Spoilers Star Trek: Discovery 5x06 - "Whistlespeak"

[slappy]

Not enough:

Yup. 2017 called and asked for their criticisms back.

Why are we still having to say it? People are more upset with me than they are the casting director or the writers for giving a character a skill she can't possibly have. If I pointed out that Warwick Davis shouldn't portray an NBA player, nobody would bat an eye. But Tilly twice being portrayed as an endurance runner and me calling it preposterous is a bridge too far

 

[Farscape One]

My beard is fantastic. Come out of the basement and ask Mom. She knows.



I don't care what it was about, Tilly would've suffered cardiac arrest in 30 seconds. She's not running anywhere. Neither am I, but I'm not supposed to be a military officer.

And yet Tilly has been shown to be running in various episodes since season 1.

 

[fireproof78]

People are more upset with me then they are the casting director or the writers for giving a character a skill she can't possibly have. I'd I pointed out that Warwick Davis shouldn't por

Character consistency is no reason for me to be upset with anyone.

 

[slappy]

And yet Tilly has been shown to be running in various episodes since season 1.

Nobody said it wasn't consistent. Just ridiculous.

 

[DarrenTR1970]

I'm tempted to give this episode a 1 just because they want me to believe Tilly could run a race, much less win one. Not enough sci-fi in the world to explain that.

I've already mentioned my friend Traci, so I'll mention my co-worker, Karisa. She's five two, five three in work boots, weighs probably 100 pounds soaking wet, mounts and dismounts tires for a living on cars, SUVs, light and full size trucks and vans. Some tires are almost as tall as her when on edge and weigh just as much as she does. Ability over appearance.

 

[slappy]

I've already mentioned my friend Traci, so I'll mention my co-worker. She's five two, five three in work boots, weighs probably 100 pounds soaking wet, mounts and dismounts tires for a living on cars, SUVs, light and full size trucks and vans. Some tires are almost as tall as her when on edge and weigh just as much as she does. Ability over appearance.

Cool

 

[UssGlenn]

Pretty standard PD episode, was a decent entry. One thing bugged me as they left the system, though: isn’t it kinda shitty that they didn’t fix the other towers? Should have been easy enough to do, seems like some fresh cards and a reboot and they could have gotten the planet back on its feet. ‍

Thought about that, but it didn't look like the various circles would connect, and all the people in those areas were already dead, so there would be no way to get people to those areas (without further breaking the prime directive).

my question is, what exactly are they doing at the edge that requires them to be exposed to the storms? I was unclear on what that job was.

 

[Farscape One]

Nobody said it wasn't consistent. Just ridiculous.

I've known quite a few larger than average people who could run really fast... and for quite a while.

Others here have mentioned examples in their lives of people with such abilities.

It's not farfetched at all.

 

[DarrenTR1970]

If I pointed out that Warwick Davis shouldn't portray an NBA player, nobody would bat an eye. But Tilly twice being portrayed as an endurance runner and me calling it preposterous is a bridge too far

Muggsy Bogues, is 5ft 3in and was the Charlotte Hornets all time leader in assists and steals.

 

[fireproof78]

Yoda: judge me by my size, do you?

 

[Jayson1]

One of the most boring episodes ever. Never big fan of these pre-warp primitive type planets in Trek(except on TOS were it was kind of charming) and even though you sometimes get something good like 'Inner Light" I was really checking the time a lot. Didn't care about any of the guest characters and Tilly as a teacher is just not as fun as early seasons Tilly. The stuff with Culber was the only somewhat decent stuff going on IMO. Nice Kovic spot as well.

 

[Mage]

Why?

Because fatshaming is not ok.

 

[Tosk]

Why are we still having to say it? People are more upset with me than they are the casting director or the writers for giving a character a skill she can't possibly have. If I pointed out that Warwick Davis shouldn't portray an NBA player, nobody would bat an eye. But Tilly twice being portrayed as an endurance runner and me calling it preposterous is a bridge too far

I get your first reaction. There are overweight marathon runners though.

 

[Roald]

I'm tempted to give this episode a 1 just because they want me to believe Tilly could run a race, much less win one. Not enough sci-fi in the world to explain that.

What a narrow view… come on, no place for this here.. Trek fans should be *way* above this…

 

[ananta]

What’s with the body shaming? Getting a playground bully vibe from certain posters. It’s hardly a demonstration of Trek’s compassionate and humanistic sensibilities.

Shifting topic, I really miss Saru. Does anyone know if Doug Jones had prior commitments and wasn’t available for full time filming this season? That’s what happened with Mary Wiseman last season and I missed her greatly too. Glad to have her and her performance was one of the episode’s high points.

Also I really don't know if all the legacy bridge crew actors have better gigs or something, but it's so weird that they took them out of the show entirely and introduced half of a new bridge crew.

Maybe they’re trolling all the “why don’t we know more about the bridge crew” complainers! “You’re not going to know more about them—we’re going to get rid of them altogether! Ha.” Kidding. They probably should have rotated the bridge crew actors more to begin with, given a greater feel of shift work, stopped people thinking they should be on a par with the main cast, I don’t know. I do miss seeing Owo and Detmer though. I hope it’s because the actors had other work commitments.

 

[cultcross]

Let's leave the schoolyard fat jokes out of the discussion. Keep it respectful, keep the the privilege of posting in the thread.

 

[SJGardner]

Me: "Ah, nothing better than to open TrekBBS first time in the morning like every day, I wonder what the others are saying about this week's episode!"

Uhm.

 

[Rahul]

Tilly winning the race was way more believable than PIC S1ep1 Picard running up that stairs.
Or a petite nurse Chapel knocking out a 2m tall Klingon.

But really, people can be a bit chubby AND have lots muscles beneath.

 

[Agony_Boothb]

PIC S1ep1 Picard running up that stairs.

Ironically, it's very obvious in theat scene that Pat Stews stunt double is 'doing the leg work' so to speak

 

[firehawk12]

Maybe they’re trolling all the “why don’t we know more about the bridge crew” complainers! “You’re not going to know more about them—we’re going to get rid of them altogether! Ha.” Kidding. They probably should have rotated the bridge crew actors more to begin with, given a greater feel of shift work, stopped people thinking they should be on a par with the main cast, I don’t know. I do miss seeing Owo and Detmer though. I hope it’s because the actors had other work commitments.

Seems like the actors may have had other gigs, but it seems an inauspicious sendoff.

Also, if they didn't try to make them characters in S3, I almost wouldn't bother. But at this point they've gotten about the same character development as Travis Mayweather so they are more than the "McKnights" (or that Asian woman in SNW) of the bridge crew in terms of being glorified extras...