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Infynis@midwest.social 1 year agoI appreciate the detailed analysis. For me, it seemed like we were supposed to empathize with all the horrible decisions she made at the beginning of season 1, which is what I considered her flaws that were meant to be endearing. I’m glad to hear that’s not the case. I never made it that far; I was at the point where they had to take a bunch of snapshots of the Klingon ship, maybe a bit further, but it’s been a while…
She did have special powers though. In that regard, I was talking about her telepathic connection with her and Spock’s dad, which kind of felt like it came out of nowhere.
As long as I’m not actually supposed to like her in the beginning, I think it’ll be worth giving Discovery another shot. With how good SNW and Lower Decks have been, plus what I’ve heard about Picard s3 (though I haven’t seen it yet, because I’m doing a TNG rewatch first), I’m hopeful
Stamets@startrek.website 1 year ago
You are supposed to empathize with her to an extent, but not fully. She fucked up and she owns it and you’re supposed to at least connect with the idea of making mistakes. Season 1 is extremely rough but then again so was every other Trek that came before. Season 2 got better but it wasn’t until Season 3 that things started to find its footing. A lot of people hate the answer as to the season long mystery of 3 but again I genuinely don’t get why.
I will say though, she did not have those special powers, it was Sarek. She can’t do that with anyone else or even initiate it with Sarek. Sarek has to be the one to do it.
I mean, it doesn’t seem like you’re supposed to like her to me. She’s unbearable at the start. Smug and arrogant and frankly a shitty person. But she has a lot of growth of season 1 and that only continues on.