As much as I love Discovery, those motherfuckers are TRAUMATIZED.
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Burnhams father was killed by Klingons. Burnham then falls in love with a human-klingon hybrid (for lack of a better concise phrase) who kills her shipmate. She then falls in love with another man who has his entire planet accidentally ‘murdered’. That man then pals around with ANOTHER murderer who almost gets all of humanity killed. Meanwhile, Stamets has his husband murdered by the human-klingon hybrid and then has to work alongside said murderer. Stamets then loses his shit at Burnham, calling her a murderer for leaving his unmurdered husband on a hellplanet. Lorca and Admiral Cornwall were in sort of a relationship until Prime Lorca vanishes (presumed dead) into the Mirror Universe. Then Mirror Lorca gets killed AND Cornwall gets killed. Ariams husband gets exploded and then Ariam is killed via sanctioned murder. Most love stories on the show involve someone being killed in some horrible way. I was about to mention Grey/Adira being the only one who didn’t have death involved but then I remembered the giant asteroid that obliterated the colony ship and fucking killed Grey. Saru and T’Rina. That’s it. That’s the only relationship in the show I can think of that doesn’t involve tons of people dying.
Note I say all that as a huge fan of the show. But my god. Everyones loved ones might as well be Disney parents with how often they die.
Kurtzman can’t get enough “what if character you might start caring about… DIES?” cheap gimmicks so he presses them into as many episodes as he can smear himself on to.
As much as I love Discovery, those motherfuckers are TRAUMATIZED.
spoiler
Burnhams father was killed by Klingons. Burnham then falls in love with a human-klingon hybrid (for lack of a better concise phrase) who kills her shipmate. She then falls in love with another man who has his entire planet accidentally ‘murdered’. That man then pals around with ANOTHER murderer who almost gets all of humanity killed. Meanwhile, Stamets has his husband murdered by the human-klingon hybrid and then has to work alongside said murderer. Stamets then loses his shit at Burnham, calling her a murderer for leaving his unmurdered husband on a hellplanet. Lorca and Admiral Cornwall were in sort of a relationship until Prime Lorca vanishes (presumed dead) into the Mirror Universe. Then Mirror Lorca gets killed AND Cornwall gets killed. Ariams husband gets exploded and then Ariam is killed via sanctioned murder. Most love stories on the show involve someone being killed in some horrible way. I was about to mention Grey/Adira being the only one who didn’t have death involved but then I remembered the giant asteroid that obliterated the colony ship and fucking killed Grey. Saru and T’Rina. That’s it. That’s the only relationship in the show I can think of that doesn’t involve tons of people dying.
Note I say all that as a huge fan of the show. But my god. Everyones loved ones might as well be Disney parents with how often they die.
Fucking Grey’s Anatomy in Space
Grey’s Anatomy had hotter guys and (somehow) less melodrama.
More like Stardates of Our Lives or As the Galaxy Turns
Kurtzman can’t get enough “what if character you might start caring about… DIES?” cheap gimmicks so he presses them into as many episodes as he can smear himself on to.