He reminds me of the captain from season 1.
This season will end with him as captain of “Discovery” (because Burnham has been made President of the Universe or something) and he’ll unveil his warp command - while wearing the new tie dye-inspired Starfleet uniform and heart-shaped pink sunglass - by saying “far out”.
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I didn’t realize that Apple was doing an adaptation of Dark Matter. It was an interesting book that I can imagine being successfully adapted to the screen, so I’m hopeful. And it has Jennifer Connelly, so I’m all in regardless.
You have my attention.
What about Shrinking, Season 2, on Apple TV? Is it out or is it canceled?
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It’s in production, I think it comes out this summer. Brett Goldstein (Roy Kent) is a writer for th show, and is going to be in a few episodes this season
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“Oi! Quit fucking moping!”
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Hey Siri! As a Gen Xer, what would my parents have said in response to symptoms of neurodivergence?
Four episodes into Fallout. I’m enjoying it much more than I thought I would. I have zero familiarity with the games but it’s a lot of fun (and gore) regardless.
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It’s just a good show. I had no prior exposure either, but I imagine there are a lot of “Leo pointing at the TV” moments for those who are.
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Anyone watching Constellation (Apple+)? Man, creepy creepy show but engaging enough that Mrs Sid, who hates anything scary or creepy is still invested in it.
We watched ep4 last night (post a great Space Cowboys game) and we needed two episodes of Eureka for a palate cleanser.
I had been watching, but I haven’t yet gone back after Ep 5. Some of the threads are getting too stretched out, and it’s time for them to fish or cut bait. I’m sure I’ll finish it, but I’m not sitting here watching the clock and waiting for the next episode. I think Dark Matter has more potential as a multiverse story.
Right now I’m watching 3 Body Problem, and I’m glad I read the books. I think it would be a bit hard to follow without that background.
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I started Constellation tonight. I’m on Ep 2, and it’s like a boring rewarming of Event Horizon.
I’m getting more irritated than intrigued.
Disco does a flashback episode right after doing a flashback episode. I am lost for words.
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And they put Michael at the conn of the Enterprise. FFS.
This is one of those episodes where
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the plot completely collapses under the slightest scrutiny. Burnham has to pilot the shuttle because of course she does. She takes Book with her because of course she does. Whatever. They find evil 1701, whatever. But then they each get the main antagonists in 1:1 situations, with Burnham’s phaser trained on L’ak while he’s put his down and Moll has her back turned to Book, and neither of them take their shots? Again?? Come on man. Heavy stun, take the artifact, take them captive, bada bing bada boom.
Then when evil 1701 emerges from the space butthole Moll and L’ak get away in an escape pod and Burnham is like, “We don’t need to chase them, we have their warp signature, nothing to worry about.” Except by the end of the episode we hear that all of Starfleet is looking for them, which sounds a lot to me like they don’t have a damn clue where Moll and L’ak are. How incompetent are these 32nd century fuckheads that they can’t track a 900-year-old escape pod that has a distinctly unique quantum signature because it’s from a parallel universe? Jeezus.
At best, the good guys seem more concerned with peacemaking and group therapy than securing the Progenitor’s tech, and at worst their actions simply make them look like they don’t give two shits about their mission. In the previous episode Burnham takes 30-45 seconds to speechify her unconscious past self while precious minutes tick away. In this episode Tilley is hard at work trying to restore communications with Burnham but would absolutely drop everything to be a shoulder for Culber to cry on if he hadn’t waved her off. I can suspend a lot of disbelief to watch Star Trek, but I cannot make myself believe that these characters are good at their jobs or that they care about anything besides themselves and each other in a very narrow-minded way. Rayner’s impatience with Burnham, the Disco crew, and Admiral Just-for-Men reflects better on him with each episode, and it actually helps bring his social/emotional isolation into focus: maybe he is actually the smartest guy in the room.
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Ravvat!
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Right from the jump, Burnham says she’s going on the away mission; Rayner says there’s no way as Captain she should do that, yet Burnham calls dibs. I know Disco is of TOS-era Trek, where Kirk went on every mission, but it also has a TNG-era crew hierarchy where the Captain stayed home and No. 1 lead the away teams.
You’re absolutely right about how this show disintegrates under the merest scrutiny. Like how getting through the worm’s anus was this extraordinarily tricky thing that Burnham just eyeball’s like she’s me doing home improvement.
The Michael Bayification of the action sequences - such that they have to have an emotional beat right in the fucking middle of an emergency - is just so fucking ridiculous. The show runners here clearly never saw Team America.
Step 1: Shoehorn in a ticking clock to up the ante
Step 2: Have all the characters freak out about the ticking clock
Step 3: Have two characters sit down for a therapy session while literal flames spout from nowhere for no reason to emphasize the direness of the situation
Step 4: Michael Burnham something something whisper
Step 5: All good.
I am watching now purely for completionism. I know it’s ending after this season, but who looks away half way through a train wreck? It doesn’t make me angry or anything, it’s simply a marvel to me that they doubled down on the shit that got them cancelled.
That, and the fact that SNW rocked up and nuked them from orbit on how to do TOS-era Trek right. I thought Disco might find its feet in the 32nd century, but all they did was boldly faceplant where no one has faceplanted before.
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Future Trek speculation:
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Why did they feel the need to bring mirror Enterprise into the 32nd century, and have Detmer and someone else (didn’t catch the name) fly it off somewhere (didn’t catch the place)?
Are they going to make a new 32nd century-based series about an upfitted Enterprise that is free of the deus ex machina of the spore drive?
Are they going to destroy Discovery at the end of the series and put Burnham at the helm of a 32nd century Enterprise?
There would be a huge opportunity for a 23rd century Enterprise / 32nd century Enterprise crossover reuniting Burnham and Spock, so…yeah…they’re going to do this.
Do they even have enough viewers to justify a new series?
It depends on why they think Disco failed and if they think they can fix that with a new series. SNW and Picard S3 show that they can make good Trek…
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