Mirrors

Mirrors is enjoyable enough to get to the next stage of the mcguffin and provide some decent Breen related backstory. For me the Moll and L'ak flashbacks are on par with most Star Trek attempts at romance. I think the key to this episode is being interested in them as characters and their relationship, but unfortunately I struggle to invest.

The main sci-fi action plot is reasonably good, with some decent moment, particularly on Discovery with Rayner in command. However, when Burnham is part of an away team in danger plot, there is no suspense as you know she's going to come through it fine. These are the types of story that would fair better if less prominent members of the crew were involved to give some uncertainty.

The previous episode was watchable. Who thought this was a good episide to ever air? We don't care about these lame villains so there's no reason to humanize them. They aren't romantic, they aren't interesting. Such a boring episode. Why does Booker have to make stupid psycho social speeches now too? I swear they named her moll in order to steal some emotional gravitas from Inception. This show is so lazy. So trivial. So bad. This episode is made worse by the middling quality of the previous episode. This show can't end soon enough and if they even attempt to bring any of these characters anywhere I will vomit.

Imagine trying to enjoy an episode if you can't see more than half of it. Most of this episode happens on an old ship that's having power fluctuations or something so the lights are flashing and flickering constantly. I can't watch flashing effects due to disabilities, so my husband watched while I listened with my hand over my eyes. Not a fun time. A warning at the beginning just tells me the makers of Discovery don't care about viewers with disabilities. It's frustrating. They could have just dimmed the lights or had them flash slowly, less brightly, so it would be accessible. So many shows do this, and it sucks.