Haven’t watched it just yet, but at least now I know to get good and sloshed first.

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    I’ll say it.

    In spite of everything we saw in Discovery, Michelle Yeoh was always a delight, no matter which character she played

    If we got more of her, regardless of the rest, I’ll enjoy it

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      Michelle Yeoh was always a delight

      I never understood the love for her Star Trek characters. It seems that people who hated Discovery at least complimented the Emperor Georgiou character as a high point. She is far from bad, but I just don’t get it.

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        i wish we got to spend more time with Captain Georgiou. she saw potential in Michael when no one else did, but didn’t see the disrepency between what she was and could be. she paid the ultimate price for making her the xo, and it arguably led to a quadrant wide war. that’s interesting! the Emperor always felt to me like an excuse to reuse an actor and just came across like more noise in a season that already had too many anttagonists.

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          The war wasn’t Burnham’s fault in any way. T’Kuvma was starting a war one way or the other. Georgiou might have survived with a different first officer, though.

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        I wasn’t a fan; she kept chewing the scenery so much it was almost like the plot had to pause every time she started another soliloquy

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            To be honest, it’s not even her performance; it’s the fact that “villains chewing the scenery” has become a trope in itself the last few years. Doctor Who was the worst for that, and poisoned me against it everywhere in SF

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      She was one of only three seasons I continued to watch the garbage pile that was Discovery. But this was easily the worst I’ve gotten from her character. Not because of her acting. Her character just seemed watered down in this movie.