Spoilers Star Trek: Discovery 2x13 - "Such Sweet Sorrow"
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In the United States, they should be listed on Discovery's main page at CBS All Access.
In Canada, they are on the SpaceGo app, and on Netflix international they are listed under Discovery's "trailers and more" section.
https://trekmovie.com/2019/01/17/star-trek-short-treks-now-available-on-netflix-internationally/
This isn't the first time the main story has intersected with a short trek. We met Saru's sister Siranna in a short trek, and I wouldn't be surprised in the slightest if the episode titled "Calypso" figures in before it's all over. The only one of the short treks that doesn't seem to fit in anywhere in the main story is the one featuring Harry Mudd. I figure that they just gave him a short trek to make up for not having room for him on the main show this year.
Timothy Peel has been posting a bunch of VFX stuff on his twitter. Mostly computer screen art, or holograms.
https://twitter.com/timothypeel1/st...i6xgyT0INYOBWOwXkbH9FI09uIhi8i-yCEieYnfWsA8AY
https://twitter.com/timothypeel1/st...i6xgyT0INYOBWOwXkbH9FI09uIhi8i-yCEieYnfWsA8AY
This is apparently one of those areas where you can't please everybody. For every person complaining about "character stuff," there is at least one other person complaining we know nothing about those characters and they are underdeveloped.
And often they are the same people.
The problem is actually the combination of those two things. We're getting character stuff for characters that are undeveloped.
Which means they are being developed.
Now Po, Po I thought was awesome. She and Tilly are among my favourites.
Just wondering why her planet is so weird. M Class but has a huge tentacle thing wrapped around it. I am thinking that plays a part in the big battle next week. Seriously why is that thing there?
Just wondering why her planet is so weird. M Class but has a huge tentacle thing wrapped around it. I am thinking that plays a part in the big battle next week. Seriously why is that thing there?
No, they're still not being developed. The writers are instead putting in these emotional payoff scenes without the buildup or development necessary for those scenes. Think of scenes like Picard joining his crew for poker, Sam's "I can carry you, Mr Frodo", The Red Wedding, Han Solo's death, "The Body" episode of Buffy, etc. These moments resonated with us emotionally because we've known the characters for a while and the writers put in the work to make us care about what happens to them. In contrast, Discovery spends 10 minutes on a melodramatic funeral for Airiam expecting the audience to be all weepy when, literally in the episode where she died, I thought she was a robot.
I think it's a cloud of some kind.
But it has the appearance of solidity to it and is in a really specific formation that wraps around the planet.
I'd cheer loudly if it's a defensive item.
Lovely.Anyone got screen caps of the beefed up shuttles?
Edit: Got one from a friend
If you know more about them than you did before, they're being developed. That's what development is. And seeing the crew say goodbye to their families, and mentioning things from their family life, is development. They would say goodbye to their families if they're leaving forever. Moreover, Airiam being infiltrated boiled in the background for a few episodes before she died and in that episode, which spotlighted her, they showed us her background. Which is all before the episode in the funeral. Lack of development is not knowing a thing about them and never finding out a thing about them ever. We're finding out things about them. Whether or not someone likes the way they're going about it depends on the viewer in question.
There's more than one way to develop a character. Some of these alternative methods do, however, require those watching to be able to muster up some tine sympathy/empathy drawing on related personal experiences with the people on the screen (such as every having been to an emotional event like a funeral, or having in one's life ever said a final goodbye to someone one loves). Of course, if one is not capable or willing to feel empathy/sympathy in this manner then this alternative does not work for such people.
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At least there's not another throwdown argument about volcanoes and snow. I want those minutes of my life back.
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The anthropomorphizing part of me likes to think the planet is a rastafarian and those are its dreadlocks.
