[CaptainCrunch]

I'm torn

Spoiler!

There were some aspects of this finale that I did like. It was ernest and it had a lot of action, and frankly Doug Jones as Saru is a real strength in this show when they don't make him the worst Captain in the Federation.

The problem is two fold. First of all the writers seem to be determined to throw everything at the wall at a break neck pace, and by doing that, it feels like they lose track of key story elements. The second element is that they went so long with really making everyone other then Michael, and Tilly and Saru and maybe Stamets that when they hint at their end you're like, I'm not really connected to this character so whatever.

At the end of this episode, there was really no sacrifice, I never felt tension or fear, I knew that Michael would prevail and over come everything with no real help. Its the great flaw of Discovery in that its a fairly pretty package, but what's inside just isn't interesting.

Even the Villains at the end Osyras and the Pirate King didn't feel like they were a threat of lived up to the challenge. When she was basically shot, I felt more empathy for the data cubes that Michael puked up then with her, when the Pirate king fell and bounced off of the elevator I didn't really feel that emotional fist pump that you usually feel when the villain dies.

As far as disconnected bits, they built up the Sphere droids to take back the ship, and in the first battle you see them getting shot to pieces, and while the last one saved the arm chair of the bridge from being blowed up and died, you just don't feel it. With Stamets, they have him in two scenes, so everything that was built up with him in the last episode went in the, meh that wasn't important bin.

Really the best part of the whole episode wasn't Michael or the battle scenes, but Saru simply having a conversation with SaGul or whatever his name was.

Like I said there were really things to like here, but without pacing, or actual story, or a credible story line (The Burn will go down as one of the worst long term stories in Star Trek history to me). The series and the episode itself will always be mediocre at best.

With the shows track record of good first half and a major falling off in quality in the second half through its first three seasons it makes you feel a bit vexed about any kind of time investment.

Random thoughts

So is Gray a force ghost, a new version of the Great Gazoo? I don't know its just a strange concept

So going outside of the holo deck and you get insta sick from radiation, but this is forgotten later when the holo deck is turned off.

I knew that they were going to make Michael the Captain, but they bludgeoned us over the head with the Cringeworthy Tilly going "We need you to lead us, that's an order" At that I mentally could see the brick leaving my hand and going through the TV. Tilly is just a flat un interesting milquetoast character, and her ascention to First Officer and Captain was plainly done for the conclusion that nobody could be Captain but Michael.

So they're running out of O2 in minutes and have time to have a lengthy yak session, followed by a Tilly pep talk, and later armchair runs out of oxygen just as she goes to plant the bomb. I literally laughed out loud at that bit of stupidity. Then later they have a 4 minute conference on the bridge as the enemy is blazing away at them. That to me is just bad writing because its fracking annoying.

"Lets Fly" that's the new catchphrase, The only thing that would have been worse was if the Catch Phrase was "Hippity Hoppity".

So now the discover goes from a science vessel to allied Van Lines. I would assume that they're going to try a more episodic approach next year as they cargo haul fuel from world to world.