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Season 1, gritty war drama with “prestige TV” tropes galore in the first half, Mirror Universe camp in the second.
Season 2, Palate-cleansing memberberries, including a crazy supercomputer. That said, taking the lesson that everybody loved the Pike Enterprise casting and chemistry was a good thing.
Season 3, People weren’t connecting with the show… fuck it, it’s an entirely new era now. New ships, new culture, new players, new everything. Going home will not be a serious plot consideration, and frankly neither will unpacking the trauma of deciding not to do so. No need anyway, because Burnham’s mom is there, and she’s the only character that matters until S4. Also, I liked the universe that the Burn made, but (1) fuck that, we’re fixing that, and (2) the resolution felt off, very humane in its way but like a heavy-handed fable better suited to a one-hour episode’s payoff rather than a season-long arc.
Season 4: Burnham’s the captain now! All themes of working under people and the trope of the rotating captain are done now. Even Sonequa Martin-Green called it a new start.
Season 5: Okay, so they’re finally settling in, now that it’s time for the last season, which tried so hard to have a resolvable plot of the week but also furthering the “overlong movie” model of serial storytelling that so much streaming era genre stuff is obsessed with. As an aside, it’s amusing that the whole thing would have worked out better for everybody if they just let Moll “win,” since there was no way she was passing the test at the archive.
I became fond of many of the characters: Saru’s arc is awesome, Stamets and Hugh have the best relationship of any couple in ST, and Jett Reno is a treasure. It’s not that the writing was universally horrible or anything. They did an okay job dragging these characters between different tones and settings, but IMHO the whiplash is real. Overall I liked Disco, even if I could never quite love it, but I don’t think I’m coming up with anything novel by suggesting that the vision for the show was all over the place and seemed to be reactionary based on the reception of previous episodes.
If you told me they kept whatever first draft Bible he had for a five-season show and simply shoehorned a single crew into it, I’d believe you. Dominion War was kind of a left turn on DS9, as was ST:Enterprise going off to lala land beyond the barrier, but no show had to completely reinvent itself over and over like Discovery.
I would say mine are halfway between top right and top left, which, if I’m being honest, is extremely appropriate.
For the record, I also started with top center in sixth grade and did bottom left as a teenager.
What kind of board are they going in? Tall, thick-walled, and spherical doesn’t often go with shinethrough, but it can happen. On the budget end, the “QX SA” that goes by several names can be had in a translucent pudding-esque style. I reckon the blend is mostly ABS though, regardless of what the Amazon listing says.
Interesting reading:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Thomson
Wait until you get to the personal life section, Physics dorks…
His take on mid-century Major League Baseball is sort of equal parts adorable and unsettling. Other highlights of the issue: A Houston family is paid $75 to test a fallout shelter for 3 days, canned raw meat, and Chef Boy-R-Dee as mildly exotic party fare.
See page 58 (archive file pagination) for the Saul Steinberg piece.
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Strands #124
“Say something”
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Also two non-list words and one that wasn’t on the word list.
