OLynn33

My heart breaks for Jeremiah. Everyone else has family with them. Parental love and support should not come with conditions. Jeremiah and Alejandro imo are on a whole other level musically. So talented both of them.

Intrigued enough that I'm in for the duration. Carpenter is actually new to me and I find her compelling as is her character. I at least hope we find out more about how an agent of such obvious skill allowed herself and thus her daughter to become compromised. How was Tal able to get to her? Even if it's only human fallibility, I'm always up for it. Also, safe to assume Erica has never watched Alias. Had she, I'm pretty sure she would have rethought the whole it's preferable to let my daughter grow up thinking her mother is a traitor thing. It was mentioned upthread that they recast the daughter so at least I'm not seeing things. Good scene when the two met btw and necessary. All I could think of during the pilot was how angry her daughter must be. Equally liked the moment where Erica protected Keaton. The deft of her move certainly suggests she's done more than just sit behind a desk which I look forward to discovering. One minor request please, as much as Carpenter is great here, enough with the perp walks. We get it.

Also a more believable character. Even though I suspected Lorca was MU I expected more grey. I bought into the idea that this was a complex man, a soldier who had been through some stuff, a wartime Captain and not your typical Starfleet Captain because that's what I was sold. I was led to believe this was a human story over 12 episodes, then suddenly it became a political one. For me now to accept that this caricature from the last episode was the same man I had grown to understand and like and that he was able to sustain the facade of Captain Lorca is too much of a stretch and it devalues for me previous episodes and scenes. One of my favourite scenes of the series was Lorca and the Admiral and what I call the Officer and A Gentleman moment where he pleads with her not to take his ship away because it's all he has. When Lorca isn't too distressed at leaving Cornwell with the Klingons it isn't because he's eeeevil Lorca it's because she threatened the one thing that meant anything to him. I also had really grown to like the Lorca/ Burnham dynamic and how he had grown to trust her. I liked the idea that this man on his own redemption arc had started her on hers because he saw in her the qualities he admired and perhaps he saw that she could become in time what he had once been. Another scene I liked was from the Wolf Inside where Burnham pleads with Lorca not to make her kill the rebels because she's Starfleet and that's not what they do. When he responds with 'sometimes the end justifies terrible means" again it isn't because he's eeevvvvil Lorca it's because he is only ever focused on the big picture which is winning the war. This relationship now is of course forever tainted so count me in with the very disappointed crowd on the waste of this character. I was loving StarTrek Discovery, and there are aspects and moments that are outstanding like Saru's speech, but this episode cut deep for me and it will sting for a long time.

I like this show. I hope it survives. I was surprised that no one on the team thought the daughter could be a target and they left her to be protected by the babysitter. But whatever, I rarely get hung up on the semantics of plot. For me too it’s all about the characters and there have been moments where this show has been good like the scenes that have closed the last two episodes. Not that there haven’t been missed opportunities though. When Christina gets shot and is out of bed like nothing happened this bugs for its lack of realism as mentioned earlier for sure but it’s also a missed opportunity in terms of character reveal. When she goes to interrogate the bad guys show her wincing at least as she sits down. She’s injured, she’s in pain, but the job comes first like it always does over any of her discomfort. Oh and also, note to Bryan who was watching her, she’s badass. Would have been a nice nod as well to the closing scene in the following episode where she has to ask her dead friend’s husband to be her emergency contact because she doesn’t have any family or friends to ask. Imagine that, at this point in her life. The job has come first. I liked the moment in this episode where Christina says to Riley “ you remember what I told you about over investing emotionally?" At one point it’s safe to assume Christina would have been Riley, but over time and the job or perhaps a specific incident Christina has learned to detach herself emotionally no doubt through necessity. However, watch for these words to come back to haunt her would be my bet. At any rate, anyone who can rock the stone cold stare like Christina has my attention. I want to know her backstory.