Credit: CBS
Okay, my favorite part of the the third-season finale of
Discovery is the ending: the closing credits, which employs the closing-credits music from the original series. This probably would’ve been even niftier last week, which was the 800th installment of
Trek onscreen, but it’s still a nifty little call-back to end this season, and as we just completed a year that had three new seasons of
Trek in it.
isn’t a cliffhanger, which is a welcome relief, frankly.
There’s, um, a lot going on here, most of it good, some of it head-scratching, none of it actively horrible, though there were some moments there where I was really worried. And that non-cliffhangery ending is wonderful in so many ways, but the status quo it leaves for our two leads is problematic.
B- The Hope That Is You, Part 2
“The Hope That Is You, Part 2” mostly sticks to the show’s strengths. There are not a lot of surprises here; the heroes win the day, there are no real sacrifices, everyone is brave and true and the baddies are either shot or dropped from a tall height. Michael manages to get her way, which is of course the only way that matters. A lot of people get shot, and it’s very pretty to look at. This is the longest episode of the season (I think it clocks out at 61 minutes), and that makes sense given how much narrative ground it needed to cover, but a good chunk of that time is dedicated to space battles that don’t really accomplish much of anything. There are several bad-ass one liners. Lots of pew pew zap zap, etc, and just enough technobabble to make it all seem vaguely grounded.
Credit: CBS
Okay, my favorite part of the the third-season finale of
Discovery is the ending: the closing credits, which employs the closing-credits music from the original series. This probably would’ve been even niftier last week, which was the 800th installment of
Trek onscreen, but it’s still a nifty little call-back to end this season, and as we just completed a year that had three new seasons of
Trek in it.
isn’t a cliffhanger, which is a welcome relief, frankly.
There’s, um, a lot going on here, most of it good, some of it head-scratching, none of it actively horrible, though there were some moments there where I was really worried. And that non-cliffhangery ending is wonderful in so many ways, but the status quo it leaves for our two leads is problematic.