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Harris is WORSE than teenaged Darlene. At least teenaged Darlene was funny.

So this "I let you go" stuff doesn't sit right with me. It's only been a year. A year is not that long when you're young. Not long enough to get to the mental place she says she's at, especially since she hadn't given up. She's been laser focused on finding some sign of them for a relatively short period of time, she may have been thinking she might never find them, but in one year, with so much energy focused on the goal, there's just no way she would have been able to simultaneously go through a grieving process that would get her to "I let you go." For that she'd have to be one or more of older, with significantly more of her life behind than ahead of her less focused on the goal, and truly forging a new life separated a LOT longer than a year I understand the story they want to tell, and that it couldn't be so long they'd have to start using age makeup on her going forward, but psychologically it's just not something that would happen the way they say it has to this particular character. Re: Detmer - while I'm sure this happens in real life, it's too vague and ambiguous to be a television plot point. I think something specific is happening here, and this initial confused state will evolve into something more menacing. Re: Grudge - I had the same thought! If he's not allowed on the ship, who's going to feed the cat? Re: Adira - I'm a little confused about why she has the Tal symbiont. The admiral (Senna) was supposed to have died 2 years after leaving Earth, but Tal is on Earth. So the symbiont must have been removed from Senna before he died and transferred to Adira, who would have been only 14 years old (assuming the transfer happened just before Senna left Earth). Why? Was Tal rejecting the symbiont? Was a 14-year-old human really the best available option? I guess we'll find out more next week, but right now I'm wondering about it. Or am I getting some of the details wrong? Or to give him the opportunity to appear to betray them for their dilithium.

Another story that didn't need the "soulmate" angle at all. Could have easily been told on any other show. And in less time. I like Bill Skaarsgard but he seems to be more compelling as a weirdo/alien/monster than just a neurotypical human being. Or maybe comedy isn't his thing?

My take was that it was a commentary on radicalization. How a young person who is decent but lonely and isolated can be perverted by people exploiting some fear, and how that can ultimately lead them to dehumanization and violence. I suspect the end sequence with Nick shooting a shadow with his lightgun was a fantasy overlay and what really happened is him shooting his mom with a real gun (hence the sound of the light gun supplanted with the sound of real gunfire). Presumably after that he went out into the world, perhaps to the school, and eventually got himself killed by the cops.

This was my take on it as well. Either of those options could work. But I don't think she literally became human.

Well those last couple of minutes were nice.

That's just it, it was too quick. I think she was focused solely on the surface injury and macro-level brain damage (of which there was clearly none). If I were Detmer I'd go back to sickbay and say "look guys, something's not right, can you please take a look?" Now that you mention it, that sounds familiar to me too. Although I suppose it could just be the power of suggestion. ETA: a theory, one which makes a lot of sense to me https://www.gamesradar.com/star-trek-discovery-season-3-detmer-theory/

I love Tig Notaro, she's hilarious. But she seems out of place to me here. Every time she opens her mouth I'm pulled out of the show and onto her stand-up stage. I wonder if I'd feel the same if she were not already familiar to me. Oh Detmer, will you just tell someone you don't feel well? Why do TV characters do this stuff? In real life, we'd all be like, "Man ever since we crashed I have not been right. Hey doc, could you run a scan or something?" They just need Culber to not find anything and let her go on her merry way and we could still have the same story without the character being stupid.

I refreshed my memory on Season 2's mafia, and they appear to be neither Italian nor African-American. In fact, Brad Garrett's boss was reluctant to let a black man (Mike) run an operation. Going strictly by character names (admittedly a weak indicator, Milligan being a case in point), it may not even be Jewish at this point. So it looks like a whole other faction by the 70s maybe?

Is this show based on a book, like a collection of short stories? Are the stories connected? I hope not because my local station seems to be showing them out of order. Episode 5 was first, then 1, then this one. Haven't seen #2 yet.

I thought it had a nice open ending. I got the feeling that, for the sake of her daughter, she would not be going back down to the basement.

OK Michael needs a steady supply of that stuff, because I can tolerate her when she's not brooding. I don't think I mind her being the saviour of the universe if she's funny doing it. I wonder if the show will alternate episodes between Michael and Book one week, and the rest of the Discovery crew the next. I hope it's not too long before we see Saru and the team again. So is the objective of this season to bring the far flung reaches of Starfleet (and by extension the Federation) together again?

Evergreen statement.

Which is, I think, unethical. The nepotism I mean.

That's Edge of Forever, there, Redshirt 😉 The obvious answer for why people go back in time to just before shit gets real is for the drama, but if I were to try to handwave a physics reason for it, I'd say that the energy surrounding a major historical event (Tulsa, Pompeii, Kennedy assassination, etc.) draws the time eddies towards it. Obviously doesn't apply to quiet, personal situations but whatevs. The speech during the burning, and the song during Leti's walk, were the same passage. One spoken and one sung. But I don't know the piece and I don't know if the poetry preceded the song lyric or vice versa. Oh I guess it was a poem first. https://furiousflower.org/catch-the-fire-by-sonia-sanchez/ And inspired the show's soundtrack composer to write the song at the end. https://www.newsweek.com/lovecraft-country-catch-fire-song-sonia-sanchez-hbo-1538228

The execution scene was really emotional. I kept hoping Owen would bring the gang back in time, since even he stated they "had to do something about this hanging", but alas they were too late.

Sam was on the dock. Didn't their eyes meet at the end of the episode?

Yeah the Soulmates connection was very tenuous. Just an entry point to a story that could have been told in any other show.

Is this the shadowy figure we saw in the street when Oraetta came back from delivering the pie? Is it perhaps following the fugitives? We've had dead people narrate stories before. I won't mention the most obvious example, for those yet to see it (always new generations discovering old material), but I imagine quite a few of you know what movie I'm referencing.

The series ended with a whimper, sadly. "Generations" had nothing new to say.

There's a natural comparison to "Person of Interest." Of course in that show, they needed a good AI to fight the evil AI. They couldn't do it on their own.

This.

The Babby one was really good. I've said it before, honest human dramas are this show's strengths. If only they would do more of these.

He was almost out of there. Hard to feel sorry for him now. Although to be fair, he's clearly being expertly manipulated.

So yeah, this last one, with the two guys fighting and singing through time, might have been the worst of the season.