Yeah, but you get what I’m saying right?
I’ll spoiler tag it:
Michael did set the seven signals, it turns out at the end. So if Michael had died in this timeline, those seven signals wouldn’t have been seen, which means that once we’re already on this timeline, Michael can’t be killed until she sets the seven signals. It could happen on a different timeline, or this timeline could be wiped clean I suppose, but again, then you don’t need to worry about Michael being dead, because if Michael dies, Michael can’t later set the signals, which means they never went on this quest in the first place, which means that Michael didn’t die after all in the altered timeline. So once you start with the assumption that in this timeline Michael can’t die until she sets the signals, then something will happen, guaranteed, to rescue her from death in this timeline.
Yeah, I do, but there was no indication we were in that type of time travel story, as opposed to the ones where present reality gets rewritten, or the ones where timeline splits, etc. It also requires Pike and company to be dramatic idiots.
The attractiveness of the data was how far advanced it was. Ostensibly, 900 years in the future the gap wouldn’t be so great. An AI laying dormant that long wouldn’t be an optimal strategy. That said, Leland and his nanites—“dead” as they may be—got dragged into the future along with the rest of Discovery, so I wonder if there’s some latent danger to be found there.
So I’ve been watching Season 2. I may have to put this show aside. There are some bright points in the show, but by and large it is waaaaaaaay too emo for my taste. Meh.
Yeah, I was a big fan of Season 1, while several of my friends thought it was terrible and stupid. But I was confident that they were, in fact, the stupid ones. After watching Season 2 I’m asking myself “Was I the stupid one all along? Is there any way that a team that created something so awful in Season 2 could have ever created anything good?”. There were just so many sour notes in Season 2 that it’s killed my interest in their reboot and made me doubt that I was correct to ever like it. Maybe Orville is the better Trek.
I just finished Season 1 and started season 2. This show is weird in some ways - relative to other treks - but I like it. There’s some stupid writing in season 1 at times, and I feel like it drifted a bit in terms of tone, but I still liked it overall.
Yea the changing of the producers/writers through the first two seasons leads to allot of odd tones and story/plot changes.
I don’t know how early a change occured, but for Season 1 e.g.
Early into Michael joining Discovery Tily looks super freaked out their first night after saying she can’t offer information regarding the Black Alert. And then later Tillets has his reflection hang out in the mirror for a bit. Those seemed like actual horror elements but then the only weirdness from Tillets ever again was basically mood swings. And Tily never acted anything like that again.
That said I think it’s better than the sum of it’s parts, by far (and some of the parts are really good. Martin-Green especially).
Its changed several times already. Watch the opening credits and see the crazy number of credited producers on the show.
Also, um, they appear to have given the Klingons a touch up. By “touch up”, I mean “a significant new visual design”.
Yea it was allot more than just growing their hair back like Burnham says on the show.
And I like that specific plot point, that apparently Klingons had shaved their heads because Jihad or something. But. . . yeah. Lol.
So, I finished watching S2. I like the plot in both S1 and S2 fairly well. Spock and Burnham are great in the scenes they share. In fact, I started liking the show a lot more when Spock showed up. The last half of S2 was also more plot driven and featured fewer IMO cringey personal/emotional scenes. I am looking forward to S3.
Wasn’t really sure how I’d feel about the first season, and so far halfway through S1 other than disliking the uniforms and the dumb outfits of the Klingons, I am enjoying the show. :)
The spore drive stuff is pretty cool, it will be interesting to see what they do to remove it by the time the series ends.
You won’t have to wait until the series ends to get your answers, they handle that by the end of season 2.
I have to say that the people they got to play Pike and Spock ( Anson Mount and Ethan Peck ) both did a fantastic job with the roles. In fact there is a major push to do a limited series about Pike and his crew’s final 5 year mission. It would fill in a part of Federation history that really hasn’t much been explored and could give us that much desired return to an old school “exploration era” Trek series.
I like Ethan Peck. I think he did a good job. But he looks just like Holden in The Expanse.
Who happens to look just like Jon Snow in GoT, apparently.
“You know nothing, James Holden.”
Finished up season 1, and nope…I didn’t like how they resolved the Klingon plot.
I’m going to sign up for All Access pretty soon for Picard so I can finally watch me some Discovery! I just figured you guys would want to know.
Yay! You’ve got a treat waiting for you. But just keep in mind that it’s very different from previous Treks.
