Star Trek: Discovery 3.06
Nov. 20th, 2020 07:12 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
selenakIn which the Burn is only the second most interesting mystery of the season for now.
Seriously though: of course I'm interested, but for now, what I truly want to know is what's up with Mirror Georgiou. The less interesting possibility is that someone - David Cronenberg or someone else - hacked into her brain, so to speak, and induces her artifically to have these flashbacks. The more interesting possibility is that after more than a year, the do-gooders in the Primeverse and her relationship with Prime Michael are starting to dismantle the hardcore callousness a bit (and not just in the sense that she'd rather keep Michael alive). And she has such a lot of blood on her hands.
Mind you, so far it seems to me based on the Emperor bringing up for the first time since s1 "her" Michael again and the fact that what she flashes back to is either her being struck with a blade or her striking someone else with a blade that the memory plagueing her is specific to Mirror Michael. And we never did find out what exactly happened to her beyond "she teamed up with Lorca, attempted a coup, it failed, she died". So if the memory is Mirror Burnham trying to kill her foster mother, that would be not about something Georgiou did but what was done to her. It would still be interesting for me to pursue. The relationship between Mirror Georgiou and Primeverse Michael started with a lot of mutual projecting on both their parts - they knew, in theory, that they were different people but still saw their respective counterparts in each other - but by now I think they're emotionally bonded to the person the other truly is. See also Michael's crack about Georgiou running the emotional gamut from cranky to homicidal, something she never would have said to Primeverse Georgiou whom she hero-worshiped. (It's also a bit of lampshading on the part of the writers, I suspect, because that's how they've written Georgiou for most of s2 and in the last few s1 eps once she had left the Mirrorverse. ) Add last episode's observation of how the news that the Terran Empire has fallen centuries ago and that there is no more contact possibility gets to Georgiou, and I really do think we're in for Mirrorverse Philippa character development and exploration.
Meanwhile, in the future: poor Saru. This really sucked for him, and I'm glad the show doesn't handwave this away just because Michael's rogue trip was successful. I also like that we keep hearing what current day Starfleet does beyond having fancy ships; last week the theme was medical help, this week it's help wit food shortage. Since the season is making the argument that Starfleet and the Federation are in fact necessay and a force of good, it's excellent world building.
The action quota is met by Michael and Georgiou breaking out Book & Co. from imprisonment. When it looked like the show made this week's Andorian the redshirt of the episode I grumbled, because one lasting effect watching Enterprise has left me with is that I want a recurring Andorian again. But no, he survived, and I suspect the Andorian-Orion Syndicate will provide a longer subplot this season, with Book and this guy infiltrating it.
Book/Michael kiss: it worked, they have chemistry, but so far I'm neutral on this 'ship. If I am to get invested, I need to know more about Booker.
On the other hand: Return of Grudge! I am delighted the cat kindly provided us with some useful new clips,including of her with Tilly. And Book having a Grudge-connected device is a both useful and endearing quality of his.
Lastly: Adira is still referred to as "she", and it seems like we're going with Gray as a separate entity, who really is still around somehow, not the reason why Adira is/will be non binary. Since we get another reference to her extreme youth (of Adira, that is, not of Tal), my current theory is that the true reason why Adira is just sixteen years old is that she actually hasn't yet completely out her identity in this regard, and we'll get to see her do it, complete with change of pronoun once she does. (Because otherwise, why not let the character be a few years older?) Also, previously we'e seen Hugh Culber use his return-from-the-dead experiences to help Discovery's crew readjust; now Paul Stamets uses his "in love with a person who really truly died but is still around" experience to connect to Adira. Hooray for continuity!
Seriously though: of course I'm interested, but for now, what I truly want to know is what's up with Mirror Georgiou. The less interesting possibility is that someone - David Cronenberg or someone else - hacked into her brain, so to speak, and induces her artifically to have these flashbacks. The more interesting possibility is that after more than a year, the do-gooders in the Primeverse and her relationship with Prime Michael are starting to dismantle the hardcore callousness a bit (and not just in the sense that she'd rather keep Michael alive). And she has such a lot of blood on her hands.
