lizbee | The bits where I had to pause in this week's Discovery to have feelings (Reply)

Where the feeling in question was laughing out loud:

Culber: "You didn't do this."
Lorca: *walks in*
Culber: "Speak of the devil."

Lorca has apparently discovered that Starfleet has rules! about fraternisation and shagging fellow officers and subordinates! He had no idea!
Lorca coaching his crew of nerds on how to crash a party
Like, only days have passed since he had to train them on how to disobey orders and get away with it
NERDS.
Ash's conviction that Lorca would take him off duty if he admitted to suffering the effects of PTSD
Tilly's expression at her counterpart's appearance and hair

Where the feeling was secondhand embarrassment such that I attempted to become one with the Force:

Lorca's Scottish accent, even though I'm told it was quite good, and I've just been theorising with @poppaeasabina on Tumblr for the last few weeks that one of his mothers is an Anglo-Scot
Tilly's first attempt at impersonating her counterpart

Where the feeling was, uhhhhhhh, purely aesthetic appreciation:

Tilly's Mirror Universe uniform and hair
(Congratulations to the team for coming up with costumes which are kinky as heck but don't require the actors to squeeze into pleather catsuits or spike heels and everyone is fully dressed, men and women equally.)
(I've been meaning to do a post along the lines of Signs You Can Tell Disco Is The First Star Trek With A Female Costume Designer, this sort of fits into that theme.)
Lorca's rebel fugitive outfit
The whole, um, Burnham/Lorca thing on the bridge
I mean
You know what I mean
I'm also very into Michael's evil lipstick, that's a good colour on her

Where the feeling was, ohhhhh, show, noooooooooo:

Tyler-is-Voq stopped being funny last episode, but now it's even less funny because HUGH CULBER IS DEAD and while I named him in a meme as a character to whom I'm indifferent, it's an extremely dodgy choice Doylistically, and just sad all around
I'm reserving judgement until we see how it plays out, because GLAAD approved the plotline and everyone seems surprisingly upfront about this not being the end for Culber, but I'm displeased
And I feel like this is one of the disadvantages of having the story play out as slowly as it does -- this sort of thing (not this exact sort of thing) has happened in Star Trek before, but generally, unless you're Tasha Yar, you're okay by the time the end credits roll.

IN CONCLUSION:

Philippa Georgiou is absolutely the emperor and Michael is going to have a lot of emotions about it
I really hope we see mirror!Kat and Terral, because they're my favourite supporting characters, dammit
Why do I love Terral so much?
Maybe it's because Lorca and Cornwell invert the usual "upstanding captain, shady admiral" schtick (#justice for alynna necheyev), but Lorca and Terral invert the other cliche, "sensible captain, unreasonable admiral".
My actual proper thoughts will go up on my blog on Thursday, I just needed to throw some things at the internet early.