OK, so you are the evil Emperor, you've just found out that your fiercest enemy has returned from the dead and has managed to board your planet-sized space ship. For some reason, you have his entire army held prisoner in individual agony booths, all together in the same chamber of the ship.
What do you do?
Well, you certainly don't leave the members of that army alive, those soldiers in their battle gear, their weapons still handy and that chamber lightly guarded, that's for sure.
What? You do?
Oh, yes, of course. You use that army as bait. You make it appear that they are all in a single chamber, that they are all still alive and ready for battle, that the chamber is lightly guarded, as a trap to lure your enemy into the arms of a waiting force of overwhelming numbers, weapons and training. Great idea. Perfect plan.
What? That's not what you do?
You sit on your bridge, killing off your leadership council, trading witticisms with your long lost adopted daughter, and leave the enemy army so readily armed and available for your greatest rival to set free and then set upon you?
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OMG that's bad writing. Come on, Discovery writers, get real. Take some time to have your plots make sense, have powerful people make powerful, intelligent decisions. Don't just ignore obvious plot gaps and character problems and hope we don't notice them!
Sure, the Emperor probably enjoyed torturing the enemy army for the past 18 months but would she really have kept all of them alive? Would she keep them all on her own ship? Would she only torture them a little bit so that, when they are rescued by Lorax, they emerge from the agony booths in great physical and mental shape, ready and able to fight at a high level? Would she FEED them well?
And how is that you can have fire fight after fire fight, killing just about everyone in the room, and the four major characters (Emperor, Burnham, Lorax and Security Chief), who are LEADING the rival armies, all manage to survive every fire fight?
There's a lot to like about Discovery, at least visually, but the writing is significantly subpar. It's lazy writing, and that's the worst kind of writing. Sure, it's fine for blogs that you just dash out in a twenty-minute period. But for a epic television series that has been years in the making? Awful.
