Star Trek Discovery S5E10 (Finale!)
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lightofdayeThoughts about last episode of the season and series under the cut.
Dammit Discovery! I'm afraid this is rather long on complaints.
I don't know if I consciously noted this in the previous reviews but the result we get here is pretty much inevitable both from the antecedents of Indiana Jones style moves and the needs of the franchise. The tech isn't use to transform society in ways we can't imagine because we need to be able to imagine the society for disco s6 or other 32nd century shows.
So they go through the whole season to get the power, and just immediately discard it. I mean you can go for it's a more about the journey than the destination.
Then there's the final action sequence, they use the spore drive to transport the breen dreadnought away by doing a saucer separation to put in the field of the spore drive effect. Except... the only part we see is the end of this happening from a distance. nothing about the actual saucer seperating or who's flying the other bit of it or anything.
So it was nearly 90 minutes long. a good chunk longer than a regular epiosde but a lot of it is disco's smaltzy season ending stuff. There's an obvious cut where the season was supposed to end and they tacked on a coda for the whole series. A much older Admiral Burnham seeing Discovery for one last time. The vessel is restore to it's original configuration and sent off to wait for... classified reasons we aren't told and really the only reason is not to break continuity with the Short Trek episode Calypso. Which is admirable but not given any thought of why it happens in-universe;
Minor complaint for all the fanservice we get no return of Detmer or Owo that I noticed.
For all these complaints, I don't dislike Discovery but I do get a sense of playing it safe and wasted potential. This season I've seen people of the opinion that the Breen were way more interesting than the main progenitor plot for example. There's amazing potential in the 32nd century but it's never quite tapped the depths of it.
Here's to Discovery. To me, underrated and fair from perfect. But still I got the sense it was always trying and I respect that.
Dammit Discovery! I'm afraid this is rather long on complaints.
I don't know if I consciously noted this in the previous reviews but the result we get here is pretty much inevitable both from the antecedents of Indiana Jones style moves and the needs of the franchise. The tech isn't use to transform society in ways we can't imagine because we need to be able to imagine the society for disco s6 or other 32nd century shows.
So they go through the whole season to get the power, and just immediately discard it. I mean you can go for it's a more about the journey than the destination.
Then there's the final action sequence, they use the spore drive to transport the breen dreadnought away by doing a saucer separation to put in the field of the spore drive effect. Except... the only part we see is the end of this happening from a distance. nothing about the actual saucer seperating or who's flying the other bit of it or anything.
So it was nearly 90 minutes long. a good chunk longer than a regular epiosde but a lot of it is disco's smaltzy season ending stuff. There's an obvious cut where the season was supposed to end and they tacked on a coda for the whole series. A much older Admiral Burnham seeing Discovery for one last time. The vessel is restore to it's original configuration and sent off to wait for... classified reasons we aren't told and really the only reason is not to break continuity with the Short Trek episode Calypso. Which is admirable but not given any thought of why it happens in-universe;
Minor complaint for all the fanservice we get no return of Detmer or Owo that I noticed.
For all these complaints, I don't dislike Discovery but I do get a sense of playing it safe and wasted potential. This season I've seen people of the opinion that the Breen were way more interesting than the main progenitor plot for example. There's amazing potential in the 32nd century but it's never quite tapped the depths of it.
Here's to Discovery. To me, underrated and fair from perfect. But still I got the sense it was always trying and I respect that.
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Date: 2024-06-01 11:52 pm (UTC)I suppose more possibilities for fanfic but yeah, this season was a real mixed bag to be sure.
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Date: 2024-06-02 11:40 am (UTC)I wonder if not knowing it was their last season they were expecting to be able to do more with the Breen in more seasons. They dealt with the immediate threat but not the overarching competition for succession.
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Date: 2024-06-03 01:53 am (UTC)Reflecting on the whole season, I'm still perplexed I was so annoyed by the Book/Michael "will they or won't they get back together" storyline taking precedent during a season that really felt like nonstop go go go go. I don't know if they just had so many loose ends to tie up that they landed on that because they felt it would make for a nostalgic ending? I felt like the season didn't have very many moments to just sort of rest, and by the end I was just feeling underwhelmed.
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Date: 2024-06-03 07:49 pm (UTC)For the final epilogue they were constrained a lot by the actors and sets that were available I think since they did it a couple of months after the cancellation. Apparently most of the sets aside from the bridge we gone.