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STD S2, E6: Oh, ffs…
You guys, I’ve been trying really hard.
It’s been months (weeks?) since I’ve spoken (too) negatively about this show and I’ve even praised it to some degree in an attempt to reward them for trying hard. On twitter, I’ve been trying to end the cycle of toxicity that I helped metastasize within the fandom. Hell, I’ve been typing out “Discovery” instead of just using STD because some people out there are afraid of seeing letters they don’t like.
This week, though… this week was so offensively dumb. It’s bad enough that the Prime Directive got hilariously hand-waved away in the Saru Short Trek. It’s bad enough that Saru had to fight with Pike to go down to the surface instead of Burnham. It’s bad enough that instead of an interesting exploration of the Kelpian society we got Saru’s sister for the whole episode. But then they had to go and make the Ba’a’l’ul a terrible-looking swamp monster thing and shove in a nonsensical “but what if the predators were the prey?” storyline that I hesitate to call an allegory because we shouldn’t be rewarding professional writers for middle school creative writing ideas.
What are these writers and producers doing? Do they even know? Are they literally just plopping shit into a bowl and divining plots from the random assemblage of half-digested kernels?
