#granted that we will have more seasons

[berrystrawfanaa]

Are they holding hands at that end scene??????? Can't they get the camera down a lil bit or zoom out a little or something????

Is that too much to ask????

jk

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

At your side [End of Season 2]

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[jackwhiteprophetic]

Most joyful moments, where the entire fandom unites, are the ones where May appears in an episode for a few minutes before heading back to college.

[kats-randomology]

It was brief but ya know what its more than we've gotten of them in the last twenty years. Let's get us a season 2 and maybe we'll get to have more hinjinks (PLEASE LET THEM INTERACT WITH IREP FFS I WANT SILLY DRAMA)

[mattzerella-sticks]

We lost Madney wedding planning 😢 Henren bonding with Mara 😢😢 Bathena shenanigans with Harry (and May?) 😢😢😢 and Buck coming out to his loved ones 😢😢😢😢 by skipping to the wedding due to the shortened season.

This ain't just a fanfic gap it's a CANYON!

[thefrsers]

BATHENA CRUISE: HOW IT STARTED VS HOW IT’S GOING

[mischiefbuckley]

Okay what if we do get a Bathena Buddie parallel in this upcoming episode of Buck going with Eddie to the church like a parallel of Bobby asking Athena to go to church with him from back from season 1 after the call where Bobby breaks down from hearing the dad saying his goodbyes to his kids and that’s the scene that Oliver referenced that happens between Buck and Eddie that “speaks volumes to what the relationship between them is and how even when they don’t have to say too much to each other, the know how to be there for each other” because what if during one of the calls that the team responds to in this episode it triggers something in Eddie because we have been seeing how slowly the mask that Eddie has put up is fading away and how he can’t hold it in any longer, so what if we so get that parallel of Eddie feeling at a lost with how he feels and he can relate to one of the calls again like that parallel of Bobby hearing the man saying goodbye to his kids before he dies, but Bobby never got that goodbye with his kids, so what if we get a parallel of that with Eddie and that’s why there’s already the parallels in place with Eddie in terms of the calls the team seems to be responding to like the call of a kid being stuck in a well a callback to the “Eddie Begins” episode and where after that incident Eddie goes out of his way to legally change his will to make sure that if anything happens to him, Buck would take care of Christopher and then the other call being of a divorced man and although Eddie was never officially divorced from Shannon, she did bring up that they should get divorced after she also tells she’s not pregnant so he seeks comfort in one of the last places he would expect and he asks his best friend if he can join him because again Eddie is someone who always holds everything in until he has a breakdown and he’s never been someone who knows how to articulate how he’s feeling because he was taught as a young child to not show any emotions because he’s a man and men shouldn’t feel anything because again he was taught that he had to be the “man of the house”

[theinfinitedivides]

Bhansali really said let's shove the good freedom fighter sh*t into the last 40 or so minutes of this series i think we can get away with it. pray tell me what, exactly, did he expect me to do with that

[doctorwhoisadhd]

also i was pulling out my old spreadsheets to look for those vault facts and heres another fucking insane one that i found in a DIFFERENT spreadsheet. I once made a spreadsheet cataloguing what players had the most stars (just pitching for rotation, just batting for lineup) by season, and found that across 24 seasons there were 17 different players in the top half star.

predictably enough, the crabs were 1) the ONLY team to have more than one player ranking in the top half star on their active roster at once: crabs (nagomi mcdaniel and axel trololol, s7 and 8). and 2) the team with players ranking in the top half star on their active roster for the most consecutive seasons: crabs (4 in a row, s6–9) (the most anyone else has is 2)

but what surprised me was this: the team that had the most seasons with a player ranking in the top half star on their roster, AND the team who had the most different players ranking in the top half star? THE FRIDAYS. we had 5 different seasons where a player on our roster ranked in the top half star on our roster (beating the crabs by 1), and we had THREE different players who ranked in the top half star at the time they were on our roster (york silk, nagomi mcdaniel, and beck whitney). which is insane because the most anyone else has is 2.

