Discovery 3x04 - 'Forgot Me Not' **Spoilers Within**

I sound like a broken record no doubt

A Poor Episode - same complaints as last week.
Summing up - about on par with last week, but a very weak season thus far. When compared to season one (intrigued to see where the show was going), and season 2 (the sphere, the red angel, everything starting to develop), this is weakest season of discovery so far

All my opinion of course, next week looks interesting (to a point)

Much better!


SPOILERS BELOW FOR THIS EPP. We don't need spoiler tags for the episode in this thread, do we?


There was still too much standing around talking about the plot and how that makes everyone feel, but I was actually pretty invested in the rest of it.

Trill was good; proper Star Trek planet stuff. Enjoyed that. I think I like the (two) new Trill characters too.

The dinner scene was fine.

Burnham was fine. Wish they'd stop literally telling us how much she has changed and just get on with her being a better character. There did seem to be a bit of that better character on display once she got to the planet surface.

Definitely nice to be seeing more of the crew, and just having less INTENSE DISCUSSIONS and DRAMATIC STANDING.

So I've enjoyed episodes 2 and 4. Next weeks preview looked like it might annoy me again, but we'll have to wait and see.

corkie wrote: »

But I don't think people who want to watch it will read here before watching?

Yeah I'd consider these to be post-episode discussions and wouldn't open them myself until I've seen the episode. Unmasking spoiler tags in every post gets a bit annoying.

Speculation and discussion of future epsiodes should still be spoilered imo.

Quite thread today, was starting to worry we had lost people's interest in the show?

I think most are just better people and watch on Netflix tomorrow.

That's it. I'm done. I turned the episode off after Michael was the only one who could commune with Adira in the sacred pool no non Trill are allowed in. If you need to have Michael save the day in every episode stop setting up that she's the least likely person in the room to be able to do it.

Trill electro glaives are stupid too. Phasers exist and are much more effective unless you're a Klingon who can work yourself into a frenzy to shrug off a few hits.

TheValeyard wrote: »

Think we all know the rumour of who Adira actually turns to be?

No? Perhaps best to spoiler tag any reply though.

Without changing the trend of the story too much I would have been far happier if Culber had gone down to Trill. You could have had the exact same plot points, but had Culber using the symbiont pool to work through his issues (which seemed to completely disappear at the start of this season) alongside Adira. I didn't quite buy his reason for sending Michael and it would help develop the other characters that aren't called Michael.

Also, is it just me, but there was a twee soundtrack between Adira and Michael again this episode that happened last week with Adira and Stamets that I just find too much on the nose, and it irritates the hell out of me. It just seems to make the emotional beats a bit too on the nose.

TheValeyard wrote: »

Ding ding ding ding.



Not sure if it's a good idea or not.

Hasperat

Thought it was going great till CMO talked Michael into going on the away mission. Initial reaction was “here we go again... it’s all about Burnham!”

But pleasantly surprised in the end - definitely had more of a Trek feeling to it. I’m enjoying this series more than the others to be honest.

Culber talking Burnham into going down to the planet was an awful scene but once she got there it wasn't too bad. Burnham seems a lot more confident and less confused than she used to be (we know this because the dialogue explicitly and repeatedly tells us so) but mostly, despite jumping into the magic water for moral support, she was just standing around while the plot focused on Adira.

And god love her but it might have been worse if she was on the ship and in the middle of that b-story.

TheValeyard wrote: »

They really making use of those drone things this season.

I've christened them "Burn-Es" in honour of a similar repair drone seen in the Pixar movie Wall-E which got a funny short made about it. I think it's on Disney+ if you've a subscription for watching The Mandalorian.

Does Detmer have an implant? I thought something had broke in it.
She was starting to sound like she was auditioning for the boat scene in Willy Wonka.

CramCycle wrote: »

Surely that's a big design flaw if there is ever power outages etc.

Maybe but Starfleet does like to have backups for its backups. A stray torpedo would have been more dangerous but then they do have magic blast doors now.

McGiver wrote: »

A bit sentimental, but very decent episode overall.
The show is on the right track (within limits and constraints of contacts etc).

Looking forward to seeing another episode directed by Frakes. I believe this one wasn't.

Nope this episode was not directed by him. The last one was.

SouthWesterly wrote: »

Enjoyed the part on trill. Not sure what the party was about

It was not a party it was a dinner with the Captain and it was to try and give this crew of perfects some new meaning to there lifes and to except that things are not now normal as they are 932 years in the future now so all there dates like birthdays all there celebrations all the people they have ever known are gone now.

Just remembered, Michael said "milennia" instead of "milennium" for their jump forward in time. Not so perfect now, Ms Smartypants.