Watching Disco

[conuly]

1. Mirror Universe. What a surprise.

2. Lorca is shady as hell. Here Michael is with a solid, if unimaginative solution to their dilemma - one which requires nothing so much as processing power and crew hours - and Lorca is like "Nah, we don't have time for that, let's focus on surviving now and we'll look at returning home later". Like, there's no reason they can't put *some* energy into looking at the logs, is there?

3. Tilly trying to gently annoy Stamets is heartrendingly adorable :(

4. Oh, my god, it's even more heartrending, this conversation.

5. His speech is going to turn out to be not so nonsensical after all, right? Called it, if so.

6. So, maaaaaybe they could've found another damn shuttle pilot than the guy with the PTSD-y flashbacks?

7. Lorca is such an emotionally manipulative asshole omg. Maybe your crew would act more professionally if you made better decisions? Huh?

8. Is there a reason sci-fi cells never have toilets? Do they take the prisoners out to potty? Seems mildly risky.

9. Tyler, Tyler, nothing good can come of this...!

10. Wow. What a surprise. Tyler's a sleeper agent. Didn't see that coming.

11. Wait, we're supposed to believe that Vulcan has an expression that's almost exactly identical to an English one, and Michael never bothered to look up the etymology and Amanda never told her the similarity?

12. Trusting people when they say not to disclose serious mental health issues never works well on this show, have you noticed?

13. "That's absurd." Wow, Lorca, rude!

14. This drama is turning into a farce. Callie, on my lap (despite a dog in the room!) is very put out.

15. Hey, it's Scotty. LOL.

16. Wow, Lorca, stop being a jerk. Tilly deserves some praise. She did really well on really short notice.

17. Captain Killy? It's not very clever, but damn, how many nicknames has the mirror Tilly even accumulated!?

18. Yes, Tyler is certainly the best crewmember for this job ffs.

19. Apropos of literally nothing, I wonder what mirrorverse Tribbles are like. Or mirrorverse Borg.... (Mirrorverse Q?)

20. Okay, so everybody's like "Yay, the ladies are wearing protective garments and not just sexy wisps of cloth", and am I the only one who thinks the armored uniforms are waaaaaay attractive? AND practical.

21. ...my opinion of Lorca has gone up very slightly, because he's clearly dedicated to his role. He's still an asshole.

22. Tilly, there is still such a thing as overkill. Even here. Still...!

23. You know, Doc, I'm thinking that this is the sort of conversation you want to have on the other side of a forcefield. Just as a precautionary measure.

24. And another minority bites the dust. On the plus side, this one was a man. A black, gay man, so... still no. Why don't you kill off a straight white dude for a change, show!?

25. ...exactly how stupid are the Terrans that you've got so many of them shoved into agonizer booths at any given time? I don't know about you, but I'd toe a very straight line to avoid that shit.

26. So very, very stupid. Why the hell are you monologuing before you kill your captain? You're just giving the game away! What is this, some fucked up sense of fair play?

27. That was a climactic scene, and we've still got four minutes left!?

28. Should've stopped at the end of that last shot. Seriously.

29. Hey, what do you wanna bet that Mirror!Burnham isn't really dead after all? Oooh, I hope they bump into her.

30. Poor Tyler. It's all gonna fall apart real soon.

31. Well, that's a dismal next episode trailer.

Comments

[chelseagirl]

I thought the same about #28.

[conuly]

And are they seriously getting it on when they know Lorca is being tortured? Sure, he's an asshole, but that is cold.

[thewayne]

AH, AH, AH, AH -
BEAMIN' ABOARD!
BEAMIN' ABOARD!

Sorry, couldn't resist.

[sabotabby]

I'm embarrassed at how attractive I find Captain Killy. Wait, no I'm not.

I seriously doubt that Culber is permadead. If he is I'm gonna be hella pissed.

"Our" Lorca is 100% Mirror!Lorca.

[saturnofthemoon]

The problem with killing off straight white men is that there are only two in the cast, plus one alien played by a straight, white man.

[schneefink]

#2 + #6: plot constantly makes me think like there are no more than 20 people on board, because nobody seems to be delegating.

#3 yess I am here for Stamets&Tilly.

#20, nope, definitely not the only one.

[gatheringrivers]

#7:
"Professional" is far different from "lying one's ass off to the people who SHOULD have your back". :)

#8:
It seems Trek never DID show much for bathrooms, beyond part of a bathroom in an episode of TNG where everyone was regressing into a primitive ancestral form.

#20:
Holy shit, practical uniforms??? I may die of shock!

I am amused at Tilly channeling her inner psycho, lol.

I'm interested in seeing MirrorTribbles too! :)

(Yes, of course there's plot holes, but it's Star Trek - it's always had plot holes...)

[conuly]

So peg a random redshirt to up and die for the ship!

[conuly]

It seems Trek never DID show much for bathrooms, beyond part of a bathroom in an episode of TNG where everyone was regressing into a primitive ancestral form.

Maybe they just all have iron bladders.

[conuly]

1. INORITE!?

3. Well, I mean, in a platonic way.

[conuly]

You could've, you just didn't want to! :D

[conuly]

Apparently the entire crew is reassuring us en masse that he's not really dead, so... yay?

[saturnofthemoon]

We did lose Ensign/Captain Redshirt this week. I’m pretty sure Lorca won’t survive the season, but that doesn’t make it right. :(

[conuly]

True, but do mirrorverse deaths count/

[sabotabby]

Yeah, it's just not the kind of thing that seems like a good narrative decision, anyway, in the same way that Voq just disappearing from the show made little sense.

[monanotlisa]

Where do I get one of those..?

[thewayne]

You're rich, I could've. But I got a smile, and that's worth it.