Add Discovery S5

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 I guess we'll see what Strange New Worlds brings.
 
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+in medias res is overused dont @ me
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+what's that frakking cylon doing on a starship
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+The Chase is not a TNG episode I ever expected to return
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+It was particularly apparent in the scene where Burnham and Saru were trying to find the clue, but a big reason Discovery's never quite felt like real Star Trek to me is that everyone is always so frantic. I wish them all a very chill out and try to think things through.
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+i find it very hard to muster any interest in the teenage relationship drama of it all
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+other than that, I found this episode wholly unobjectionable
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+my money was on using the transporters to go everywhere (why can’t you just walk to the ready room) being the cause of the problem, not a good thing
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+The Krenim! love a good Voyager reference. wait this whole thing is like a reference to that one voyager episode
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+Is this that one Short Trek? nope, guess not. have any of those ended up being canonical?
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+this was a fun episode. filler episodes are good—give the plot time to breathe, don’t rush through everything (this is what I miss about the good old days of network-length seasons)
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+Right there, when Michael reassured first officer Commander Gruff Whatshisname that embodies one of the things I find irksome about Discovery. The characters can’t just accept what someone else says, they have to tell the other why they said it. “I don’t believe you, my first officer, are reasonably concerned about my safety. Actually, you’re telling me that because you’re scared of being left in charge.” That’s not how people talk to each other, and it makes the show feel like the characters are all constantly psychoanalyzing each other.
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+I like the new Breen look
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+I thought this was a good, enjoyable episode overall. I liked Moll and Lak’s backstory, and that we got to finally learn more about the Breen
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+a legal pad wouldn't survive a thousand years, disbelief unsuspended
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+holographic dead grandmothers is... uh...
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+"water would have to be extracted from the air" => confirmed discovery is going to arrakis
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+isolinear chips are back, baby
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+the connection to the progenitors is still neat, but overall I don't find the scavenger hunt terribly compelling
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+"Seven of Limes"
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+do starfleet security train at the stormtrooper academy of marksmanship. i've never understood how they get so many shots off and none of them land
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+Ooh, the badlands
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+I don't find Moll and Lak to be particularly interesting characters, but this was a pretty solid episode nonetheless
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+the library location is very cool
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+"Moll takes over a Breen warship" is an uninteresting plot line
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+another episode that was... fine. that's really been the vibe of this whole season
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+that sure was one of the episodes of all time. idk, i’ve found it really quite hard to muster any enthusiasm for this whole season of discovery. there’s only one episode left of the show, and if i never saw it? i don’t think i’d be disappointed
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+The managed to pull off an ending to the progenitor story line that worked much better than I expected it to.
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+Agent Daniels, lmao. literally yelled out "what in the fuck" when he said that
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+and they finally closed the loop on the Short Trek "Calypso"
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+emotional finale with old Burnham imagining hugging everyone really didn't do anything for me.
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+and so ends Discovery.
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+This season was... whelming. Neither over- nor underwhelming though, it went about exactly as I expected it to: humongous threat that only Discovery can handle, with a generous helping of interpersonal turmoil among the crew.
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+Respect where it is due: I think Discovery is in no small part responsible for ushering in the modern era of Star Trek. But this show has never quite worked for me. It feels like it wants to be too many things. It wants to be this action-packed scifi spectacle, while also being focused on the characters and their relationships with each other. But it doesn't give either enough room to breathe, and as a result you get... this.
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+At the end of season 4, I said, "I guess we’ll see what Strange New Worlds brings." And boy did it bring something better. It manages to have its action and character development/relationships with out constantly feeling like those were in tension. I don't know for certain why Discovery fails at the same thing. Perhaps it's the combination of a single, serialized plot and the seeming inability of the writers to have anything other than calamitous stakes.
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+And now Discovery is over, and I don't feel particularly sad—not like I do when other shows/books/series end. That's, in part, how I can tell it never quite clicked with me.