For all the time that they spend on the love triangle, it still manages to feel weirdly rushed at the same time. I mean, given that they've spent a whole episode on this nonsense, it feels a little odd they didn't spend even a reaction shot in the previous episode, where memories are lost and only feelings remain. Not that I'm complaining that the triangle *didn't* intrude, but still. Timing feels odd.
Speaking of which, I do wonder if they're going somewhere with Ortegas possibly being more into her friendship with Chapel than Christine is. Last week, they had amnesiac Ortegas definitely recognise Chapel, but Chapel kind of only seemed to look blankly back, and this week it kind of felt like Ortegas was more into the crazy shenanigans for Christine, as opposed to Christine being in them for Spock, and Uhura seemingly there for adventure and the chance to save someone (and possibly for chaos). I don't think there's anything romantic there, but I wouldn't mind if it got addressed at some point. I mean, we've repeatedly seen Ortegas there for Christine, but never really the other way around.
I can buy the kiss? I think it's a horrifically bad idea that the show doesn't really have the bandwidth to handle and should almost certainly detonate messily in fairly close order, but I do buy it, given the day Spock had just had. (At least from his end - what the hell Christine is thinking, I'm not entirely sure.) I do agree that T'Pring is entirely too good for Spock, though, and he treated her awfully this episode.
I also wasn't particularly fond of the scene where Chapel was trying to get the aliens' help to change Spock back, either. I hate it when a guy makes a girl's problems all about him, and apparently I'm not particularly fond of the reverse either. It felt really icky to have Chapel talk about this fundamental violation of Spock, and have her break it down into how it made her feel. I... That really hits the trans-adjacent feels for me, you know? (Involuntarily bodily change to fit someone else's aesthetics etc and so forth.)
Ugh.
The worst part is that - given they're trying to cleave to canon - they're going to have to have at least one more episode of this nonsense, since Spock needs to get back with T'Pring (somehow) and presumably break up with Chapel.
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Date: 2023-07-16 04:31 pm (UTC)Speaking of which, I do wonder if they're going somewhere with Ortegas possibly being more into her friendship with Chapel than Christine is. Last week, they had amnesiac Ortegas definitely recognise Chapel, but Chapel kind of only seemed to look blankly back, and this week it kind of felt like Ortegas was more into the crazy shenanigans for Christine, as opposed to Christine being in them for Spock, and Uhura seemingly there for adventure and the chance to save someone (and possibly for chaos). I don't think there's anything romantic there, but I wouldn't mind if it got addressed at some point. I mean, we've repeatedly seen Ortegas there for Christine, but never really the other way around.
I can buy the kiss? I think it's a horrifically bad idea that the show doesn't really have the bandwidth to handle and should almost certainly detonate messily in fairly close order, but I do buy it, given the day Spock had just had. (At least from his end - what the hell Christine is thinking, I'm not entirely sure.) I do agree that T'Pring is entirely too good for Spock, though, and he treated her awfully this episode.
I also wasn't particularly fond of the scene where Chapel was trying to get the aliens' help to change Spock back, either. I hate it when a guy makes a girl's problems all about him, and apparently I'm not particularly fond of the reverse either. It felt really icky to have Chapel talk about this fundamental violation of Spock, and have her break it down into how it made her feel. I... That really hits the trans-adjacent feels for me, you know? (Involuntarily bodily change to fit someone else's aesthetics etc and so forth.)
Ugh.
The worst part is that - given they're trying to cleave to canon - they're going to have to have at least one more episode of this nonsense, since Spock needs to get back with T'Pring (somehow) and presumably break up with Chapel.