[naviculariis]

We all be going through it rn huh-

[no1ryomafan]

This is such a odd thing to think about when I think of Big O but I like how despite how different season 1 and season 2 is I’ve never seen anyone in my experience argue which one was better. I’m not saying it never happened, it most certainly did at one point, I can imagine people arguing on forums when it was new back in the day that “finally the show is getting good!” or “the show sucks now” when season 2 came along but in the current moment I’ve never seen it brought up even if I know there are people who prefer season 1 over season 2 and vice versa. You never see a fandom space that is so moderately chill about difference in opinions like this and it’s honestly so refreshing.

[thetimelordbatgirl]

Learning stuff about behind the scenes of The Batman (show) really is just when seeing them not feature certain Batman villains or having to adapt Batgirl first and Robin as soon as Teen Titans was done with, just know it was likely down to the Bat Embargo.

[reserve-polarity]

speaking of Tory and nonsense happenings, why did no adult went after freshly orphaned teenage girl Tory after she stormed out of the dojo?? That was crazy, they were just like next day! moving on!! Hawk goes instead of her to Barcelona!! Like at least allude to someone checking up on her in the interim ToT

I get it all happaned this way so she can go to the Cobras and she and Sam can have a redo of their tournament match when the stakes are high but also really just about winning a competition and no judges have been paid off and it will be like closure for both of them for realsies and I am actually looking forward to that but still!! As it is shown and stands they abandoned her after one (1) grief induced lash out and even thought everyone makes mistakes and acts shitty from time to time on this show noone trying again to get throught to her feels less like that and more just convoluted to get characters in their intented posittions and so it's kind of frustrating to watch.

[12freddofrogs]

Very weird to be in that stage where a show is grabbing hold of your brain, but you haven't finished the show so you cant interact with fandom because spoilers, and you're watching it with someone else so you can't even just keep watching until you finish

[orcelito]

I always get so angry but then I play video games and I'm no longer so angry

This is a problem when it comes to wanting to leave my shit ass job

[nebulouscoffee]

Okay time for another 3am essay haha. So I've always loved Michael Burnham, but recently- while watching Disco S4 for the first time- she has truly ascended to blorbo status. Her arc is incredible, and so underrated! I think maybe the earlier seasons were a bit too focused on her connection to Spock and his family, so now that there's some distance from all that, I'm able to appreciate her diasporic experience as a child of two worlds even more? And seeing her consistently fall back on logic to reassure herself but also connecting with her crew specifically through her emotional intelligence and transparency, humanising herself but still striking the right notes of authority, all without ever raising her voice, is just- ahh it's so good. She's shaping up to being one of the coolest Star Trek captains!

After watching her big (Very Trekkian) speech in S4E7, I was tempted to go back and rewatch some of the pilot, just to see how far she'd come- and I was struck by this parallel (I haven't seen S1 since it aired in 2017, so please forgive me if I'm just pointing out the obvious hehe)

S1E1 (while trying to convince Captain Georgiou to fire at the Klingons):

BURNHAM: Captain, we have to fire on them. Hit that ship with everything we've got.  GEORGIOU: Absolutely not. They haven't powered weapons. They don't appear to pose an imminent threat.  BURNHAM: The Klingon threat is always imminent and inevitable. [...] 240 years ago, near H'Atoria, a Vulcan ship crossed into Klingon space. The Klingons attacked immediately. They destroyed the vessel. Vulcans don't make the same mistake twice. From then on, until formal relations were established, whenever the Vulcans crossed paths with Klingons, the Vulcans fired first. They said hello in a language the Klingons understood. Violence brought respect. Respect brought peace. Captain, we have to give the Klingons a Vulcan hello. GEORGIOU: If their intention is to attack, balling up our fists won't dissuade them.  BURNHAM: It would be logical for you to take into account my success rate during our seven years together, and execute my plan without further challenge before we're dragged into war.  GEORGIOU: Starfleet doesn't fire first. That's all, Number One.  BURNHAM: We have to.  GEORGIOU: In my ready room.

