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dolariFinally watched the entirety of Star Trek: Discovery's second season. All I can say is that it's amazing how one clear through line and vision can turn a series around.
The first season felt very scattered. Lots of baits and switches, lots of sudden storyline changes for no real good reason, It felt like the show runners were fighting for competing visions for the series in real time during production.
Season 2, though, has a good straight through-line and great characters with a few swerves that make sense in the story. To the point that while I tolerated Season 1 (to the point, I was gonna skip Season 2), I genuinely enjoyed Season 2.
Two real standouts were Michelle Yeoh as Georgiou and Anson Mount as Pike. These two really steal the show. Between Georgious earnest catty-ness and Pike as the Conssumate Starfleet Captain, the show really gains a necessary foundation for the rest of the crew revolve around. Watching Georgiou's turning to the good guys without actually BECOMING a good guy was beautiful. As was Pike's revelation that he would soon be horrifyingly wounded (and the fact that it weighs heavily on him for episodes afterwards is a really nice touch).
My only real problems was Spock's attitude to his sister (yes, there are also continuity problems to contend with, but I've completely bought into the Multiverse theory and this is not the TOS universe). I realize they were making him downright angry at his sister for things she said in their youth so there's a real emotional resolution at the end, but Spock doesn't (1) come across at someone who holds a grudge and (2) this just isn't Spock like at all.
I'm actually really looking forward to season 3. Where I was looking forward to Season 2 just to see how the writers would get out of their cliffhanger.
Also...REALLY looking forward to the Georgiou spin off. :)
The first season felt very scattered. Lots of baits and switches, lots of sudden storyline changes for no real good reason, It felt like the show runners were fighting for competing visions for the series in real time during production.
Season 2, though, has a good straight through-line and great characters with a few swerves that make sense in the story. To the point that while I tolerated Season 1 (to the point, I was gonna skip Season 2), I genuinely enjoyed Season 2.
Two real standouts were Michelle Yeoh as Georgiou and Anson Mount as Pike. These two really steal the show. Between Georgious earnest catty-ness and Pike as the Conssumate Starfleet Captain, the show really gains a necessary foundation for the rest of the crew revolve around. Watching Georgiou's turning to the good guys without actually BECOMING a good guy was beautiful. As was Pike's revelation that he would soon be horrifyingly wounded (and the fact that it weighs heavily on him for episodes afterwards is a really nice touch).
My only real problems was Spock's attitude to his sister (yes, there are also continuity problems to contend with, but I've completely bought into the Multiverse theory and this is not the TOS universe). I realize they were making him downright angry at his sister for things she said in their youth so there's a real emotional resolution at the end, but Spock doesn't (1) come across at someone who holds a grudge and (2) this just isn't Spock like at all.
I'm actually really looking forward to season 3. Where I was looking forward to Season 2 just to see how the writers would get out of their cliffhanger.
Also...REALLY looking forward to the Georgiou spin off. :)
