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I sure hope they start filming season 2 over the next few months. I don't wanna have to wait until 2019 for it. Hopefully september 2018
ok so just finished ep 7 it went with a side plot on this one, but i still enjoyed it. however....
was there a plot hole? like Stamets is the only one who remembers that they're in a time loop, and that he had to keep explaining to Burnham and Tyler in every reset, but on that one reset suddenly Burnham remembers what has happened and what she must do to get Tyler to help. how did she remember what she and Stamets discussed in the previous time loop?
or was that actually all filmed and this is just as case of bad editing?
and about that ending....
i was kinda hoping Mudd would get vaporized or something
but instead he gets a happy ending.... or is it?
is being returned to his fiance a fate worse than death? or is there a plot involving him and this rich girlfriend somewhere in the future?
We fuel our vehicles with the liquefied remains of dinosaurs. So the starship using some sort of quantum biology to travel isn't that hard for me to accept. Besides this show is set 200+ years in the future. Think about the difference between 1817 and 2017. Its possible that they might know a thing or two that we dont.
I really enjoyed this episode:
1) Stamets could have explained everything off screen again
2) Mudd is in TOS and Stella was a harpy of a woman that harassed him
And Stamets, too, depending on how the writers want him to behave in any particular behavior.
I swear, one of the biggest issues the show has is consistency, especially in regards to character and tone. They have got to make up their minds on who these characters are and their personalities (most of the characters appear schizophrenic so far), and they need to decide what kind of show they want to make. Action, drama, horror, comedy? Telling a serial story means they need to pick one, they don't have the luxury of an episodic structure where they could mix things up.
Was Mudd always this bloodthirsty in the original series? I remember him being a con man, and his character doing whatever it took to survive previously made sense. But him taking so much pleasure in continualy murdering all these people seemed kinda off from what i remember of him.
Are there only 2 episodes left of this season or is it a half season, to return after Christmas?
it's scheduled for 15 episodes, but as to a Christmas hiatus, I haven't heard anything about it...
I heard it was stopping in November. If they haven't filmed the back half of the season yet, they should make some changes and make it more of an ensemble show. I'm fed up of it focusing on Burnham all the time. It's not like she's riveting to watch.
I heard it was stopping in November. If they haven't filmed the back half of the season yet, they should make some changes and make it more of an ensemble show. I'm fed up of it focusing on Burnham all the time. It's not like she's riveting to watch.
Burnham is the main character. That's why it's focusing on her.
Well in TNG, Picard was the main character. In DS9, Sisko was. In Voyager, Janeway was. In Enterprise, Archer was. But they still were all ensemble shows and could focus on other characters exclusively within an episode, with the main character fading into the background.
What I'm saying is that I prefer the ensemble format for Star Trek, especially since Burnham isn't a very interesting character and the actress who plays her isn't that great to watch.
it's scheduled for 15 episodes, but as to a Christmas hiatus, I haven't heard anything about it...
It's only like 7 episodes in. We don't know much about everyone, but we will with time. I really enjoy how DS9 was Sisko-centric but many episodes he had a small role, maybe even a few lines and we got to focus on many others. On Voyager/Enterprise I felt we got way too much of their commanding officers.
Not true. In the first season alone of Voyager, we had episodes focusing almost solely on Harry Kim, Tom Paris, B'Elanna Torres, the Doctor etc. There was that one where Harry Kim woke up in San Franscisco and was convinced his life on Voyager was just a fantasy. It wasn't just about Janeway or Chakotay. Of course, all the other characters still played, but they faded into the background while whoever it was that took centre stage that week would be the main character.
In the last Discovery episode, if it had been a more traditional Trek, it would've been Stamets who was the main character that week trying to convince others that they were in a loop, rather than him being in the background and still forcing Burnham to be the POV character.
I feel we would've gotten to know the characters better in Discovery if they had allowed each one to shine individually for the season so far, and just occasionally had it more of the whole cast featuring equally.
Today felt like an obligatory boring "away team" episode ala TNG/VOY
Next week looks pretty awesome.