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CommanderRaytas said:
I'm gonna be super edgy and dramatically proclaim that I don't mind the Burnham/Tyler romance any more than I minded Anakin/Padmé. :cool:
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I mean, it doesn't make me actively angry or anything. It just doesn't work. I don't buy them as being anything more than friends. Neither one seems to be particularly attracted to the other. Etc.
 
eschaton said:
I mean, it doesn't make me actively angry or anything. It just doesn't work. I don't buy them as being anything more than friends. Neither one seems to be particularly attracted to the other. Etc.
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I've known real couples that I felt that way about, too, though, so, who can say?

I still think the Anakin/Padme thing would have worked better if she had had a bit of a dark side (not THE Dark Side, just a dark side) and had been encouraging Anakin to do things he wasn't supposed to because it gave her a thrill - encouraging his feelings for her even though he was a Jedi, setting up the jealous confrontation between him and Obi Wan, etc. Really, her having a component to her personality like that is the only way I can get past her reaction to him having slaughtered the Tusken Raiders, including women and children - she might have loved him but she was also getting her jollies and maybe grooming him as a tool for her own use, as well.

But I digress... ;)
 
Out of all my problems with the Star Wars prequel movies Anakin/Padme wasn't one. Maybe because the desire of anyone to bone Natalie Portman is just so self-evident. Also, Hayden Christensen was universally awful - not just bad when he was in scenes with Portman. In contrast, Latif and SMG have put in fine performances on Discovery - just never at the same time, when it comes to their "relationship."
 
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A bit fanwanky, but kinda a cool potential scenario when he gets to the end.
 
CommanderRaytas said:
I'm gonna be super edgy and dramatically proclaim that I don't mind the Burnham/Tyler romance any more than I minded Anakin/Padmé. :cool:
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When it comes to romance I think SMG and AM have good chemistry, I can see Pike and Burnham having a romantic relationship right under everyone's nose and nobody even notices...but not gonna happen. Or maybe I should ship her with Linus?
 
Alright, let me first say that I'm AWFUL at predicting / theorizing where shows or franchises are going. I'm probably the guy who would have predicted Spock would NOT return in The Search for Spock and that the Titanic would not sink in Titanic.

That said, I can't help but wonder if we are actually being set up for a huge shift at the end of this season. If they've spent as much time and energy on the Enterprise bridge set as we've come to be told, and they've gone through the trouble of casting Mount, Peck, Rebecca Romijn, etc...is it possible that the events seen in Calypso will have the USS Discovery lost without her crew (abandoned ship?) by the end of the season, and Pike will take key members of the Discovery crew back to the Enterprise and the series will continue that way? So...not a "Pike gets his own show" scenario...but more like a shift in settings.
 
Vger23 said:
That said, I can't help but wonder if we are actually being set up for a huge shift at the end of this season. If they've spent as much time and energy on the Enterprise bridge set as we've come to be told, and they've gone through the trouble of casting Mount, Peck, Rebecca Romijn, etc...is it possible that the events seen in Calypso will have the USS Discovery lost without her crew (abandoned ship?) by the end of the season, and Pike will take key members of the Discovery crew back to the Enterprise and the series will continue that way? So...not a "Pike gets his own show" scenario...but more like a shift in settings.
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Interesting idea. I'd say the answer though is likely no for one reason and one reason alone: They wouldn't want to have to junk all the Discovery sets. That's a big sunk cost that CBS would have to needlessly eat.
 
eschaton said:
Interesting idea. I'd say the answer though is likely no for one reason and one reason alone: They wouldn't want to have to junk all the Discovery sets. That's a big sunk cost that CBS would have to needlessly eat.
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True,

I thought about that and I'd guess the only set they'd need to do without would be the Discovery bridge, which could be re-purposed. Each of the other sets I'd guess would get a re-dress / paint job, etc and be good to go. May need to change the window shapes in a few of them...but otherwise I'd guess they'd be able to do it. Kind of like how much the TMP sets got re-dressed over time...
 
In "Calypso", we know that Discovery is waiting around for something. And that something has to show up. So, if Discovery is taken out of the picture in the series, I think it would only be temporary.

Before my time as a fan, but wondering about whether or not DSC will shift its focus to the Enterprise reminds me of the TOS Movies when people were wondering if the focus would shift to the Excelsior.
 
Lord Garth said:
In "Calypso", we know that Discovery is waiting around for something. And that something has to show up. So, if Discovery is taken out of the picture in the series, I think it would only be temporary.

Before my time as a fan, but wondering about whether or not DSC will shift its focus to the Enterprise reminds me of the TOS Movies when people were wondering if the focus would shift to the Excelsior.
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"So this is Discovery, the newest and most state-of-the-art ship in Starfleet?"
"Well, technically its the oldest ship in star fleet by several hundred years."
"What? How is that possible?"
"It's a very long story."
 
So a piece of information to add to the speculation: over on the Discovery subreddit, people are discussing the fact that when the landing party sees the blood on the station in 1x09, there's a half-eaten red apple spinning away right in the middle of the screen. In retrospect, the way they telegraph Georgiou grabbing an apple earlier in the season and taking a bite out of it is starting to feel like this season's version of Lorca's octopus dinner.

Do we perhaps have evidence that Georgiou is involved in Control going crazy, or perhaps that she is at least aware of what's gone down?
 
Midquest said:
Do we perhaps have evidence that Georgiou is involved in Control going crazy, or perhaps that she is at least aware of what's gone down?
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If she was familiar with the information that was on USS Defiant - and there's every reason to think she would be - then she may have noticed that things aren't tracking quite right with what was said there for the last few years, and tracked the apparent source of the differences back to CONTROL, which she probably would have been familiar with a version of in her home universe. Section 31 only thinks *they* recruited *her*, when really, she got herself associated with them in trying to get to the bottom of a mystery.
 
USS Triumphant said:
If she was familiar with the information that was on USS Defiant - and there's every reason to think she would be - then she may have noticed that things aren't tracking quite right with what was said there for the last few years, and tracked the apparent source of the differences back to CONTROL, which she probably would have been familiar with a version of in her home universe. Section 31 only thinks *they* recruited *her*, when really, she got herself associated with them in trying to get to the bottom of a mystery.
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Oooh I like that theory a lot. I had forgotten she would have had the knowledge from the Defiant's databanks.
 
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