I was really hoping that Discovery itself was the cause of the burn due to some strange quirk of their time travel.
But no, they made the cause a literal crying child.
due to some strange quirk of their time travel.
While that’s kind of a trope all by itself, I agree that would have been far superior to the apocalypse crybaby reveal.
And of course…they are the only ones who can solve it
That season had so much potential…
Yeah, I was almost OK with the plot, they (re-)set-up the story fairly nicely, for a moment it had potential.
I posted this one a while back:
Despite that, I think there were some interesting things about that season, and despite the oddness that was that plot, Saru and iPad baby was somehow still enjoyable.
I just feel like they squandered their interesting new setting with season 4 (granted, I haven’t finished season 4); there were so many plots that could have sprung organically from the fall of the Emerald Chain and the rebuilding of the Federation, but no, we have to make up this stupid DMA as a big bad again, and we have to do another plot about dealing with grief.
Heck, we could have kept the DMA and still blown up Booker’s homeworld, but let his family live and instead have written a story about living in diasporas, rather than beating the dead horse that is DISCO’s take on individual grief.
let his family live and instead have written a story about living in diasporas
Given that Discovery had plenty of Afrofuturism themes at this point in the story, this really seems like an obvious go-to for where to go next. Booker’s homeworld wasn’t perfect, but it was more perfect than anything else going at the time; losing it was a tragedy that really needed a better epilogue. Rebuilding that place, or helping his people find a new home (probably with the Trills), is a very compelling arc and would have seen the character come unto their own. We really should have seen Booker find a place among the Federation delegates by the end of the series.
