caught up with star trek: disco, and making Tilly the new XO is a hilariously on-brand move for this show & its crew. it's DSC's equivalent of Harry Kim not getting a promotion in 7 years.
Tilly: but captain, i'm basically an intern! i don't have the experience or qualifications to be second in command!
me: correct.
Saru: Tilly, you underestimate yourself. you survived a one-way trio through a wormhole!
me: SO DID EVERYONE ELSE.
me: correct.
Saru: Tilly, you underestimate yourself. you survived a one-way trio through a wormhole!
me: SO DID EVERYONE ELSE.
i like Tilly! but CLEARLY they promoted her because she's the only available character with main-cast billing. narratively speaking, it only makes sense if Saru (very unprofessionally!) just promoted his personal confidante because he doesn't have any other friends on the crew.
it's also v amusing to hear all these impassioned speeches about How Much Michael Burnham Has Changed, when she's still repeating the exact same mistakes as in episode 1: disobeying orders due to her terminal case of Protagonist Syndrome.
star trek discovery has a lot of Voyager energy, and we must simply accept this & move on.
obviously i loved it when michael banged a big ol gong & invoked her right to do some ancient vulcan ceremony. LOVE to see shit get invoked.
star trek discovery was like, "what if brexit negotiations were a cross between an academic viva and an episode of the jerry springer show?"
georgiou's role also continues to be v puzzling. the show seems to have forgotten that she's a mass-murdering cannibal dictator... AND ALSO, despite her distrustful nature, she's failed to notice the hints that the Future Federation are probably kind of evil?
obvs i complain here because i'm invested in the show... if i didn't like it, i wouldn't watch! (which is why you never see me tweeting about Lower Decks!)
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