Everyone wants to keep it a secret, but the truth is that, minus the first episode, this season has been AMAZING.

No more delays. No more waiting. Neither space nor time nor crazy robot girlfriends could keep them apart for long but why risk it? They tried to do some world saving first and ended up with Fear dimension creeping in. So no more stalling.

They’re calling it a bottle episode because it has nothing to do with the conspiracy plot. It should be called a monster-of-the-week episode.

Yes. Opinions can be wrong.

Thank you for bringing up Maximum Overdrive. The often overlooked slapstick horror of when AI attacks, soundtrack by ACDC which in itself is hilarious.

I don’t know, I’ve quite enjoyed this season. As have many fans that I’ve talked to. Feels a lot more like “the old days” than the previous run did.

So, the episode confirms what we’ve always believed:

Once you knew? I figured you were supposed to know that was the inciting incident from the moment it happens. It’s not supposed to be a surprise.

i’m reminded of an episode of the twilight zone “invaders” starring agnes moorehead where she is in silent terror in her battle against what are beings from another planet whose sentience is belied by their toylike appearance. a precursor to the AI theme.

How about “The Birds” moment when he turns around to follow the single drone and sees the huge flock of drones in his room? The two things I love about Muls? He has the best reaction expressions and he bows to no one. Wham! Down it goes with swing of the bat. And Sculs with her lack of surprise saved a raised eyebrow…

Absolutely fantastic episode, even though it’s sort of one-note. Also, was that a really obscure Blade Runner reference in the altered Hopper painting in the café with the machines substituting the original people?

This. Burnham was wrong to mutiny, but was exactly right about the Klingons. Georghiou and Starfleet command were wrong and started the war. The show even admits Burnham was right. L’rell tells the admiral that devasting the Klingons is the only way to stop their aggression. And although the Federation doesn’t resort…

You pretend, even after so much elaboration, that they’re just attacking it for fun, rather than for very specific and well detailed reasons.

Far from it. Discovery has problems, and io9 points them out. They just can’t ever say Disco did something good without in the next sentence undercutting that good thing, or their own point. The things they disliked changed from week to week, and it just felt like the tone was always if you like this you clearly don’t…

I could see that rebuttal, except that we’ve seen that most of the characters espoused and embodied Federation ideals from the get-go. From day one the main characters (excepting Lorca)prioritized protecting the innocent and exploring new life and new civilizations. The very first scene is the lengths the Shenzhou…

There’s Michael Burnham, an officer stripped of her rank for making an awful error in judgment that flung the Federation into a bloody war.

They just love to hate this show. It can’t do anything right in their eyes. It had a lot to say and I think it said it.

When they keep retconning the characters so hard there is no way to let character drive plot in a consistent way.

A nice scene with a character that has become one of my favorites: Toni reading Jughead’s story, recognizing it as a Lovecraft homage, and realizing that he actually wrote it on a typewriter (an insane thing to do), not coincidentally because a certain blonde ponytailed someone gave him a typewriter for XMas.

Yeah, it was a big old mess.

However, while I agree with LaToya that there’s no reason why Hiram should pay Fred’s medical bills, this comment kinda lost me:

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