Dark Matter, on Apple, has a very attractive Jennifer Connelly in it. I have no idea what the show is about quite yet.
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(I love UHF, though!)
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I have no idea what it would take to make Jennifer Connelly unattractive
I take it you’ve never seen Requium For A Dream?
No, and have no desire to
It’s on the list of really good movies that you will never want to watch a 2nd time
I tried to watch it once…and couldn’t.
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Don’t blame you at all.
I still don’t buy that the Breen wouldn’t have filleted Space Bonnie the minute they had her, much less that they would follow her as their leader.
And Michael pausing while in disguise on the Breen ship to pull Book aside to share some important emotional insight is perhaps the quintessential Diso moment.
Rayner is holding his own nicely.
For the rest of you who are also not watching this show, do not bother trying to google “Space Bonnie”. Limey can keep his bunk all to himself.
That’s because he’s going to helm a spin-off show when Michael - using the Progenitor’s tech - evolves into a newer, elevated state of existence.
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The withering look on his face when the Breen snatch the keg from the Disco is the same as the look on the audience’s faces.
Seriously, what the fuck were the writers thinking? If you’re going to have the Breen get the keg and require Disco to try to board their ship, just have the Breen get there first because Disco hasn’t finished repairs yet. The way they did it only drives home how incompetent these people are.
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Not to mention the ludicrous idea that 2 black holes would be in such close proximity that you could suspend something in between them and pan out enough to still make it the debris field, see a couple of starships, and see the entirety of the outlines of the black holes (nicely outlined in visible light).
Star Trek has played loosey-goosey with the science part of science fiction. But Disco has all the scientific advisors hanging in a closet by their underwear as they make stuff up.
A barrier encasing the entire galaxy? Bosh! Flimshaw!
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And that’s to say nothing of the time dilation that would occur being that close to a black hole. I was really hoping they would incorporate that somehow, but Trek has always just kind of hand-waved away the physics of time.
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totally fucking lame
Alright, I watched the Disco finale.
Summary
After some dumb fight scenes with Moll, Burnham finds the progenitor tech, a lot of nothing happens, and then Burnham destroys it. Characters purportedly in life-or-death situations still find time to psychoanalyze themselves and each other, which doesn’t do much to sell the stakes. As season finales go, not quite as bad as “crying kid caused the Burn” but close.
The last 20-30 minutes (which is obviously the reshoot material after they learned the show was cancelled) was completely unnecessary and only proved that the writers thought we only ever cared about Burnham. One last fuck-you to the rest of the cast.
I especially hated the final scene with Zora. Anyone who watched the “Calypso” Short Trek would not feel good about this ending, because Burnham is sentencing Zora (who, by the way, has been established as a sentient being tantamount to being a crew member) to a very long time of solitude. It’s not like the TNG finale where you’re sad that Picard missed out on closer friendships with his crew but you’re glad he’s opening himself to that now. There is nothing happy about this ending, but Burnham and the music tell you you’re supposed to be happy about it.
This show left so much meat on the bone. I’m glad it’s over.
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I’m in the ending part now. It’s like they saw Return of the King, and thought let’s do that but shitty.
Disco finale:
Spoilers
There was so much stupid in this show, but this really stood out for me: why was Burnham the only one to get to decide what to do with the Progenitors’ tech? We are told that it is because she followed the path to get there but - ignoring the fact that she was like the 4th or 5th person to enter the portal at that time - she didn’t get there purely on her own qualities.
Her crew was significantly responsible for solving the clues and getting her from one to the next. On that basis, it should’ve been a team decision what to do with the tech, because Burnham wasn’t worthy of that burden on her own by the very test stated in the show.
But, no. Burnham showed up, had a fight with everyone else there and was declared the GOAT by the Progenitors because she solved a puzzle that would be too easy for a children’s book.
The finale was rife with all the issues that has plagued the show. I mean:
- WTF was all that shit with Dr. Hugh suddenly being able to channel his long gone symbiote even though everything established prior to that point had said this was impossible?
- How come Hugh’s long-gone symbiote knew the PIN anyway?
- Why didn’t Burnham, having taken down Moll with a leg kick, not just grab the gun instead of running away? Where was she going to go?
- Why didn’t Burnham use her personal transporter to get out of Windy World?
- Why didn’t Burnham nano-magic another phaser at any point ever when she needed one?
- And WHY ARE THERE FUCKING FLAME TUBES ON THE FUCKING BRIDGE?
Finally, how the fuck does Burnham get back from whatever far-flung corner of the galaxy she stowed Discovery at?
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