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<blockquote data-quote="Jester David" data-source="post: 7601063" data-attributes="member: 37579"><p>Watched the finale. Because I need to "finish" things. </p><p></p><p>I was amused by Philippa Georgiou's defeat of Control. Because I've been repeatedly referring to her as "Space Hitler" this whole season. Cause she is. Being the former leader of a fascist state responsible for innumerable deaths and the genocide of several people. </p><p>And then she beats Control by locking him in a "gas chamber". </p><p></p><p>Also, watching the show awkwardly try and explain why no one ever mentions Discovery, the Spore Drive, and Michael Burnham again was super awkward. Especially as we don't really NEED a reason why Spock wouldn't mention his sister. Because he also never talked about his brother. (Which just becomes more weird, as you'd think Sybok would have appeared at least once in the childhood scenes. Or been mentioned once. They could have done some interesting stuff, where it's Michael's influence that makes him emotional.)</p><p></p><p></p><p>I'm a little surprised by the praise the final battle got. It was basically SFX porn. Shot after shot of myriad lasers filling the screen but nothing really happening. Innumerable explosions outside the hull of <em>Discovery </em>and <em>Enterprise</em>, but no real sign of it having an impact on the hulls of the ship. Because there were ridiculous numbers of tiny fighters, it was impossible to track anything, and there was never really any sense of scale, or how badly the opponents were doing. If they were suffering fighter losses or not. </p><p>That whole battle could have been much more effective had they not turned it into <em>Battlestar Galactica </em>with needless fighter wings piloted by faceless mooks (literally, as we never see any) and just had three or four Section 31 ships against <em>Discovery </em>and <em>Enterprise</em>, so you could get a sense of the scope and damage. While we get a continual rundown of the damage and shield status on the hero ships, we never get told anything of their opponents. And there's so much going on, you can't tell if any of them are exploding or not.</p><p></p><p></p><p>So the season is over. Oh man... soooooo many plot holes. </p><p></p><p>There were several episodes of "We can't delete the sphere data! The data won't let itself be destroyed!" But that's problematic as there are so many ways to blow up a starship. </p><p>The data is in the computer core: go there with a hand phaser and blow it up. Fill the interiour of the ship with photons and remote detonate. Overload the warp core. Fly the ship into a sun. </p><p>That's the show in a nutshell. The plot says X but the the writers can't be bothered to really justify it, so they try two simple things and give up. Everyone becomes really stupid. Like a campaign on the rails, where nothing the PCs do will have any impact. </p><p></p><p>Then there was the time limit, as Leyland was getting nearer and nearer. Which, again, is terrible plotting. Because the Discovery can spore jump 51,000 light years (oh, to say, New Eden) and leisurely charge the time device during the 150 years it would take Control to arrive. Or, y'know, just spore jump the Sphere Data into deep space beyond the galactic barrier where Control can't reach it. </p><p></p><p>Plus... how was Control defeated exactly? It operated multiple people before, puppeting Leland and the other officer. And it was in the computer of the Section 31 ship before it animated Leland. Why would it transfer all of itself into Leland and let itself die with him? </p><p>Why wouldn't it have made full copies in all the Section 31 ships as well as a few remote back-up locations?</p><p></p><p></p><p>The final episode also provided the perfect example of how the show fails to capture the tone of Star Trek.</p><p>Everyone is running around engineering building the new time suit. They're replicating away and being absolute jackasses to each other. They're sniping at each other, insulting each other, and generally being super mean. </p><p>Seriously?! </p><p>These aren't high schoolers preparing a parade float. These are trained military officers and members of an elite organization. They should be demonstrating some degree of professionalism rather than taking pet shots. Every single person in that scene needed to be written up for disciplinary action.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jester David, post: 7601063, member: 37579"] Watched the finale. Because I need to "finish" things. I was amused by Philippa Georgiou's defeat of Control. Because I've been repeatedly referring to her as "Space Hitler" this whole season. Cause she is. Being the former leader of a fascist state responsible for innumerable deaths and the genocide of several people. And then she beats Control by locking him in a "gas chamber". Also, watching the show awkwardly try and explain why no one ever mentions Discovery, the Spore Drive, and Michael Burnham again was super awkward. Especially as we don't really NEED a reason why Spock wouldn't mention his sister. Because he also never talked about his brother. (Which just becomes more weird, as you'd think Sybok would have appeared at least once in the childhood scenes. Or been mentioned once. They could have done some interesting stuff, where it's Michael's influence that makes him emotional.) I'm a little surprised by the praise the final battle got. It was basically SFX porn. Shot after shot of myriad lasers filling the screen but nothing really happening. Innumerable explosions outside the hull of [I]Discovery [/I]and [I]Enterprise[/I], but no real sign of it having an impact on the hulls of the ship. Because there were ridiculous numbers of tiny fighters, it was impossible to track anything, and there was never really any sense of scale, or how badly the opponents were doing. If they were suffering fighter losses or not. That whole battle could have been much more effective had they not turned it into [I]Battlestar Galactica [/I]with needless fighter wings piloted by faceless mooks (literally, as we never see any) and just had three or four Section 31 ships against [I]Discovery [/I]and [I]Enterprise[/I], so you could get a sense of the scope and damage. While we get a continual rundown of the damage and shield status on the hero ships, we never get told anything of their opponents. And there's so much going on, you can't tell if any of them are exploding or not. So the season is over. Oh man... soooooo many plot holes. There were several episodes of "We can't delete the sphere data! The data won't let itself be destroyed!" But that's problematic as there are so many ways to blow up a starship. The data is in the computer core: go there with a hand phaser and blow it up. Fill the interiour of the ship with photons and remote detonate. Overload the warp core. Fly the ship into a sun. That's the show in a nutshell. The plot says X but the the writers can't be bothered to really justify it, so they try two simple things and give up. Everyone becomes really stupid. Like a campaign on the rails, where nothing the PCs do will have any impact. Then there was the time limit, as Leyland was getting nearer and nearer. Which, again, is terrible plotting. Because the Discovery can spore jump 51,000 light years (oh, to say, New Eden) and leisurely charge the time device during the 150 years it would take Control to arrive. Or, y'know, just spore jump the Sphere Data into deep space beyond the galactic barrier where Control can't reach it. Plus... how was Control defeated exactly? It operated multiple people before, puppeting Leland and the other officer. And it was in the computer of the Section 31 ship before it animated Leland. Why would it transfer all of itself into Leland and let itself die with him? Why wouldn't it have made full copies in all the Section 31 ships as well as a few remote back-up locations? The final episode also provided the perfect example of how the show fails to capture the tone of Star Trek. Everyone is running around engineering building the new time suit. They're replicating away and being absolute jackasses to each other. They're sniping at each other, insulting each other, and generally being super mean. Seriously?! These aren't high schoolers preparing a parade float. These are trained military officers and members of an elite organization. They should be demonstrating some degree of professionalism rather than taking pet shots. Every single person in that scene needed to be written up for disciplinary action. [/QUOTE]
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