Story: Terra Firma, Part 2
In the end, while she tries her best to showcase the mercy she learned from the Prime universe, in the end the Terran element yields the same result: she ends up killing her daughter (Mirror Burnham). And while she lay dying from the wounds Mirror Burnham laid into her, in the hands of Mirror Saru who she helped save by admitting that he will survive that disease he thought would make him into food...she wakes back up in the Prime Universe, lying in the snow with Burnham and Carl. And here Carl makes it clear it was all a test. She had to showcase whether or not she was still the same evil Terran or whether she had changed before Carl could send her somewhere she could survive. Who is Carl anyway? Oh he's the Guardian of Forever! Huzzah references. Granted, what they made the Guardian into was at the very least interesting and weird.
Written By: Kalinda Vazquez
Series: Star Trek: Discovery
Year: 2020
Georgiou's misadventures in trying to course correct her own past in the Mirror Universe and with her version of Burnham continue. Here she tortures Mirror Burnham until she re-pledges her allegiance to the Empress and takes down so many of the co-conspirators. It's an episode that is really all about who Georgiou was and who she currently is. While Evil Georgiou has spent some time over the last two and a half seasons in the Prime Universe, she has spent most of it making cutting snarky remarks about how being evil is so much more fun and every now and then she is giving a moment to look somewhat meaningfully to the side, indicating maybe she isn't all bad. For me, I have found her nothing but irritating since leaving her proper Universe.
The Guardian says that in helping the Kelpian, she has proven she is maybe worth saving after all and it finds a place for her to go, somewhere in the past (in the Prime timeline presumably), where her body won't break down for being too out of sync with the Mirror Universe. At the very least she has finally been written out of the show. It may be well past her welcome, but at least it is finally done. Now she can go live bitterly ever after in this alleged spin-off I have absolutely no interest in ever watching.
Good riddance to this character. She served little
purpose to me for so long, and Burnham's constant longing for her to be the person
she failed so long ago never resonated with me. This Georgiou didn't do enough to show change to make her worthwhile. The occasional moment where she would seem to have some kind of soft spot would ALWAYS get undercut with snark. Burnham constantly seemed to be looking for some sort of approval from this woman only because she happened to look and sound like her dead mentor. It always seemed odd that they never explored out how wrongheaded this relationship was.
The ending of this episode where EVERYONE eulogizes her rang especially hollow to me. She was horrible and nasty to almost everyone. The only thing she ever did was kick a robot into a magnet, thus negating their entire purpose for being in the future they now find themselves stuck in. Why would they now all act as if she was an important part of their lives, or one they'd even miss? At least with the bullshit Ariam funeral where they pretended she had an actual character you can at least play along and think "sure she was a crewmember on this ship! I'm sure she had friends" even if it was frustrating that the show itself never did anything to build these relationships before the funeral scene...but here? They've actually spent plenty of time showing her being this horrible monster to all of them, and now they are holding a glass to her and saying "won't it be a shame that this unkind jerk is gone now?"
At any rate...I'm glad she is gone. I think it is safe to say that I will be hard pressed to actually watch any of whatever her spin-off ends up being.
NEXT TIME: The Khi'eth
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