Iām kind of surprised everyone missed one epoch changing moment in this weeks episode.
The first ever Gay Kiss.
Now about Mid Season Breaks.
Next weekend it will be Thanksgiving. So every traditional TV show will be pulling out the BIG EVENTS.
Then every show on US TV runs intgo Christmas and Holiday Season and audiences tend to only watch stuff with Santa and shit.
Finally, they were pushing the envelope all the way and filming was delayed. However the CBS All Access Pass is their game changing platform entry into streaming - which EVERY other studio is now doing. They had to hit release date which was already delayed.
Simple fact is that they only finished filming about 3 weeks ago and the VFX/CGI crew simply arenāt ready to release the completed new episodes yet.
I honestly donāt know why you find the relationships so troublesome. All of them are serving the narrative in better ways than not doing them would. We care more about Stamets because we also care about Culver. We know the Tyler=Voq thing will hit even harder because Burnham thinks so much of him. Cornwellās relationship with Lorca has already provided crucial clues about his background that couldnāt have been gotten at any other way.
Besides, the older Trek was far more unrealistic in this regard. People not wanting to shag the only other people for light years around. Whatās up with that?
Iām with you on the other relationships, but the instant love match forced on us(together every mission) is just shit. Isnāt she part Klingon? Are they normally impetuous?
Was he an after thought, because someone had an idea(voq relationship maybe) and they wanted to work it in? Thatās how it looks. Think back, he was a prisoner being tortured and the next day heās fucking security chief of not just a starship, but the most important one, going on every mission, whilst failing in love.
I would kill him off as quick as they can, but they wonāt, theyāll take the lazy option.
Forget love boat, itāll end up more, Jeremy Kyle in space.
Burnham is human, but was raised on Vulcan after being adopted by Sarek at the age of ten. Lorca owed his escape to Tyler, saw how handy he was and absent a security officer after the death of Landry, put him in that spot. The show itself has questioned this decision, along with the decision to appoint Burnham in any capacity whatsoever. Both are Lorcaās calls, and to me, the relationship is completely natural within the context. Apart from Lorca, Tyler was literally the only person to talk to Burnham that doesnāt have to. She lives with Tilly, and works with all the other characters. He sought her out. Add that to Lorcaās appraisal, their respective skills (she did kill TāKuvma) itās not a stretch that they get put on missions together.
Iām with the Internet on this one. Tyler is Voq, and the minute he is, his fascination with Burnham is all the more explainable. For the record, I donāt think he knows heās Voq, but heās starting to work it out.
Another thing Iām with the Internet on is Lorca being from the Mirror Universe. The original Lorca went down with his ship. This one is a replacement, which is why he knows about alternate universes, why he deliberately fucked Stamets up to get there, why Cornwell thinks āheās like a different personā and why he has this inexplicable connection to Burnham. He probably knows her counterpart in the Mirror Universe.
He is not a Federation officer. If heās an officer of any stripe, heās working for the Terran Empire, and if that turns out to be the case, itās just going to put the icing on the cake on what is the finest nine-episode run of Trek ever, justifying both the serialised nature of the show and the character decisions it has made.
Iāll try not to spoil too much, but the benefits of planning a whole season, as opposed to a series of individual episodes. Last nightās episode was a joy to watch in itself. Itāll be easy to be accused of hyperbole, but again, itās some of the best Trek Iāve ever seen. Itās the planning that really impresses.
Iām listening to Permanent RCRDās Trek podcast at the moment. I recommend it highly, because they nail just exactly how clever this show has been in terms of plotting and foreshadowing. āCaptainā Tilly has been a thing throughout, ever since she stated her ambition to be one, and being called āCaptainā by Stamets after one of his tardigrade trips. I guess we have an idea of where his mind went now.
The boys on the podcast talk about how well the theme of duality has been nurtured all along; the opening episode was called āThe Battle of the Binary Starsā, Tylerās got a duality all of his own, youāve Lorca, the most unStarfleet Captain ever to have existed (this episode does fuck all to refute the theory that he is Mirror Lorca) and then youāve got the conflict between the values of Starfleet and the Federation and the things it is prepared to do in its name for its survival. Mirror Lorca probably doesnāt help.
Standalone, itās one of the best Trek episodes I have ever seen. Considered in context, both in this show, and the way it seems to be tying up with Star Trek: Enterprise canon, and itās fucking magnificent.
Agree with mostly all that, didnāt really watch enterprise so canāt comment how it ties in so Iāll take your word. Iām looking forward to meeting mirror Burnham as I will surely like that one if she is the opposite to the one we have.