[CaptainCrunch]

And I kind of agree with you, but while some of the scenes were good, the phaser fights.

The writing and resolution was just fracking stupid and dumb, and once again these writers can't complete a storyline to save their lives.

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The good - The phaser fight, really well done and it looked awesome. Saru was good in the episode. Visually it was stunning

The bad - So Lorca spends all this time planning his return and over throwing the Emperor. But then he goes all puppy love over Burnham, basically becomes a two dimensional stupid blind villain. And then for a ruthless monster doesn't kill the Emperor but instead turns his back on her, we all saw his death coming from a mile away.

The predictability and the battlestar galactica-esque musical travel thing, they might as well have played all along the watch tower. The stupidity of the Emperor. She goes from an absolute ruthless Empress, that kills her staff to maintain secrecy and power, and then she after the threat of Lorca being gone doesn't turn on Michael and re-assert her rule. Come on that whole redemption thing is just lazy stupid writing. And then beaming her back, let me guess, she's going to save the federation by being the ruthless leader that they need,a and she's going to be asked to Captain the Discovery. We all know this is happening.

Frankly we spent most of the season getting to know Lorca, both evil and disguised good, and he plotted and fooled everyone and then in the end he was an idiot and worthless and while I might have cheered with him getting kicked down the well like Timmy without lassie to save him, basically this was the writers saying "frack this guy, we don't know what we're doing so see you".

The ugly - Then they find a way back and warp 9 months into the future, and surprise surprise, the war has been won by the Klingons, almost like the writers looked at their notes, shrugged at each other and said "Meh, its the only thing that we've got less". So now we're battlestar galactica where a lone Star Ship flee's the tyranny of the Cylo . . . er Klingon Empire. The problem is because the episode to me and the resolution of the Dark Empire storyline was so utterly stupid that I was hoping a Klingon Ship would show up and kill everyone.

The writers are still absolutely clueless on writing an ensemble show, there's no heft to any of the characters that weren't Suru, Michael and Stamets. You really don't care about them anymore because they're worthless cardboard cutouts, and it became even more clear when they killed the Helmswoman in the mirror universe and I said "And I should care because". In the OT when you saw Mirror Checkov and Sulu, it hit you viscerally, in this case when we saw mirror counter parts, it was like no emotion.

Look for a visual standpoint, this episode was beautiful, from an acting standpoint, Jason and Doug stood out, Michell Yeoh continues to just suck terribly and god knows we now have to have more episodes with her as a major character and her "road to redemption". Martin-Green just isn't strong enough in this role to have a major role. She's wooden and unsure and just plays the same stone faced personality. That works for short term characters, but long term characters need something to latch onto, and I found Lorca and Saru and even Staments to just be more interesting to invest in.

From an action standpoint, outstanding, loved the scenes even though the big plan by Michael and the Emperor was a karate fight which was stupid, I was like, that's their plan 1-2-3 go. Come on put some effort into the writing.

This whole episode was like watching a bad architect building a house on a lake of quicksand and then screaming, I don't understand why its sinking.

Just frustrating because I was coming around on this show strongly, and then they basically grabbed the football on a 1st and 10 on the goaline, put it on the ground and watching the other team recovering the fumble.

Side shots - Michelle Yeoh will end up leading the Resistance Ship Discovery and we'll all learn something about ourself.

Suru has evolved into the best character on the show, and that's a problem, especially since Michelle Yeoh not only is a former alien hating Empress, but also has aquired a taste for his species. I'd like to see that one leaked out.

Jason Isaac's must have been pissed reading the script of his end. What a disappointing end to an evil genius, in the end he became a stupid mustache twirling character, enamored with the Fay Wray Character.

Hopefully at the start of the episode they find out that the spore drive is done for.

Jason is an unbelievable actor, but this was a wasted role for him.

I doubt that they can redeem this show in one week, but the way they handled the Tyler story line, and then this story line is something that should get these idiot writers fired and replaced in the off season.