I found the Intendant insufferable, so I suppose Georgiou is in good company.
I think I just appreciate a little nuance in my shady characters. A little subtlety. Garak for example. Or even Dukhat. Georgiou is about as subtle as a sledgehammer.
Plus, I know the topic has been beaten like a dead horse, but I still find it odd that she was picked as a protagonist in a Trek film. I get it, flawed character seeking redemption is as classic as it gets in terms of storytelling, but the comparison to someone like Hitler is not without merit. Does an audience actually want to watch someone like that seek redemption?
I don't.
I'll watch it because I'll watch anything with the Trek named attached. But Space Hitler seeks redemption would certainly not be my first choice.
It's a moot point since it
didn't happen.
BUT, if it did, then I would want to watch it depending on how they handled it. If it was written like the TV Movie we got, then no. If it would've been much better written, then perhaps.
Obviously Section 31 can't become too enlightened 50 years before late-DS9. They attempted genocide on the Changeling Homeworld. The problem with the
Section 31 TV Movie was that they avoided all the tough questions. Instead of taking a stance and being unafraid of it, they decided to avoid the most challenging material.
I called it
back in 2019.
But anyway, Georgiou's never done anything against the Federation in the Prime Timeline, she's going under the identity of Prime Georgiou (which was mutually agreed to), and has cooperated with the Federation, so regardless of whatever she did in the Mirror Universe we have to move past that (and let's not forget you can't be tried for anything without evidence, especially considering there's also no context for it and Starfleet won't even acknowledge the Mirror Universe), or every discussion about the Section 31 Series will end up coming back to this and we'll never get out of this circle. I want to get out of this never-ending circle. I know a lot of other people do too. So we have to agree to disagree and move past it.
The Section 31 Series won't be for everyone and it doesn't have to be. I'm looking forward to it. Other people can watch something else. It's not like there'll be a shortage of options. I don't demand that I have to like each and every Star Trek series. But that's just me. But if you do watch, just don't act surprised when Section 31 does Section 31 things. I think the show is going to be a lot lighter than the weighty holier-than-thou criticisms being leveled towards it.
Everything I said in those two paragraphs, I could've said today. Word-for-word.
But when we get right down to it, it's just a fictional character, like
@Nyotarules said.
And we mostly only see her in the Prime Universe. Anything in the Mirror Universe, as far as I'm concerned, is just backstory.
Fictional backstory.
I like
Breaking Bad and
Better Call Saul as well. Doesn't mean I'd approve of Walter White or Saul Goodman if I knew them in Real Life, same as Georgiou. But, I'm watching them on TV, so it's interesting to see characters who have viewpoints totally foreign to my own.
Lorca wanted to overthrow Georgiou. He would've been just as bad, if not worse since he thought she went soft even in Season 1. Empress Sato was probably just as bad as well.
