Did I miss the episode when they introduced Control? Because it seems like they just mentioned it once or twice, and suddenly it’s the most important thing in the show.
Yeah I have to admit this season is starting to take me out of the show a little bit. I love a lot of things about it. The elements are all pretty great, and the set up for the season excited me, but a few things aren’t gelling yet. Part of it is, it feels like it wants to be a timey wimey puzzle box like the River Song or Sally Sparrow bits on Dr Who or other clever time travel stories. But I don’t know, maybe the pacing is off? The explanations for the mysterious red angel appearances we got so far seem a little random or half assed like an after thought. The only thing that gives me hope in that regard is that Mom Angel apparently didn’t cause the signals, and next week it seems we start investigating the rest of them.
I just saw the latest episode. Did the download complete before the rift sucked up the Mcguffin?
I think it got about halfway through - just enough to cause trouble but not enough to kill everybody.
I felt exactly the same way. I found myself googling the plot mid show to try find out what I missed. :smack:
There’s so much I love about this show, but it continues to fall short. For some reason though, I keep sticking with it…
That’s how I feel about the Walking Dead. Discovery I started on last season and again this season but really couldn’t stay interested for the whole thing. Maybe it’s just trying too hard to look stylish, but it’s not Trek-like enough for me.
So I’m just watching the latest episode, and apparently they’ve still got the Sphere data? I thought at least the plan of downloading it into the suit had worked, but now there’s apparently ‘no way’ to either destroy the data or remove it from the ship.
But then it’s easy, right? Abandon ship and activate the self-destruct. Or fly her into the nearest star, I don’t care. Or am I missing something?
Oh, well, they actually came to the same conclusion in the end…
Some spoilers for this week’s below. Just doing this since the episode just dropped.
Pike is so great on this show. Having him knowingly create such a terrible future for himself as a sacrifice is probably the best use this series has ever made of the fact that it is prequel.
Seeing the 60s Pike Makeup done realistically was gruesome in a good way.
No bad. Barely any Tilly, and Michael only had to heroically hold back tears once or twice. Still, you’re up against an enemy who can zombify people, and you don’t suspect that the sole “survivor” of a ghost ship might be a zombie? What, have they evolved beyond horror movies in the future?
Also, why the hell is Spock still out of uniform?
I rarely have nightmares after a TV episode of a movie, but this one caused me some very unsettling dreams.
I love Captain Pike, and I love the way that Anson Mount portrayed the horror without making it seem silly or melodramatic. I felt it. And he was obviously still shaken later when talking to Spock and Burnham.
But I’m wondering… Is his future really sealed like Tenovik told him? Now that he knows that this horror is in store, couldn’t he just avoid the scenario that caused it to happen? Or will he just get to live out his days happily with Vina on Talos like in the original series?
I think the idea is that is the sacrifice he made. Had he left the crystal his future could have been changed but by taking it he locked that destiny in for himself. It’s wonky hand wavey stuff but he made it work.
One of these days, maybe in season three, they really need to have several lighter episodes, get some humor in there, maybe shore leave gone crazy wacky bad. Something.
God help me, even a holodeck episode would be welcome at this point.
Correct me if I’m wrong.
A copy of Control injected itself into a crewman on a random Section 31 ship and ejected itself and the entire crew into space, all on the chance that Burnham would notice a ten-minute late check-in and come investigate?
It wasn’t even Burnham who noticed! She doesn’t have access to Section 31. If the other guy didn’t mention the late check-in to her this entire episode wouldn’t have happened.
That bridge!!! It was perfect and I loved every second they showed it!!!
Well that was… something. I’m surprised they couldn’t find a way to have the ghost of Captain Lorca pop in and tell Michael how awesome she is, too.
Man does this season bores me to death… bla bla sob sob bla bla sob sob… ugh
Why isn’t anyone up in arms about giving the show a female lead who can never stop crying? Can you imagine if they had written Janeway like that?