![]() If you’re not watching that show, then you’re missing one of the best sci-fi series on television. Perhaps it was because the previous night I’d been watching the last week’s episode of The Expanse (the fifth of season five). The fast was almost too fast, which made the slow feel too slow.īut unfortunately, that wasn’t the only problem that I had with the season finale…Īlas, I have an even deeper problem with the action scenes: they required turning one’s brain off to truly enjoy, and I just couldn’t do that this time. ![]() I hadn’t even realized that there never was a Part 2 the following week! Well, twelve weeks later, now there is.) Anyway, as I said, this episode had only two speeds, and it jerked us back and forth. Why did that episode work and this one didn’t? Because the fast-paced scenes weren’t constantly super-fast, the hostage scenes were mostly medium speed, and the Vance and Stamets scenes, while slow, had tension and an air of not knowing what would happen.Ĭompare that to “That Hope Is You, Part 2.” (And by the way “That Hope Is You, Part 1” was the first episode of this season. ![]() There was Michael doing the Die Hard thing while the hostages tried to get free while Stamets talked to the Emerald Chain scientist while Vance negotiated with Osyraa. Compare it to last episode, which also had differently paced scenes. And as a viewer, that unevenness didn’t work at all for me. Nothing necessarily wrong with that.īut the two types of scenes switched back and forth so that you were either rushing along at warp speed or else you were crawling at one-tenth impulse. Gotta keep that kid calm lest he scream and destroy the galaxy again! So everything in the holo-chamber on the dilithium planet was super serene and slow, with lots of empathy and understanding from Saru and the others. There was ample action-AMPLE!!!-lots of running and shooting and explosions and fighting and kicking people out of elevators and crew members suffocating and people running out of time and gosh darn it…things just moved at maximum warp.Īnd then there was Su’Kal. Have you ever ridden with a teen just learning to drive a car and they speed up and slow down and speed up and slow down over and over so much that it’s all you can do to hold down your last meal? The finale was kinda like that. I say it that way because that’s kinda how I felt as I watched the full 60-minute episode (the longest of the season). It’s hard to know where to start…or stop…or start…or stop again. With a set-up like that, what could possibly go wrong with the finale? But she couldn’t jump away because Stamets (against his will) was ejected from the ship by Michael…setting up lord-knows-how-many future fireworks between the two! Meanwhile, Saru, Culber, and Adira were stuck on the dilithium planet with the Kelpien equivalent of Black Bolt, trying to save the galaxy before dying of radiation poisoning. Osyraa was cornered, outnumbered by Starfleet vessels that could blow Discovery out of the sky (well, space) but holding the most valuable bargaining chip: the spore drive. Michael had just been captured by Zareh while Book was already a hostage on the bridge. Tilly and the bridge crew, along with the DOT-bot “army” still had to retake the ship from Oysraa. ![]() Last week, I truly LOVED the second-to-last episode of STAR TREK: DISCOVERY‘s third season, “There Is a Tide.” With so much happening going into the final episode, my hopes were high.
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