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Re: DSC S3: Su'Kal

Quote from the review: "We once again reduce a massive galactic crisis down to a one-character play, which feels way out of scale compared to the consequences."

There have been stories where things were presented in such a way to show the viewer a character's warped perspective on his/her reality. Sometimes this is done in a blindingly obvious way (think children's cartoons depicting a characters fantasies.) and sometimes it's done in a less obvious way (I believe DS9 and TNG did this a few times) but it is made pretty clear at the episode's onset.

I think there two general possibilites here broadly speaking, on one extreme the writers have absolutely no idea of what they are doing and presenting us with poorly written drivel. On the other extreme, they may have written a for more clever and subtle story than we expected and therefore fail to look deeper into any deeper meanings hidden in the story. The latter of course brings with it the risk of seeing things that aren't there and misinterpreting the intent behind the story. E.g., mere entertainment instead of some hidden message.

As the saying (in Dutch at least) goes, the truth is probably somewhere in the middle.