Breja: There's actually a theory going around that Lorca is from the Mirror Universe. That after the MIrror Lorca escaped and disappeared he somehow ended up in our universe, replaced our Lorca and everything he did from that point on was to get our Discovery and our Burnham to the mirror universe to use them for revenge. Somehow. It would explain why he seemed so obsessed and protective of Burnham all this time, why he insisted on pushing Stammets to the brink, and how despite being no scientist he's the first one to bring up parallel universes to Stammets earlier in the show, and how he was the first to realise they are in a parallel universe in the last episode.
I'm not saying I belive it's true, and having another character with a"scret identity" seems like overkill, but it says a lot about Lorca that this sounds plausible at all.
At first this blew my mind. Then I didn't like it because I thought that Lorca (with a c?) could be a better villain if he were not from the mirror universe because people from the mirror universe are more caricatures than anything else. They aren't subtle, they're often headstrong to the point of stupid and their desire to wreck stuff skews toward satire. I felt he would be a better villain if he is a monster among mirrors so to speak.
But after thinking about all that happened in the episodes up to now, and looking at it through the lens of this theory, I gotta say it's really compelling. I'd say it goes farther than just plausible; it fits with everything. I also thought it was weird that he was the first to suggest an alternate universe but I figured it was just a "hero" moment for the Captain, and they are after all all hyper-educated future-people. You add in the fact that the mirror burnham and lorca conveniently disappeared and it just starts to fit too well to ignore. As of now, I'm definitely on the "he's from the mirror universe" train.
Andrey82: I actually wonder if while Discovery is in mirror universe trying to look warlike, Discovery is "normal" universe is trying to disguise themselves as pacifists or just gone killing all Klingons they could find?
That would be cheeky. It's a good point though. How did Mirror-Lorca get to the "prime" (what do they call it?) universe? Maybe there is a mirror universe discovery floating around somewhere in the regular universe. If it is there, I'd imagine it's heavily damaged. It may be mostly inoperable, save for the spore drive, which may not function properly.
Andrey82: I believe, that at some point there will be struggle between L'Rell and Burnam for Voq/Tyler. This vould bring very interesting love triangle if played right.
Seems that way.
Andrey82: I think that at some point they might kill Lorca and replace him with his "mirror' counterpart. Or they might discover that emperor of terran empire is, actually, "mirror" Lorca which coup is succeeded and "mirror' Burnam is at his side.
Also, when Lorca was presenting himself as engineer was talking with accent. Which was very like Scotty's accent from TOS. :)
Mm not sure about that one. If I were guessing I'd say that mirror emperor is either Georgiou or Cornwell.