I am generally a viewer who zones out during action scenes, but wow, Michelle Yeoh was amazing in that. It was both clear what was happening and fun to watch! And I really, really enjoyed Lorca's death. I actually clapped. Burnham refusing to kill him and Emperor Georgiou doing it was so perfect, as was the poetic justice idea rebounding on him with the fall into the orb.

I'm sure they will bring him back in some way, but at this point, that feels MUCH cheaper to me than him being from the Mirrorverse, because they totally won me over on how thoroughly that latter twist was earned. I think they also established him as a dangerous enough villain that having him out in the multiverse without being a primary antagonist would cheapen him. (At least it was plausible that Q periodically disappeared between bouts indulging his Picard obsession.) Given that he spouts vile racist rhetoric but is beloved by the fanbase, I'm actually much more worried about the show giving him undeserved forgiveness than evil Georgiou. The latter is clearly set up as Burnhams's Tyler/Voq 2.

So I think Burnham--oh I love Burnham, and oh I hate how much hate she gets on the web!--bringing evil Georgiou back was a really good twist—totally embedded in character but not one I saw coming at all, especially since Georgiou having her one redeeming moment was such a great and unexpected honor for a thoroughly evil character. And now Burnham's actions have undone it, and their relationship, in one blow. (The transporter jump was also a recall of L'rell jumping on Voq/Tyler, which is an interesting parallel--two characters who originally loved each other but divided because one of them is literally now a different person.)

(Actually if they are going to undo the deaths of Lorca and Culber (which irritates me), I wonder if they will undo prime Georgiou's too. It would make a certain amount of sense in terms of Burnham's arc.)

My main complaint about the episode is that at the end, with the Klingon reveal, I thought, oh, now Tyler will become relevant again. And then I realized he hadn't appeared all episode and I hadn't missed him, and that troubled me in terms of the pacing. But I am excited to see what happens next!