This show thinks it's a lot cleverer than it is. This episode might have been OK if it actually was as clever as it thinks it is, but as it stands it's all style and no substance. The mirror universe is still cool - even the gold uniforms are growing on me - but basically nothing happens. Nothing we didn't know was going to happen as of the end of the last episode, anyway.
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| Why do evil empires always look so cool? |
Michael and Lorca travel with emperor Michelle Yeoh back to her space-castle, and we find out that evil-Michael was the adopted daughter of evil-Yeoh, which is pretty standard mirror universe stuff. Similar to the regular universe but different, you know. There's a really dumb bit where Yeoh tells Michael to pick one of three Kelpiens and she picks mirror-Saru, even though it's really, really obvious that this was not going to be a good thing. He ends up being killed and served to Yeoh and Michael for dinner, which is really just too much to take seriously. Oh, they're not just evil, they don't just torture and enslave, they literally eat people now. Sure. Cool.
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| I wasn't kidding about the space-castle. |
So Michael and Yeoh chat over dinner and Yeoh realises that Michael is lying to her, so she decides to execute her. But then just before the execution, Michael comes clean about being from the other universe. So then Yeoh doesn't kill her and they kind of start working together - she gets Michael to trust her by making the argument that since the other Yeoh was honourable, this version must be too, which is just a terrible argument but Michael seems to buy it.
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| Also Yeoh killed everyone who heard the thing about the other universe. |
Michael wants to free Lorca immediately, but Yeoh's all like "yeah nah, people are the same in both universes and my Lorca was a shithead who turned my Michael against me so yours probably is too". So they talk about that for a minute and Michael realises that Lorca has actually been evil-Lorca this whole time. And even if you didn't already think of this, it can't have been much of a surprise given how he seemed to have deliberately brought them to the mirror universe and he's just been generally sus the whole time.
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| They're pretty much just acting like friends now. |
Meanwhile, Lorca has been putting his Robot Devil calibre plan into effect. See, he wanted to be a captive on board the emperor's space-castle so that a guard whose sister he previously did some wrong to would come and try to get some revenge, giving him an opportunity to escape. I'm guessing that the fact that a bunch if his old followers are also prisoners here is also somehow part of his ludicrously contrived plan.
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| Part of the plan involved this guy getting exploded. |
Also this episode, fungus-guy woke up (and so did his evil twin), and something happened with the security guy/Klingon. Confirmed that it is the albino Klingon somehow turned into a human, but I think maybe he's stuck human now? I don't know, it's very dumb. Oh, and apparently there's something wrong with the fugnus network, and evil-fungus-guy did it. Somehow. And now he's woken up I guess he's going to make it worse? I don't really care.
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| And Dr Boyfriend's ghost is in the fungus network somehow? |
So like I said, we got confirmation of some things that had been very strongly hinted at, but nothing much actually happened in this episode. And what did happen was dumb. So after two hits we can chalk up another miss, in my opinion. Things are not looking great for this show.
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| I honestly thought they were going to kiss in this scene. |
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