Just have to rant a bit. Started watching this last month; just finished episode 13. I wasn't a big fan from the beginning, but figured I'd keep an open mind. Oh, and spoilers throughout, so if you haven't seen it and actually want to, don't read further. Some DS9 spoilers also.
Imagine if you were watching Star Trek: The Next Generation, and then about halfway through Season 2, you find out that Captain Picard has been an evil imposter the entire time, and then shortly after you find this out, he dies. Sounds pretty dumb, huh? You might think "but hey, 13 episodes into season 1 isn't the same as halfway through season 2!" But it is if you consider the total percentage of episodes that had gone by. Discovery isn't 7 years of full 25 episode seasons. It's 5 years of 10-15 episode seasons. By the time you find this out, the show is basically 1/5 over. Deep Space Nine had a rather great arc where you find out that a few characters including Julian have actually been changelings for the past few episodes. That's a twist that actually works quite well. The real Julian is still there, captured and working to escape. The fact that their primary enemy had the ability to infiltrate them in exactly that manner was well-established. That didn't just take a primary character and say that this character was never even this character the whole time you knew him!
Star Trek has never really had just 1 main character, but if you did have to pick one from any series, the answer would be The Captain. And while Discovery never tried to pretend that Lorca was the main character, he was still The Captain, and this was supposed to matter. But no, who cares. Apparently captains are about as replaceable as a Red Shirt. There never even really was a captain! And if that's not bad enough, they did basically the same thing twice within a couple episodes, by also saying that Tyler was never Tyler the whole time we've seen him, he's actually Klingon in disguise.
It's super hard to actually like or care about any of the characters if they're willing to just do stuff like that.
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Finished season 1. What surprised me more than it should is just how much like Picard this was. I know it's a lot of the same people making both, but man. Aside from the very distinct visual look that they shared, the overall season plot went much the same way. Both were something of a season-long arc, yet one that didn't actually start until a few episodes in. And then, the arc ends in the second-to-last episode, and suddenly the final episode is about something different. And then the next season is (presumably since I haven't started it yet), a whole different and unrelated thing.