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.
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.