Well, pretty much as expected, this was better than the premiere of the first season, while simultanously still being mostly crap.
1. The pacing is shit. The episode is over an hour long (becuase almost no one know anymore how to be efficient in storytelling), and yet for about 20 minutes nothing happens, and then suddenly it's like I'm watching the show at 2x speed. Everyone is talking super fast, the editing gets fast, things are flying fast, exploding and then... again slow and boring for the last 15 minutes. It's like the people behind this show have no idea how to build tension or tell a story.
2. Tilly is still the most annoying person in the history of fiction.
3. Because we're still obsessed with making Burnham be the greatest person ever, to make her look good we had to have a high ranking officer who for no reason acts like a brash idiot, disregards her advice, then disregards direct order from the captain and dies. No other purpose to him than making the point that everyone should always listen to Burnham.
4. Also to make Burnham look smarter than everyone, she actually has to remind Saru to use his superior eyesight, which he apparently now has. I guess his supersight doesn't work untill someone reminds him about it. Also despite having served among humans for years, Saru is confused by what a handshake is.
5. The way everyone talks super fast and over one another and the fast paced editing really make everyone look sort of hysterical in a crisis. I know they are desperate to make every scene be dramatic, but it's just ridiculous. When you compare it to the previous shows, you'll see how professional and focused everyone always was there, even in a crisis.
6. I hope everyone notice how this episode rips off the 2009 movie? The scene with the ship emerging from Warp into a debries field is almost identical, and the whole "freefall" scene is also extremely reminiscent of the freefall scene from that film.
7. So, Lorca is coming back, right? Sure, fine, whatever.
8. I keep hearing people talk about how this is the best looking Trek ever... no. Just no. There's more to a shows visul side than throwing money at it and having nice CGI. This show is so poorly shot it's not even funny. I'm serious - could you describe, or draw the Discovery's bridge? Because I can't. Do you feel like you know who's where and what they do? With the other shows I immediately felt familiar with the layout of almost every place on the ship. I could draw you the TOS bridge in my sleep, it's so efficiently designed and clearly shot.
Or what in the hell is this thing (see attached)? What is this guy wearing? It looks like he made himself a LaForge cosplay out of a disco ball. In fact, there seems to be a shitload of cheap looking cybernetic enchancements on Discovery.
9. Hey, the people on the bridge have names! I won't ermember any of them unless you also give them personalities and something to do, but still, what progress!