His stumble was perfect.
Favorite Scene in Season 2?
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His stumble was perfect.
In the Trek Heirarchy of Emotionally Vulnerable Stumbles...it's right up there with Kirk in TSFS.
If I had to choose "favourite stuff on-screen" - it would be that hard cut where they went directly from that "previously on"-footage from "The Cage" showing Jeffrey Hunter's Pike - with a hard cut - to Anson Mounts' version of Pike. That was kinda' genuis.
If we're talking "best fully acted scene", I have to go with this one as well:
If we're talking "best fully acted scene", I have to go with this one as well:
That scene was just the best. Because - while they previously already had nailed Pike - this scene just perfectly re-contextualized the entire Pike-Vina relationship. In the original episode, she was always a bit of the "damsel of the week". I still can't believe how respectfull that scene was to both the original storyline, but how it also managed to make Vina a fully formed, equal character. And how much chemistry was between the two. That was amazing.
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I can't choose! I like all that Pike does.
Of course, it's the greatest one:
Of course, it's the greatest one:
And other:
- The introducing to Disco crew and the farewell.
- Interaction with Tyler, from hostility to friendship. "The chair outranks the badge", "We're always fighting for the future", "Cavalry arrived just in time!", and oh, this moment when wounded Tyler whispers "Leland..." and falls, Pike stays wordless but has a clear pain in his eyes.
- Interaction with Spock, especially this scene from If Memory Serves: "Are you all right?" - "Much better for seeing you in person, sir. Even if we are only riding into danger." - "Is that a smile I see on your face?" - "I believe it is. Yes."
- Scene with Burnham in New Eden, "Don't make me laugh." - "Fortunately for you, I was raised on Vulcan. We don't do funny... Maybe I should just shut up." It was an only moment when Michael looks like Spock.
- All the sweetheart moments with Number One!
A slight cheat, but it might just have to be "Previously on Star Trek". Whilst I've watched every episode multiple times, That opening, I've definitely watched more than ten times as much as anything else. Kind of like the Enterprise reveal at the end of series 1.
How could I forget that? I especially loved the end, when they cut from Jeffrey Hunter to Anson Mount looking in the same direction with the same expression on their faces... almost as if the whole segment was Pike himself remembering what happened three years ago. Those beautiful transitions were a perfect representation of his thoughts jumping from one memory to the other with this in mind.
In retrospct, I find it a little bit sad that my favourite scenes purely involved characters and scenarios from an other, older show.
If I had to choose a favourite, original character moment - I actually think Mary Wiseman's acting and interaction with her "friend" in the upside down shroom-world was absolutely fantastic!
Also, when they were approaching Talos (okay, kinda' cheat) - that the "black hole" actually looked like the one from Interstellar. Our first, non-2D, realistic black hole on Star Trek y'all!
Purely original: That fucking Ba'Ul! My favourite addition to the canon this season. Their horror-movie like look, these giant, symmetric ships. But then them simply being afraid, and by far weaker than the Federation. That was a well-done reversal.
If I had to choose a favourite, original character moment - I actually think Mary Wiseman's acting and interaction with her "friend" in the upside down shroom-world was absolutely fantastic!
Also, when they were approaching Talos (okay, kinda' cheat) - that the "black hole" actually looked like the one from Interstellar. Our first, non-2D, realistic black hole on Star Trek y'all!
Purely original: That fucking Ba'Ul! My favourite addition to the canon this season. Their horror-movie like look, these giant, symmetric ships. But then them simply being afraid, and by far weaker than the Federation. That was a well-done reversal.
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