Yes, yes it is.
Discovery is a very good show
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Discovery is great characters, second only to DS9 in my mind, with (especially season one) bad plotting at worst, mediocre at best. I'm incredibly disillusioned and disappointed and just plain ambivalent. I stopped watching after Season Three.
Also, I've come to greatly dislike fully-serialized Trek (but that's more because of the clusterfuck that is Picard (that I also wanted to like.))
Also, I've come to greatly dislike fully-serialized Trek (but that's more because of the clusterfuck that is Picard (that I also wanted to like.))
I really like a lot of the non-Burnam characters in Discovery and it saddens me that the show is so heavily Burnam-focused that we never really get to hang out with these cool characters for any extended period of time.
Burnham is my favorite Trek character.
Bold choice. Why, if I may ask
Relatable, sometimes very wrong, and willing to make changes. Someone who has to recognize their emotions are neither evil nor in need of suppression. And just damn interesting.
I wish I could agree. I just find her too dramatic about everything. Her being raised on Vulcan doesn't seem to make much impact on her
I think it does. After two decades of being repressed, it's all coming out. It's a reaction to how she had been living. I'd say that it's balanced itself out now by S4, especially now that she's had to be The Captain. Her changing position in life means that her outlook has changed again.
Look at Burnham in the flashback scene in "Battle at the Binary Stars". She was quite Vulcan-like when she was first assigned to the Shenzhou. So Captain Georgiou had some influence over her as well.
That's a good point but I wish that happened a bit sooner
It did but in a negative way.
Whether people like or not, that's a significant part of Discovery, not just her but since she's the primary character, her life journey. We see her as a terrified child, then an orphan, later a very vulcan acting graduate when she first appears on Shenzhou, her breakdown when Vulcan logic and her father's advice go against Starfleet protocol, re-integration back into Starfleet, etc.
Helpfully, her hair changes with every phase, not by accident. There are other characters that go through similar changes, like Dr Culber, who more dramatically has to deal with the whole "my co-worker murdered me" thing and all the other stuff that apparently goes with coming back to life.
It happened when she committed mutiny. It could not happen any sooner or it would have interfered with the opening credits. It wasn't some change that happened like a light switch being thrown. It was fits and starts. She still retreated into her Vulcan socialization at times, such as during the party seen at Madness to Make the Blah Blah Blah Blah.
That checks out.
Pre-Orphan Burnham: Run-of-the-mill little girl hairstyle.
Orphan Burnham: Vulcan bowl-cut.
Adult Burnham, when she enters SFA: Vulcan-ish looking hairstyle, but more of her own unique spin.
Burnham on the Shenzhou: Short straightened hair. No longer Vulcan-looking.
Burnham on the Discovery, Seasons 1 & 2: Short natural hair.
Burnham after being in The Future for a year: Waist-length hair. Braided.
Captain Burnham: Shoulder-length hair. Braided.
When her hair is straightened, she's more Vulcan-like. When it's natural, she's not Vulcan-like. When her hair's grown back out, she's grown into her natural self.
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I would not recommend working with teens or traumatized individuals.
She... just seems like she has the normal level of emotional reactions to things to me? I've met plenty of people who react emotionally disproportionately to things, and she doesn't strike me as that at all.
You're really comparing those people irl with Burnham?
Since I work with them on a daily basis, and see similar patterns of behavior, yes.
Fine enough.
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