Klanky

Fair point. I'm sure my thoughts on this episode will soften over time (they always do), but I think my dislike of both the character of Tarima and the way she is played are making it hard for me to be invested in her story lines.

I was wondering about her socialization as well, although I guess the Doctor/The Makers could have created an entire holographic world for her. But then imagine the trauma of all your childhood friends and memories being 'fake', so I don't know if that would be good either!

Maybe it was because of Mary Wiseman, but for some reason this felt like a Discovery episode, and not in a good way. I liked Tilly on Discovery, but here she just annoyed me for some reason, felt very smug in all her dealings with the cadets.

I agree that I felt this was the weakest. This felt like actors writing an episode for actors about the healing power of ACTING! Just...calm down and see a real mental health professional. Caleb and Tarima have negative chemistry, and I wish the writers would stop trying to make that happen, but here we are. The stuff with SAM was great and should have been the A-plot. Overall I'm still liking the show but this week was a slog.