Posted November 17, 2017
Finally saw the last episode. It's.. I don't know. I'm torn about this one. There were parts I kinda liked, but there's so many little things that bug the hell out of me. Well, some little, some not so little. Like, in less than three hours they come up with a solution to the Klingon cloaks, the problem doubtless every scietific mind in Starfleet has been working on for months now? I'm sorry, but even if your crew was composed of Spock, Data and Seven of Nine I'd call bullshit on that. And with these clowns? Get the fuck out.
Some smaller stuff- the forest planet is located three hours at relatively low warp from the nearest Starbase? And yet despite the fact there's a giant transmitter there, built by a race actively trying to communicate with others, no one from Starfleet, you know, the organisation all about finding new life and new civilisations, has ever been to that planet before the previous episode? And are you seriously telling me, that this is the first the doctor learned of Stamets' condition? That the guy who is the key part of their super drive and underwent a dangerous, experimental procedure for it isn't under constant medical supervision? Did not have any medical examination before now? Or how about my favourite - the whole episode is about finding a way to detect cloaked ships... but somehow they were already able to detect a cloaked vessel entering the orbit around a planet from lightyears away.
And so on and so forth. Oh, and I'm tired of everything being shot at an angle for dramatic effect. That trick seriously got old by now.
Nine episodes in, I still don't feel like I know any of the characters, nor do I particularly care about any of them. I'll admit, some of the action was ok, and I liked seeing the Klingons finally get their asses kicked, though I'm not sure if it's because they are the villains, or more because I just really couldn't stand them from the very start. I just wish I could believe that the show is going to do a soft reboot after that cliffhanger, with a whole new premise. Yeah, it would be a whole lot like Voyager, possibly crossed with Sliders, but I'd still rather have that than what we had so far. Unfortunately, there are obvious lingering Klingon plot threads with Tyler, and we'll likely see Discovery back to the war and doing it's BSG impression in a few episodes at the most.
Some smaller stuff- the forest planet is located three hours at relatively low warp from the nearest Starbase? And yet despite the fact there's a giant transmitter there, built by a race actively trying to communicate with others, no one from Starfleet, you know, the organisation all about finding new life and new civilisations, has ever been to that planet before the previous episode? And are you seriously telling me, that this is the first the doctor learned of Stamets' condition? That the guy who is the key part of their super drive and underwent a dangerous, experimental procedure for it isn't under constant medical supervision? Did not have any medical examination before now? Or how about my favourite - the whole episode is about finding a way to detect cloaked ships... but somehow they were already able to detect a cloaked vessel entering the orbit around a planet from lightyears away.
And so on and so forth. Oh, and I'm tired of everything being shot at an angle for dramatic effect. That trick seriously got old by now.
Nine episodes in, I still don't feel like I know any of the characters, nor do I particularly care about any of them. I'll admit, some of the action was ok, and I liked seeing the Klingons finally get their asses kicked, though I'm not sure if it's because they are the villains, or more because I just really couldn't stand them from the very start. I just wish I could believe that the show is going to do a soft reboot after that cliffhanger, with a whole new premise. Yeah, it would be a whole lot like Voyager, possibly crossed with Sliders, but I'd still rather have that than what we had so far. Unfortunately, there are obvious lingering Klingon plot threads with Tyler, and we'll likely see Discovery back to the war and doing it's BSG impression in a few episodes at the most.
Post edited November 18, 2017 by Breja