Discovery 4x13 - 'Coming Home' ~~ { ** Spoilers Within ** }
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Wow, I hate the characters and the forced sickly sweetness of the whole thing. It's so bloody bad. I rarely stop watching Star Trek, but honestly this just isn't worth watching anymore, and probably never was.
Sure Burnham would never get assimilated, but would somehow free everyone who had been assimilated.
And she would likely do that by injecting emotions into the collective.
I thought it was okay. There were some good moments, with the scenes of getting through to the 10cs being reminiscenct of The Motion Picture and Close Encounters of the Third Kind. And I was even briefly impressed when they offed Booker so coldly in front in Burnham like that. Sadly they lacked the spine to see it out completely. But the season only had about 3 episodes worth of actual material, stretched to 13 episodes, like butter scraped over too much bread, so it doesn't make up such a bland season.
Just not very good.
Not the worst season though to be honest. It did show some promise at times but really struggled under the weight of past mistakes and, I think, sub-par writing and performances.
The bridge crew thing was particularly egregious. I just kept thinking, who the hell was left on the ship? Some junior ensign left in command? Though presumably there are no ensigns anymore since everyone is a commander. And yeah, the only part of the previous episode that was of interest was the problem with communication. Now it's no bother. Lets communicate Ulysses through lights. It wouldn't be an issue if they hadn't spent the entire previous episode talking about how incredibly difficult it was.
Lazy, lazy writing. Just god awful.
So the punishment for what was basically treason is community service?
And the General even gets to keep her rank.
"Okay, all the bridge crew beam down so we have loads of reaction shots when the Ten-C are communicating. Hmm, do you think we should ask what their species name is?"
So last week they were communicating through math, earlier this episode they mentioned not being able to communicate something as being too complex yet by the end they were able to have a full conversation?
Well that was utterly disappointing, the end was particularly vomit inducing
An highly advanced species can't stop a small little space ship but a shuttlecraft can manage to crash into it - do the writers ever read over what they have written?
Off now to watch Picard and try and remove all memories of this season of Disco
I had a nightmare last night that the new Borg queen would be revealed to be Burnham...
I can only speak for myself but im angry that its even part of the franchise at this stage. Stakes very high in this season of Picard, yet in a few hundred years BURNHAM arrives - ugh
I PRAY we do not see a cross over - im an atheist but i will PRAY we dont.
The one slightly positive part is that they with the ending they could have wrapped up the entire series and call it a day. But they're not, so more of the same next year.
A desperate End to a poorly written and conceived Season - predictable
Its desperate IMHO - makes last season look good (which is a tall order). It dragged out for 13 episodes of nonsense, with tiny plot points, a couple of hours of absolute filler, and all the intrigue of Root Canal work.
COMPARE THIS - TO PICARD??? No comparison -
Season Finale Episode! Oh I did enjoy that!
I'm not sure who the dedication was for at the end. April isn't the easiest name to google.
April Nocifora is listed as a Producer for many of the episodes: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0744130/
It was cool to see the Ten'C. Cool to see such a new vision of life like that. It feels like their position in respect of our Galaxy is left in a grey area. I'd think a good idea would be for them to come inside the Milky Way if possible.. but maybe they want to still hang outside.
Really liked the Planetary Shields of Earth and the Mitchell coming to save the shuttle craft.
Oh! and when it dawned on me that I was watching The Federation HQ actually moving at warp speed .. I was like WOAAAAH! .. and then like.. yeah of course! 🙂
The personal story were done well and some big feels towards the end but the moment I thought they built best throughout the season long was the lead up to Book talking to the Ten'C and their response. It all just made sense.
Alright, that's a wrap. Checking the wiki for what's next and it looks like it'll be 2023:
A 10-episode fifth season was ordered in January 2022 and is expected to be released in 2023.
I said it in an earlier thread, but this entire season could have happened in a couple of episodes and worked for me. Soace stations warp now, fine. They're all actually giant lifeboats, fine. No consequences whatsoever for anyone, fine. The entire season was a complete disappointment for me, even by Discovery's standards.
