I haven't seen any of S2 yet. I was disappointed in the ending of S1 and have been listening to the podcast hoping to find something of the potential I saw in season 1. The previous Saru episode and now this one I am going to subscribe to catch up. Great podcast episode.
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This episode really worked for me. Things seemed so much more "earned" this time out, instead of contrived like usual. Shout out to the podcast, which NEVER disappoints. You guys are so smart and so smooth in vocal delivery. Most importantly, you're fair toward the show, highlighting the things it does well and calling out the head-scratching missteps. Keep up the great work!
It's nice to hear lazy writing called out for what it is.
Thanks for the kind words! It's much easier to cheer when the show gets it right, so I hope this episode was the beginning of a trend.
@Glenn The picture of the Kelpiens as compliant victims in the maintaining of the Great Balance was overturned in this episode. I'm hoping we have not lost the kind, gentle giant Saru in favor of an explosive and easy to anger stranger. If that happens, he will be an alien in more ways than one.
Daniel, thanks for continuing to listen even though you haven't been watching. I hope the episodes we've liked will live up to your expectations. And we've got a bonus episode coming out on the regular feed on Thursday this week that will cover the DS9 episode "Our Man Bashir," which was a lot of fun.
I watched the episode last night, and I've begun but not finished this week's podcast. You might very well have covered this by the end of the episode, but since I have some time right now I wanted to chime in and give my half-formed thoughts on the Red Angel.
(First, @Glenn I believe the time-travel possibility was brought up by Tyler at the end of the previous episode, where S31 observed some kind of radiation or whatever associated with the appearances. I don't think they actually said "chronoton" but it was something along those lines.)
Thanks to Saru's "enhanced vision" of the angel, we got a pretty good look at its body, and they described it as "a humanoid in a suit". That humanoid outline looks pretty feminine to me. My wacky prediction is that it's future-Burnham herself. Would explain the angel's focus on Spock and Discovery, and perhaps also Burnham's absence from future-Trek canon. But it's also super, super obvious… I am not good at predictions of this sort, so if it's something I immediately think of, it's probably not clever enough to be true.
I'm right there with you, but I thought it might be Tilly because of her connection to the mycelial network. I like your suggestion better. Of course, I'm still really holding out for it to be Future Captain Archer.
I personally have decided that this series makes more sense to me if it is in a different universe from the other shows that have been aired before. So anything that we have seen before could still happen or not. Burnham could still be around and there is no retconing needed. It may not be the official stance on the series, but it makes me less critical of the discrepancies.
Well, no mention of Sybok.