GEORGIOU: Computer, privacy.  BURNHAM: Captain-  GEORGIOU: How dare you challenge me?  BURNHAM: I apologise for my insubordination.  GEORGIOU: Don't you realise that kind of talk can destabilise a crew?  BURNHAM: Don't underestimate them. I've overseen their exercises. They're ready for battle.  GEORGIOU: Battle is not a simulation. It's blood and screams and funerals. I taught you better than this. We don't start shooting on a hunch, and we don't take innocent lives. Period. I understand your history with the Klingons.  BURNHAM: My commitment to this course of action is not emotional. We target its neck, cut off its head-  GEORGIOU: You're still injured. You're not thinking clearly.  BURNHAM: Thousands of lives will be lost because of failure to act.  GEORGIOU: Whose lives? Victims of your imaginary war?  BURNHAM: And your life, Captain. Yours.  GEORGIOU: Stand down, Commander Burnham. That's an order.  BURNHAM: You're right. I may not be myself.  GEORGIOU: Easy, Michael.  (She knocks Georgiou out with a Vulcan neck-pinch.)  BURNHAM: ... I'm sorry.

So this is the big event that makes Michael an infamous mutineer and kicks off the whole show. But cut to four seasons (and a thousand years) later- and she's the captain of the ship, addressing what's left of the Federation on how she thinks they should respond to a mysterious new threat (that has completely destroyed her lover's whole planet.) Much like S1 Michael, he is angry and traumatised here, and very much pushing for a preemptive strike by using the same "countless lives will be saved" argument. And against his wishes and approval, here's what she chooses to say in her speech:

BURNHAM: Our experiences shape us. That's what makes this so difficult. [...] Before we head down a path that could lead to destruction on both sides, we need to reach first for understanding. For generations, the Federation has sought out new life, new civilisations, not to destroy but to connect, even in the face of uncertainty. And we are not all Federation members, but those ideals can still guide us. Especially now. We cannot let fear define us in this moment. We need to decide. Who do we want to be? Do we lash out blindly, no matter the risk? Or do we proceed thoughtfully? Work toward the future we want to live in? I believe that's who we are. We wouldn't be here otherwise.  BOOK (in front of everyone listening): We don't have the luxury of asking philosophical questions right now. What matters is the actions we take. Stopping this thing today.  BURNHAM: There are different points of view in this room, I know. But I hope that when a decision is reached, whatever it is, that we can hold together. That we can move forward as a united front.  BOOK: Some differences are too great. Sometimes you just have to accept the consequences of that.

So obviously Michael is now in Georgiou's place- and Book is playing her old part (and pretty well, lol- the episode literally ends with him stealing a shuttle behind her back and doing what he wants, just like Micheal did in S1!) But what I find most interesting is her echoing Georgiou's philosophy in other ways, too.

S4E10 (talking to the Federation President):

BURNHAM: Thank you for sharing the news.  RILLAK: We could have told them together. Why did you want me to do it?  BURNHAM: In times of crisis, people need to know that their leaders are not rattled by uncertainty or overwhelming odds. They need to know that there is a plan, that they'll be okay. You're their president. You can give them confidence, a sense of security. You're my president, too.  RILLAK: Oh... I'm grateful we had the chance to... connect before we approach Species Ten-C.  BURNHAM: If we can't communicate with each other, what chance do we have with them? 

It really goes to show how far she's come, and how much she's benefitted from learning to accept all parts of herself- her Vulcan upbringing, her Federation ideals, her Human family, her Starfleet training, and her bonds with the crew- which are, of course, completely inextricable from her relationship with Georgiou. Instead of warring within her, these different aspects of her are now working together to make her the best possible version of herself- she's learnt both from her own mistakes, and others'. Basically- what a character!