Comment on The Official Teaser Trailer for Star Trek: Section 31 Is Here
halm@leminal.space 4 months ago
Look, I’ll watch Michelle Yeoh in almost anything, including this, but I can’t get past the fact that they’re using “genocidal tyrant” as shorthand for “lovable badass” to characterise Georgiou. It was a glaring problem in Disco, and it continues to be so here.
“But, but… She redeemed herself!” Nope, you don’t get to pull that card for a character who “murdered her own people by the millions”. There is just no coming back from that.
ValueSubtracted@startrek.website 4 months ago
From the trailer, I don’t get the impression that they’re trying to come back from it - rather, they’re leaning in to it.
halm@leminal.space 4 months ago
Yes, exactly. So they’re either playing the redemption angle (which I don’t buy) or they’re just going “Massacres! They’re wholesome!” (which is plain terrible and I don’t see Yeoh going for it).
ValueSubtracted@startrek.website 4 months ago
I’ve said elsewhere in the thread that I think there’s a difference between redemption and atonement - I had the impression from the season 3 two-parter that they’d be taking the latter route with Georgiou. I think that could be really interesting, should they go in that direction.
This teaser really didn’t provide any information as to whether they will, though.
halm@leminal.space 4 months ago
I missed that comment, but I still think it’s a matter of semantics between atonement and redemption. In Disco the rest of the characters just shrugged it off with a “she was a mass murderer, but she was our mass murderer”, and I find it rather disturbing that the franchise runners seem to do the same.
Like I said, Michelle Yeoh is a treasure, but the character of mirror Georgiou has been dialed up to maximum evil yet she’s played for comic relief?