Jessie Gender's re-watch of ST: DISCO
Posted: Tue Mar 19, 2024 8:55 am
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E07tr3f ... AiEV1BUCaq
Jessie Gender is one of my favorite geek media/political Youtube commentators. I don't always agree with her conclusions and thinks she reaches quite a bit to reach some of her conclusions but generally enjoy her reviews of just about all of Nu Trek as well as other works. She's also honest in a way I trust more than other commentaries because when she hates a show, like Rings of Power, she'll say she HATES a show.
Interestingly, she's been doing a review of DISCO episode by episode in preparation for the final season of Discovery. I think we're all in agreement that Disco is now kind of the odd man out of the Nu Trek era as while you may have your issues with Picard, everyone likes Strange New Worlds and Lower Decks (first two episodes aside) that the Nu Trek era is "accepted" as Star Trek now. Disco is still controversial, though, and now sits there with ENT for a lot of people or even lower.
Her review is giving me an interesting perspective on things, though. There's the speculation the BATTLE OF THE BINARY STARS pilot movie was actually made after the first half of the series and that originally we would have gotten it in flashbacks or just started with Burnham as "Mysterious Mutineer and Prisoner" which would have been SO MUCH BETTER. However, I do think it remains the best thing DISCO ever did as well and is a shame because T'Kuvma is a character who deserved better.
A lot of her reviews so far focus on the normalization of fascism in the series and how Lorca represents old style militaristic and controlling versus Burnham learning to resist that. It's not 100% accurate I think but I do think it holds up pretty well in many places with what we later find out about everyone.
I do totally disagree with her, though, about her thinking Tilly choosing NOT to be a Captain was a good then when I think that was a much better arc for BURNHAM. Tilly should totally be a Captain.
Jessie Gender is one of my favorite geek media/political Youtube commentators. I don't always agree with her conclusions and thinks she reaches quite a bit to reach some of her conclusions but generally enjoy her reviews of just about all of Nu Trek as well as other works. She's also honest in a way I trust more than other commentaries because when she hates a show, like Rings of Power, she'll say she HATES a show.
Interestingly, she's been doing a review of DISCO episode by episode in preparation for the final season of Discovery. I think we're all in agreement that Disco is now kind of the odd man out of the Nu Trek era as while you may have your issues with Picard, everyone likes Strange New Worlds and Lower Decks (first two episodes aside) that the Nu Trek era is "accepted" as Star Trek now. Disco is still controversial, though, and now sits there with ENT for a lot of people or even lower.
Her review is giving me an interesting perspective on things, though. There's the speculation the BATTLE OF THE BINARY STARS pilot movie was actually made after the first half of the series and that originally we would have gotten it in flashbacks or just started with Burnham as "Mysterious Mutineer and Prisoner" which would have been SO MUCH BETTER. However, I do think it remains the best thing DISCO ever did as well and is a shame because T'Kuvma is a character who deserved better.
A lot of her reviews so far focus on the normalization of fascism in the series and how Lorca represents old style militaristic and controlling versus Burnham learning to resist that. It's not 100% accurate I think but I do think it holds up pretty well in many places with what we later find out about everyone.
I do totally disagree with her, though, about her thinking Tilly choosing NOT to be a Captain was a good then when I think that was a much better arc for BURNHAM. Tilly should totally be a Captain.