im human i swear

This episode was a whole lot of nothing, so I don't really have much to say about it. It was fine, just... Boring. I don't feel like we learned anything new about the characters, and the horror elements weren't particularly scary or creepy to me. It also kinda frustrated me that we never found out what was going on. I know that that was kind of the point, but I don't think it worked for me, because the episode wasn't interesting enough on its own. It just felt so empty of any actually new or interesting ideas. I understand what they were going for and I appreciate the character moments, but it was all just kinda obvious. At least it wasn't a frustrating episode like the last one.

Pike remains stupid tho. Also I'm starting to get sick of him just sweeping everything under the rug. "Starfleet doesn't have to know about this... I'll leave it out of the report." I know it's necessary sometimes to avoid consequences of episodes which go off the rails like this, but it's being overused. I feel like there should be some consequences sometimes.

I liked that we got to see Sam again ^⁠_⁠^ (kinda).