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Star Trek: DiscoveryThe second season of the season is, for better or for worse, the perfect dressing table of the season. He is panting and heavy with action; he delivers powerful beats of character; it is full of totally disconcerting decisions; it looks incredible; and he goes out of his way to appease the canon of the original series. And even if he does not fully satisfy himself, he makes bold promises for a future whose possibilities seem endless.
After last week's litany of emotional farewells, Discovery makes room for this second part of the final to be all the action, all the time, and it certainly will not disappoint. Most of the episode is occupied by a huge space battle that feels more Star wars or Battlestar Galactica than hikingcounter-attacking Section 31 drones controlled by the IA Discovery, Business, and a phalanx of armed shuttles and workmen's pods that frankly even Star Trek: TravelingThe unrealistic and hearty shuttle complement is derisory. It's visually very exciting, but it's not the kind of tactical brilliance that we (read: I) want from our (read: my) Star Trek. Saru studied Sun Tsu; he surely could have pulled out something other than a beautiful speech.
Even the arrival of a combined fleet of Klingon and Kelpien, encouraged by Ash Tyler (who took off in the middle of the preparation of the battle last week, and whose speed in this case makes false the disruption of communications at two voices), to the fight. While it's great to see The Rell in Battle Commander mode, and Saru's sister is helping her brother, but there's still a lot of emotional beating, but it's still more ships in a battle with many ships.
Naturally, the two "hero" ships suffer considerable difficulties in this essentially unequal fight, many stuntmen being thrown around sets and many pyrotechnics exploding on these sets. Stamets is seriously injured, which caused a touching meeting, even if she was not motivated, with Culber, who decided that Paul was his home and would not be transferred to Business after all. I do not remember what made him change his mind. this scene sounds less true than the quarrel surprisingly well observed between them.
Among the most stupid intrigues of this episode, there is an untrimmed photon torpedo that fits into BusinessShell. It's stupid in its very concept, but even more so in its effect on the story – as the crew seeks to disarm it, it becomes clear that the torpedo will be used as a means of deception. eliminate an actor, and it is only one of which. At one point, it seems that the number one will be eliminated (which would be a pity). Then, it seems that Captain Pike will bite him (which would spoil continuity). In the end, the spell goes to Admiral Cornwell, who ran well and who, just before his death, closes an anti-blast door that seems to be able to resist a point-blank detonation by a photon torpedo, while the bow of the ship can not.
All this is in the service of one thing: protecting Michael Burnham while she jumps into a new combination of time travel and disappears Discovery in the future and away from AI Rogue control. The silliest part of this thread comes to the top, while engineers run to build the suit before the ship is destroyed and a fleet of shuttles forms a protective cocoon around her while that She flies in space. It looks cool; it does not make sense. Once Burnham reaches, with little protection, the little space she uses as an operating platform, she spends a good time with Spock where the two adopted brothers attribute their personal growth to their brother and sister. Unfortunately, this was offset by a colossal moaning resolution to the mystery of the "Seven Signals", in which each was defined by Burnham to bring Discovery to the elements he needed to survive this battle. This type of temporal causality loop is annoying in travel stories over time, and this is no exception – no matter how complex the effect sequences are.
Meanwhile, the former captain and drone of IA Leland manages to teleport aboard Discovery, causing a series of fight sequences between him, Georgiou and Commander Nhan. The series had to deal with Leland one way or another, and given the excitement of his end-of-season bow, it makes sense that it's done with punches. In previous episodes, allusions to the fact that it would be a sort of Borg progenitor appeared to be herring red; It is more of a human body manipulated by a gray substance than a cyborg. Even if a fight in a gravity-altered corridor is an impressive centerpiece (even if it's too long and too taken with its own impressive impression), all this turns to the head in the spore chamber, where Georgiou bursting with joy as she pulls Leland's booty beautifully beautifully. Shame to control for the use of magnetic materials.
Despite the elimination of Leland / Control (on board Discovery, no less) rendering the Section 31 Fleet lifeless and mission time-travel useless, Michael still opens the wormhole and Discovery pulls through. It's a beautiful sequence, as characters from the battle watch with wonder the ship merge into a large bright space, and the crew on board look wide eyed as he travels 930 years into the future. At the end of the episode, Discovery left; we do not see him or his crew once they've gone through this wormhole. Who knows what will happen to them?
The last minutes of the episode are the most curious, following the crew of the Business. In accordance with the mission of this season to conform the show to Star Trek cannon, Spock creates a Starfleet directive in which no one will ever talk about Discovery, the spore reader or the crew, while Sarek and Amanda Grayson swear never to talk about their adoptive daughter to strangers. In what is expected to be Starfleet's fastest promotion, Ash Tyler is appointed to head Section 31, which will benefit from a radical overhaul and greater transparency, which will also help make this division less openly naughty. . Then, in the last moments, we return to a well shaved Spock, more comfortable in his skin, boarding a repaired vehicle. Business and go on new adventures with Captain Pike, Number One and others.
Oddly enough, "Such Sweet Sorrow, Part II" looks like the installation of three completely different people. Star Trek series. There is Discovery, pulled a millennium into a future where no Star Trek show (except one Short Trek) has already pbaded – a truly exciting prospect for a franchise that is sometimes constrained by a continuity puzzle that challenges itself. The reformed section 31 of Ash Tyler and Philippa Georgiou, which, as we know, will be a full-fledged show (and which, fortunately, will be rid of Leland bullshit). And the most painfully tempting of all, there is Captain Pike Business, starting for a new mission much like the Star Treks old. To our knowledge, this third series does not take place, although, given the strength of the three main members of the cast (Mount, Peck and Romijn), the staging quite serious undertaking for Businessand the way the episode ends, it's tempting to believe it. CBS stated that its presence in Discovery was a case of a season, and the end works as a button on their involvement. But if?
And if, indeed. The future is wide open for Star Trek, with several new shows on the horizon. It almost makes me forget how stupid the majority of this finale was. Now that it seems to be moving towards new frontiers, I am excited – perhaps stupidly – by my new favorite franchise around the world.
Observations lost:
- Georgiou, getting the best sentences as usual: describing Leland as an "AI sausage" and telling him "everyone hates you – congratulations".
- Enterprise has repair droids that look like something WALL-Eand I hate them.
- Reno says she can not violate the laws of physics, which makes me want her even more as a regular cast member.
- Discard Business in a supporting role in the battle is very moving – we are so accustomed to it being the center of attention, the flag bearer, that the mission seems all the more important.
- Film technique of the week that attracts attention: split-screen editing, three modes, with red dividers.
- The team's effects are really surpbaded in this episode. Tons of effects plans, almost all superb, although their purpose is often not the case.
- Having learned Klingon for "today is a good day to die" for a stand-up game once, I had the pleasure of recognizing this sentence without reading the subtitles.
- Nhan is perhaps the most sadistic security officer of all time on a Starfleet ship. He answers "yum yum" to the prospect of making Leland scream.
- It's the end of season 2! It's been a crazy race, with highs, lows and lots of weird shit bading in between. Until next year (and beyond, hopefully), live long and prosper.
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