Ahh, some more really great fun. If you liked Quinto's Spock, you probably liked Peck's as well. He used Nimoy as an example, but started his own spin on it. This was no pale imitation. You got a sense of how close he is with Pike during their scene together and it makes sense that Spock would alter pull out all the stops when their roles were reversed. There was also a nice 'fight' scene.
Mount is knocking it out of the park as Pike. His scene with Vina was perfect and he totally sold that he is the same character from the pilot. This is a cream filling between The Cage and The Menagerie, and you can tell everyone was working to sell it.
Tyler and Culber had a little scuffle of their own, and Saru had a great line about the situation. He's coming more into his own after the change and Pike is doing his best to handle it.
monty42 wrote:Discovery is a sequel to Enterprise and a prequel to DS9.
They completely changed the way that Section 31 is portrayed in both the prequel and the sequel.
It's been one hundred years between wither of these two. Not even totalitarian regimes and brutal dictatorships can have that kind of consistency. We've seen Admiral Ross and other uniformed people in DS9 and Harris was an admiral as well. Plus, having a subversive intelligence operation is kind of blunt if they don't have teeth.
monty42 wrote:Again Discovery is doing fan service wrong!
Attention to detail! Discovery fails horribly at it and that is what pisses me off the most because it is something that can very easily be cured by doing your homework.
They had a huge opening flashing back to the original pilot and had specific callbacks to it.
How did we all make it through The Next Generation when Data suddenly couldn't use contractions? Did we all walk out of the theater when Tom Holland came on screen because he didn't look anything like Andrew Garfield? A Star is Born sucked because Judy Garland and Lady Gaga weren't the same.
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