[CaptainCrunch]

After three what I would class as pretty bad episodes, it seems like we've run into what haunted the show last season.

Spoiler!

Last years fairly decent start and interesting premise fell apart on the porch of bad writing, and inconsistent characters.

It seems that this has happened this year as I watched what I would classify as a messy and unsatisfying episode to follow three poorly written episodes.

It appears that the Burn, an interesting premise was cause by a scared child that got upset and yelled, and thanks to living on a dilithium planet with weird radiation that causes a genetic anomaly caused the burn. I mean to me they just made the burn underwhelming and dumb.

Also I would assume that the ending of the season is pretty easy to read, they tame the wild Kelpian and mine the planet.

They had to hammer us over the head with the Tilley is a competant captain because of sarcasm, and that Osyraa is a mean girl with barbed comments who steals the ship out from under Tilly.

I laughed when Michael was talking to Booker about Saru being too emotionally compromised to make the right command decisions. WTF, the last person that should be saying that is her. And it just feels like they're angling towards Captain Michael.

Once again we had to have Michael as the brains of the group when Saru tells her to stay behind, and she disagrees and tells him that he should stay behind because he's the same species as the Burn god, I mean does that really matter. It just makes Saru look even lamer as the Captain.

I was enjoying this season until the episode on Bookers planet (Mess) and then the really poorly done Mirror Universe goodbye Phillipa episode. But this episode was a mess on all levels, and on top of it took the overarching reason for the season, the burn and reduced it to a temper tantrum by a Child.

On a plus note, the effects were nicely done.

Aidra and her force ghost boyfriend are talking again,

Tilly threatening to blow up the ship, really? After all of the crew pumping her up on how she'll be a good captain, I did laugh at that one.

They left the cliffhanger of Book and Michael stuck in the radiation environment, while Saru and the doctor and Aidra are slowly dying of radiation poisoning, and we're one dropped glass away from another burn.


One last thought. the reason why the writing seems so bad is because I think the writers do a lot of meth and need to pack their episode frull of 8 million thinks all moving at breakneck speed, and colliding like a bad Fast and Furious knockoff TV show. This episode was a prime example of that with two major story lines and at least two other story lines all happening at the same time and colliding like drunken pinballs.