Mind you, so far it seems to me based on the Emperor bringing up for the first time since s1 "her" Michael again and the fact that what she flashes back to is either her being struck with a blade or her striking someone else with a blade that the memory plagueing her is specific to Mirror Michael. And we never did find out what exactly happened to her beyond "she teamed up with Lorca, attempted a coup, it failed, she died". So if the memory is Mirror Burnham trying to kill her foster mother, that would be not about something Georgiou did but what was done to her. It would still be interesting for me to pursue. The relationship between Mirror Georgiou and Primeverse Michael started with a lot of mutual projecting on both their parts - they knew, in theory, that they were different people but still saw their respective counterparts in each other - but by now I think they're emotionally bonded to the person the other truly is. See also Michael's crack about Georgiou running the emotional gamut from cranky to homicidal, something she never would have said to Primeverse Georgiou whom she hero-worshiped. (It's also a bit of lampshading on the part of the writers, I suspect, because that's how they've written Georgiou for most of s2 and in the last few s1 eps once she had left the Mirrorverse. ) Add last episode's observation of how the news that the Terran Empire has fallen centuries ago and that there is no more contact possibility gets to Georgiou, and I really do think we're in for Mirrorverse Philippa character development and exploration.
Meanwhile, in the future: poor Saru. This really sucked for him, and I'm glad the show doesn't handwave this away just because Michael's rogue trip was successful. I also like that we keep hearing what current day Starfleet does beyond having fancy ships; last week the theme was medical help, this week it's help wit food shortage. Since the season is making the argument that Starfleet and the Federation are in fact necessay and a force of good, it's excellent world building.
The action quota is met by Michael and Georgiou breaking out Book & Co. from imprisonment. When it looked like the show made this week's Andorian the redshirt of the episode I grumbled, because one lasting effect watching Enterprise has left me with is that I want a recurring Andorian again. But no, he survived, and I suspect the Andorian-Orion Syndicate will provide a longer subplot this season, with Book and this guy infiltrating it.
Book/Michael kiss: it worked, they have chemistry, but so far I'm neutral on this 'ship. If I am to get invested, I need to know more about Booker.
On the other hand: Return of Grudge! I am delighted the cat kindly provided us with some useful new clips,including of her with Tilly. And Book having a Grudge-connected device is a both useful and endearing quality of his.
Lastly: Adira is still referred to as "she", and it seems like we're going with Gray as a separate entity, who really is still around somehow, not the reason why Adira is/will be non binary. Since we get another reference to her extreme youth (of Adira, that is, not of Tal), my current theory is that the true reason why Adira is just sixteen years old is that she actually hasn't yet completely out her identity in this regard, and we'll get to see her do it, complete with change of pronoun once she does. (Because otherwise, why not let the character be a few years older?) Also, previously we'e seen Hugh Culber use his return-from-the-dead experiences to help Discovery's crew readjust; now Paul Stamets uses his "in love with a person who really truly died but is still around" experience to connect to Adira. Hooray for continuity!
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Date: 2020-11-20 07:30 pm (UTC)And regarding Book and Michael, it's so weird to me that they have excellent chemistry and sparks fly when they're doing scenes together, but then... the kiss did nothing for me? Like, it was so tame and cautious in comparison. Idk, just fell completely flat for me for some reason.
I really hope we get tons more Grudge. Cat hairs on all the uniforms *g*
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Date: 2020-11-21 06:25 am (UTC)re: the kiss, I think one reason why it just got an "okay, next" from me emotionally is there weren't any obstacles or stakes to overcome; they clearly like each other, know they can trust each other, and have taken it to the next step. Which is emotionally healthy! But not least because of the missing year (for the audience), there wasn't any build up where you could become invested in them taking this step, which is imo one of the things in tv fiction that make a first kiss work.
Grudge: truly the secret ruler of the universe. :)