Yeah, that was horseshit.
It's at least three continuities...
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That's neither here nor there.
First of all, they didn't have to make Lorca light-sensitive.
Secondly, if they were married to the idea of Lorca being light-sensitive, it didn't have to be a trait typical of all Terrans in the Mirror Universe. For example, it could have just been personal damage, say from that one time when Lorca set off a photon grenade too close.
Thirdly, it couldn't have been more obvious that Lorca wasn't what he appeared, even ignoring his light-sensitivity. I had that pegged as probable ever since his "Context is for kings" speech to Burnham, which sounded positively sociopathic. But with bad writing, you can never be 100% sure about anything.
Westworld did a brilliant job with its big reveal in season one. I never saw it coming.
Yeah. That's an example of how to do it right.
OK, honest question. Where are people getting this whole light sensitivity thing? Discovery tells us that people from the Mirror Universe are sensitive to sudden changes in light, not light itself. This isn't really about how dark the sets are. Are there sudden changes in light in the original Mirror Universe episode from the Original Series? If so, we could say that's an inconsistency. If not, there would be no inconsistency. Correct?
General sensitivity to light was clearly stated in episode 12, Vaulting Ambition:
"You're sensitive to light."
"Only compared to a human from your universe. It's the singular biological difference between our two races."
Burnham had the "aha" moment because she remembered Lorca's eye condition.
Kor
I would say, "no continuity issues" instead of simply "no issues." It's true that the this is just another brick in the wall of PU issues.
But you'd still have dramatic issues. "Aha! You're light-sensitive!" is like the lowest form of drama. It's on such a literal level. "Aha! You tipped your hand as to who you really were in our first pep talk." is only slightly more sophisticated. If you really want a twist as such, you have to up the game. By the time we'd seen the branding on his back and Admiral Whatsherface had said she was going to evaluate him and threatened his command because she didn't think he seemed like the same person anymore, Lorca was unsurprisingly leaving her for dead at the hands of the Klingons, and there were just too many clues. Not only did you also have his sociopathic speech to Burnham, you had his weird eye condition as well.
These are the clues we're given, given that don't depend upon continuity. Factoring in the assurances that it's really the same ol' Prime Universe folks, you also have the Gorn skeleton in Lorca's creepy laboratory, years before Gorn first contact with Kirk. With your thinking cap on, the Gorn skeleton is the first overt clue that he's MU: where else was the Gorn seen at an earlier point in continuity besides the MU? That too came pretty early in the season.
Like the Ash/Tyler reveal, the idea that Lorca wasn't who he's supposed to be wasn't a twist as such. There was no reveal. There was only that moment when they confirmed out loud what was already quite clear.
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If Lorca wasn't uncomfortable in bright regular light, then why did he keep his creepy laboratory so dark?
Because he's EEEVVVVIIIILLLLLLLL! That's about as deep as Discovery's writing got.
Real question is if he was uncomfortable in regular light, then how he managed to walk in normally lit public spaces on ship (like corridors)? Regardless other person from MU depicted in DSC didn't kept her personal space significantly darker.
This was part of his cover. MU Georgiou didn't used eye drops.
That was part of the show's inability to hold a story thread together for more than twenty minutes.
The dialog itself went "You're sensitive to light!" and not "You're sensitive to sudden changes in light!"
And why didn't MU-Georgiou need the eye drops? Because she's just badder than MU-Lorca, of course.
Kor
Yep, they changed 50 years of TV history for a two-bit "twist" because everything on TV these days must have a twist
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