An Obol for Charon is a very bad episode of television.
The episodic plot is static, and pointless.
The poor young half-Vulcan is infecting every scene of this show, like some kind of cosmic fungus.
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Special Guest Star Rebecca Romijn plays Special Guest Original Pilot Character Number One, and talks about Spock.
Saru prepares to die, and his last words are about Spock.
All is Spock, Spock is all.
Can she fix this show?
Her spiky interaction with Stamets finally gave Anthony Rapp something to play besides fungal melancholy.
Apology time: I misspelled JETT RENOs name when I wrote about the season premiere.
Tillys psionically connected to an interdimensional blobule?WHIIIIRRRRbuzzes JETT RENOS electric drill.
Its time, she suggests, to drill a hole in dear Tillys skull.
Im afraid this episode drilled a bit of a hole in my own skull.
She talks to Pike about the murder-y allegations against Spock.
She hints yet again at the mistakes that Ive made with Spock,kindly dont be romance pleasepleaseplease no.
Now,Discoveryhas always been a show with a lot of cooks in the kitchen.
Im loathe to blame anyone for a season that already feels like such a mess of creative motivations.
Tell an epic war story!
Spin Michelle Yeoh off!
Have Spock but dont have Spock!
But An Obol for Charon suggests a show that palpablyneedsa major change.
A few interesting plot potentials evaporate.
The universal translator breaks, but then it immediately gets fixed on the bridge.
The space blob doses Engineering with Psilocybin, but then Stamets reverse-doses himself and JETT RENO.
Come on, cant the acid trip last longer than thirty seconds?
What Airiam Said This Week:Negative, sir.
We dont have enough power to create the necessary hull capitation [gravitation?
