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Lonely Planet West Coast Australia

Lonely Planet, Steve Waters, Brett Atkinson and Kate Armstrong

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Cheap Flights Finder - Air Plane Tickets, Specials & Last Minute Deals - Loco

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Eleanor (1463 KP) rated Star Trek: Discovery - Season 2 in TV

May 28, 2019 (Updated May 28, 2019)

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Some strong characters

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Fall off in form - more of a set up for Season 3....

I enjoyed the first series of this Trek spin off so went into season 2 hoping for a lot. It managed to tackle some of the troublesome storylines but it felt like the characters had lost some of the punchyness that made the first series shine.

In this series we get a lot of Spock (not entirely sold on the acting of Ethan Peck) who must face his past along with his estranged sister Michael Burnham. As well as Captain Pike (played very well by Anson Mount) taking control of Discovery to investigate a series of odd red signals that have being appearing across the universe.

Stories involving time travel are often problematic and unlike the Series 1 mirror universe storyline the time travel aspect in this was clumsy. The AI threat was also not that thrilling for me and left too many questions unanswered.

There seemed to be a much more mopy, exploring feelings and relationships, feel to this series that I think that let it down. The action was great but characters seemed to feel it was necessary to have a heart to heart in the middle of a time critical mission - GET ON WITH IT FFS!!!