Great new clip for Episode 3
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Wow. Burnham is a dick.
That’s a compliment.
In fairness, she is quite depressed having just plunged the quadrant into war, losing her job, getting her mentor killed, losing all her friends, and basically any hope of normalcy ever again.
Tell me you haven't been a dick for far less.
In fairness, she is quite depressed having just plunged the quadrant into war, losing her job, getting her mentor killed, losing all her friends, and basically any hope of normalcy ever again.
Tell me you haven't been a dick for far less.
I am a dick.
In this clip, so is Burnham.
So far I like SM-G, but have seen little to like about Burnham.
BTW, some time has passed since her time on Shenzhou.
In fairness, I was looking around the background for her emotional support tribble.
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Cadet Tilly is her emotional support tribble, I bet its Captain Lorcas doing as well.
Finding it hard to like Burnham, if I was her I would be pretty thankful that I am not on a penal colony.
It reminds me of Red Dwarf, Burnham is Lister and Cadet Tilly is Rimmer.
Cadet Tilly is now my favorite Trek character.
I agree - of anything this seems to be the most new thing about the show. It seems willing to have its main cast have flaws other than them being just too damn clever/amazing, and actually acknowledge those flaws.
Chronic snoring got Michael up immediately! 
For myself, if I enter a room with two beds and I see that one of the beds has a storage area with the name of a person on the crates, I would assume that the bed was already occupied. That is just me.
It will be interesting to learn the sequence of the two clips, where we first met Lt. Stamets and sorting out the beds.
It will be interesting to learn the sequence of the two clips, where we first met Lt. Stamets and sorting out the beds.
I think the clip with Staments is after the scene with the beds because Michael is in the blue crewman uniform. In the pictures we saw with her meeting Lorca, she's in her yellow prisoner jumpsuit. Since Staments says Lorca sent her, it's logical to assume her meeting Lorca takes place before it, and the bed scene is either right before meeting Lorca, or shortly after it.
Oh my gobrino. I love Tilly already.
I get the feeling we're going to see Burnham grow from a disgruntled, unlikeable character, into a heroic, optimistic, and more open-minded person. That "learning to accept others" and to forgive is going to be part of her character arch, and the message of this series-- and one of the reasons it's set BEFORE The Original Series (because by TOS everyone in the Federation was accepting and tolerant).
Clearly the writer's put a lot of thought into these characters and stories beyond just "let's put one-note cardboard cut-outs we can all root for!"
Either way, I definitely think she's unlikeable by design. It's not something we've seen before on Trek (even the grumpy McCoy, Worf, Odo, B'Lanna, and T'Pol were "loveable" curmudgeons to some degree even at the start)-- which is another reason I like Discovery.
Clearly the writer's put a lot of thought into these characters and stories beyond just "let's put one-note cardboard cut-outs we can all root for!"
Either way, I definitely think she's unlikeable by design. It's not something we've seen before on Trek (even the grumpy McCoy, Worf, Odo, B'Lanna, and T'Pol were "loveable" curmudgeons to some degree even at the start)-- which is another reason I like Discovery.
