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Michael Burnham vacillating wildly between melodramatic mid-episode speeches and crying fits has nothing to do with Gene's vision.
It's just bad writing, and I don't need to support it just because it's wearing a Star Trek Edgar suit.
No you don't need to support it. But you also don't need to outright lie like this either.
Stop making shit up or trying to rewrite what happened. Base your criticism off of reality instead of an opinion that you watched on YouTube.
She showed emotion and strength, heavy past trauma, and the will and capacity to work through them.
But yeah, let’s prefer the old patriarcal "deny anything that just happened because it would show weakness" approach from the 50’s.
Yeah, I feel like Michael’s arc somehow went completely many people’s heads. She’s not emotionally volatile for no reason. She’s relearning to process her emotions after their development was arrested by ill-advised Vulcan parenting before she had a chance to process her grief.
There were examples of bad writing to be found in Discovery (as in every other Trek), but Micheal being an emotional wreck wasn’t one of them.
Congratulations on having a functioning brain cell. It's staggering how few Trekkies seem to have any left. I've also rewatched it recently and she does not cry that often. It's like 6 times in total over 5 seasons. People calling that over-emotional are people who, as you pointed out, did not understand her character at all. That and a heavy dose of misogny. Pretty much every other character was fairly emotional too in certain cases but those characters get praised for the strength of overcoming it.
The second that Discovery went serial instead of episodic, it absolutely broke peoples brains. They apparently have literally no media comprehension abilities and only liked TNG and VOY because it (as much as I love it) stuffed the lesson down your throat every episode because it had to. Syndication.
If I have to hear one more fuckwit say how it isn't hopeful or optimistic I'm just going to beat them over the head with a book of media theory.