I can’t agree.

Agree. Zack is my favorite Discovery reviewer. He knows Michael and Killy are the writer’s biggest weakness - I just wish someone would give them the Season 1 to Season 2 reboot treatment Legends of Tomorrow had.

Actually the vulture reviews are pretty on point, sometimes even sharper in their crits than Zack. 

“This is all cover, no book.”  This is EXACTLY it!  And it’s been like that for three seasons, despite all the changes in staff.

The writing in DISCO isn’t as smart as TNG or DS9.

The whole thing makes no sense. People still use dilithium for ftl travel after the burn. You’d think more people would have tried to find out about the burn at least to learn if it could happen again. Even criminals and pirates would be interested since so much of their power depend on control of dilithium.

This episode highlighted a few things for me:

Michael: “Did my crew and I risk our lives in the past to save all sentient life in the universe”

Honestly thought South Park took far more of a stand this week then it’s usual nihilistic “both sides” debates.

It’s the difference between cool-looking nonsense like Legion and a surrealist masterpiece like Twin Peaks or The Leftovers. Guess we’ll have to see which is which.

All I kept thinking about is all those people quarantined on cruise ships due to COVID19 and how some incredibly stupid mutiny like this could happen

What better commentary than to take a genre full of inspiring promise (sci fi) and apply modern Anglo-American socio-political banality and entitled stupidity... of course it’s a cruise ship surrounded by bodies and gorgeous feces and not a multi-national exploration vehicle with a cool prime directive.

‘This show is more like a speculative documentary. It’s where Veep led us in 40yrs time. I buy every frame of it’

Alison Pill is Canadian.

Tell that to all the grown men who are still crying actual tears about Luke Skywalker in The Last Jedi.

At this point it’s like Euron’s stealth teleporting fleet. You just have to go with it.

(part of what makes Bronn such a compelling character is the realization he could go either way)

I’d add Babylon 5 to your point 3. If for no other reason than it handled people’s reaction to a character coming back from the dead properly (surprise, wonder and a lot of suspicion, mainly).

I preferred how TOS dealt with people dying. These people are in space, people die all the time. They’re used to it. Like, this show made a bigger deal of this funeral than Star Trek 2 made of Spock’s funeral. I guess maybe that’s because people care about Spock and don’t need to be told they should care by other…

That last email is the one you should have sent first, and it’s a shame you had to let Bret Fucking Stephens hand you your ass before you realized that.