OBSESS-Archive

Ok so if Blizzard is making a concerted effort to get me to dislike Vendetta, they did a great job with the latest Overwatch cinematic. I already had a mild disinterest when they added her to the playable roster a few weeks back, but having her initiate a hostile takeover of Talon at the cost of Doomfist threw her into the immediate "concentrated dislike" column. Add to that her new alliance with another character I'm already immediately repulsed by - Vishkar's bougie corpo techbra Domina - and I'm already certain I'll be siding with Overwatch when we're picking sides in the new season. At least some of my old-guard Talon faves - Reaper, Widowmaker, Sombra - are saying "yeahnah" to Vendetta and hitting the bricks, even though my support main, Moira, is sticking around...but that's no shock as her loyalty can be bought by anyone willing to fund her research. Looks like next season will see a lot more Orisa on my side of things

So I'm really a bit taken aback by how much I like the new Starfleet Academy series - the Discovery timeline was always just sort of "okay" for me (although Strange New Worlds is definitely the best thing we got out of it imo), but this new series hits me pretty well in most of the right Trek places. Lura Thok and SAM stand out as favorites so far (the concept of a whole colony of holographic sentients is so far out there I'm intrigued), and of course seeing a link to the past with Robert Picardo's EMH and the always watchable Paul Giamatti chewing up every scene he's in is likely going to have me pretty invested in this season. Also, can I just comment on how gorgeous the USS Athena is? I was never really sold on the 32nd century Trek designs but this one has my attention. I'll be interested to see if the momentum sticks, but so far I'm pretty drawn in - and these days that takes some doing.