Michael Burnham Is The Protagonist

(Imagine the clapping hands emoji between each word.)

(Or, "ensemble cast" is starting to sound a lot like a dog whistle.)

I tweeted on Sunday:

Funny thing: now Isaacs is definitely out of the show for realsies, the guys who insisted Lorca was the main character in Disco are now saying it's an ensemble series, and asking why Sonequa Martin-Green gets so much press.
5:01 pm - 22 Jul 2018

And followed up:

*chinhands*

I am quite certain they wouldn't have this problem if Michael was played by a white woman.
5:02 pm - 22 Jul 2018

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I need my Disco fix badly enough that I lurk around corners of the internet like Reddit, and I've seen this enough that I actually recoiled when I read Tom and Lorenzo saying, "...we’re struck by how fun this all looks and by how much the rest of the ensemble is being punched up a bit, making this seem slightly less like The Michael Burnham Story and a bit more like a classic Star Trek show."

See also: literally any journalist, blogger or below-the-lines commenter who describes Anson Mount as "the new lead".

( Spoilers, I guess, and also ranting. )