...Directly into a quantum singularity.
The best part of this episode was that it ended, and that it drained the timeline (at least presently) of Discovery and all her baggage. Can you imagine any other Star Trek series, the original, The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, Voyager, Enterprise, ending a season the same way? Let alone the second season. The lack of effort it took for the insistence that the ship had been destroyed and all aboard had been killed to be the cleanest way to sign off. The unoriginality it took for all Discovery season finales thus far to be showcasing a ship and crew from another show, that was wholly created and made famous by an entirely different group of people.
Ladies and gentlemen, Star Trek: Discovery.