Star Trek Discovery: The Bryan Fuller TV reboot

Ashhole amirite?

It's a little unnerving to see out of all the spinoffs, Enterprise is the one that is being mined for the most material to weave canon out of. Maybe we'll get to see evil Porthos cameo.

Maybe WE'RE the ones in the mirror universe.

no midriff mirror universe uniforms yet so may it’s changed over there

It's nice to see Frakes directed this, IMHO his is the first Trek name to have been associated with a good series.

Oops, forgot Nick Meyer.

he went a little overboard on the camera-circling-everyone thing

The camera NEVER STOPPED

Static locked down shots don’t exist anymore

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DpHbLewg79c

I know the agony booths were in TOS, but the lingering over Lorca's pain felt like another example of the show's being EXTREME and EDGY and GRIMDARK. File it with the most painful way to suicide bomb, the most painful possible gun disintegration, and the warp engine booth that tortures the occupant.

Similar to a comment made in the RLM vid on Abrams’ approach to the ‘09 reboot. Everything must be HYPERCHARGED.

I’m curious how a TOS/Constitution-class ship looks rendered in the particular art direction of this show, esp with the lighting.

Here’s what it looked like 15 years ago:

http://www.treksinscifi.com/trekdaily/pictures/2010-04-23_Defiant.jpg

the lingering over Lorca's pain felt like another example of the show's being EXTREME and EDGY and GRIMDARK

Yeah, you'd think that the show would've outgrown its Oedipal impulses by now, but maybe they feel that a midseason premiere required them to reassert the GRIMDARK.

Similar to a comment made in the RLM vid on Abrams’ approach to the ‘09 reboot. Everything must be HYPERCHARGED.

I think with JJ, he may have been overcompensating because he wasn't that familiar with Trek prior to getting the franchise.

Next step in L'Rell's master plan: get Burnham's answers to her security questions.

some viewers were upset that the asian captain gets killed/the black woman gets court martialed/the female admiral gets tortured/the gay guy gets killed*/etc., so it seems only fair that the white guy gets a little agony booth

he does have the pre-existing messed up vision. definitely a problem in the terran empire, where insurance is absolutely brutal

I’m curious how a TOS/Constitution-class ship looks rendered in the particular art direction of this show, esp with the lighting.

maybe aztec'd like this:
http://deg3d.biz/posts/deg3D_NCC-1701_112.jpg

and lit like this:
http://deg3d.biz/desktops_art_SOMS.html

whoops:
http://deg3d.biz/images/deg3D_TOS.5_E_SOMS_1956.jpg

There was a 3d wireframe of one on the show this week that had a kink in the engine struts, but otherwise looked similar.

https://imgur.com/a/zc0K1

guh

https://i.imgur.com/jKQCGnV.jpg

Yeah, thats what made me think of it. Every other ship in the show is “darkshiney” as it were, so I’m wondering what they’ll do to the usual battleship grey exterior

So I guess everyone who predicted the Ash thing was right eh?

(awesome episode btw)

Sarek was right there! How could have scanned the dude after he freaked out!

Yeah that occurred to me as well! But I guess there was more urgent "hey dont kill us" standoff going on.

a mind meld can be dangerous

I honestly didnt see the 'how they got the data' trick coming at all either, so that pleased me a lot.

I think generally a mind meld is pretty risky if the other party isn’t willing, so it’d be a bad idea

Spock was pretty cavalier about melding with anything that moves.

first mind meld episode had it be dangerous. afterwards they did it willy nilly.

Willy nilly...Tilly...Killy?! This is a clue!

Best episode yet. Hopefully a sign of whatever shift the show underwent.

I wonder if there were a bunch of Klingon segments planned for each episode that they just cut out.

i'm such a newbie trekkie that i didn't realize that the depiction of the empire was canon. i thought it was something disco came up with. welp, off to watch the two ENT episodes i skipped

In my head Yesterday's Enterprise is a mirror universe episode, I only just realised it's a regular old parallel universe

they have some common structure, the biggest reveal is "so who is the Emperor THIS time?"

Man, I thought this episode was kind of a dud. None of the people who were supposed to be menacing or dangerous came off that way. Also, the episode felt overburdened with Burnham (overburnhamed?) -- I actually got tired of hearing SMG's voice, especially when she was playing Evil Mirror her.

I thought that two SF guards would still be easy for a Klingon-reduced-to-a-human to overpower.

Faceless Emperor didn't stay faceless for long!

Was Burnham's original plan on the rebel planet to stick around for the hour to make sure that they were able to evac, under the guise that she's still infiltrating, then explain that when Ashhole got activated, they couldn't stay on the surface any longer and HAD to return to the Shengzhou. Did they just not mention it onscreen? That would've made a lot more sense than just beaming out and hoping that she'd be able to keep her crew from firing on the planet. Though I guess that would've meant that Burnham and Tyler would've been smoked when Faceless Emperor swoops in and razes the planet.

I'm glad that Stamets at some level gets to be coherent again -- I was worried that Anthony Rapp would spend a lot more time being semi-catatonic.

I'll admit to being tickled by Sarek's goatee.

I mean, uh, you know what I mean.

This episode had a twist that some people had guessed, but it was never a sure thing like v=a. The show's been playing the long game, with dumb shit from early episodes starting to pay off.

I do complain that they revealed the twist as soon as the clues were all in place. They could have stretched that out.

I've tired of shows that have held plot twists just out of reach until they're just a disappointment when all the cards hit the table

get that shit out there, make the characters and the shows writers deal with it all constructively, imo

It would be an interesting meta-twist if it turns out the entire series is meant to be an alternate or redundant timeline, meaning the writers had total narrative freedom the entire time.

The twist wouldn't have to be a multi-episode stretch. A commercial break would have been enough.

Yeah, liked this twist. The A=V one was kind of botched because some guy guessed it after about two episodes and it was all over the internet and then they basically spelled it out to viewers anyway before the big (messy) reveal.

This one was more of a straight up shock and we now have three episodes left for it to play out.

I completely blanked yesterday when I wrote that previous comment. I only saw this week's episode last night after writing it, and I'll still stand by it, but I give the show credit for setting up a more-obvious twist (fake actor name, telltale signs and flashbacks) masking a more subtle one that was right in front of our faces the whole time, then just dropping that bomb in one episode

that is, I think they "botched" it in such a way that everyone would talk about that twist even though it's a red herring

I could do with to the show never having a Shyamalanesque twist in to the first place.

Yeah, to paraphrase something FilmCritHulk wrote, clarity is far more effective than this mystery box/twisty bullshit

Good twist IMO - wasn't expecting it at all - even though Fringe pulled almost exactly the same twist about five years ago.

I like how Yeoh is turning into Disovery's Shatner - wooden delivery, huge charisma.

john noble would be a good trek guest star