So, the thin that bums me out is the resolution was too dang easy and dorsnt truly make any sense.
1.) Loreal convincing the klingons that there was a planet destroying bomb which she had the button to was too easy,
2.) convincing Cornwell in a five minute conversation, with genocide breathing down her neck, that this new plan is going to work, considering the risks seemed way to dang easy.
3.) I get Tyler's decision at the end and it makes sense, but Loreal was his torturer / rapist / lover, just too dang easy.
4.) Mike convincing George-yo without a real fight or conflict, too dang easy.
5.) They made this a bit of a deal, Emperor George-yo pretending to be captain George-yo but miraculously this never panned out to be any sort of a problem.
Just lame easy writing, a little saddening with such great acting.
It certainly wasn't a well-thought-out plot, that's for certain.
As for Tyler...that was just insulting. It's like
Discovery writers were afraid to pull the trigger on practically every single potentially realistic and interesting plotline they introduced:
A nuanced portrayal of a wartime commander who'd suffered a lot, was still suffering, and had more common sense and strategic acumen than all of the Admiralty combined...
...nah, he's Mirror Universe. Because Prime Universe Starfleet captains are all neutered utopian beta-males (except for Kirk but, apparently, the writers have forgotten that Kirk acted a lot like Lorca did and no one's condemned him for it).
A sensitive portrayal of a male victim of sexual abuse and torture (by a woman, no less!), suffering from PTSD, and struggling to come to grips with the aftermath of what he'd experienced...
...nah, he's this completely implausible bastard stepchild of Frankenstein's Monster and the Manchurian Candidate.
A realistic portrayal of a human, raised on Vulcan, who's struggling to find her way, only to make a horrible decision to mutiny against her surrogate mother/captain, and now must find a way to redeem herself every time she looks in the mirror...
...nah, mutiny is no big effin' thing; here's a full expungement of your record.
Good lord, they could've done
so much with all of these issues but...they didn't. They didn't do it. They went the easy way out with each and every one of them and the end result was a poorer product, in my estimation.
I kind of feel as if this is just the normal growing pains of the series and, perhaps, a season-long prologue of sorts. I suspect we'll get the episodic planet-a-week type adventures next season to a greater degree and, mayhap, that's for the best.
