I definitely had mixed feelings about the finale. I thought it was a good episode, and I love alternate timelines and characters getting to see what would have happened if they'd made different choices... but I also don't think we need yet another version of Kirk (or Spock, though that ship sailed a while ago I guess), and I want to see that level of care and in-depth exploration being put in for our new characters too. We barely even saw anything of anybody who wasn't Pike, Spock or Kirk in that finale.
I do think that Discovery's done a decent job of balancing the old and the new for the most part - Michael is very much her own character, and the show is very much her story and not Spock's. Season 2 maybe leaned a little too much into the nostalgia, but even then I was more annoyed with the fandom suddenly wanting to make everything about Pike and Spock than with how the show itself handled it. But I was very unhappy with Picard dumping almost all of its new characters to make room for a TNG reunion, and don't want to see SNW going in a similar direction.
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I do think that Discovery's done a decent job of balancing the old and the new for the most part - Michael is very much her own character, and the show is very much her story and not Spock's. Season 2 maybe leaned a little too much into the nostalgia, but even then I was more annoyed with the fandom suddenly wanting to make everything about Pike and Spock than with how the show itself handled it. But I was very unhappy with Picard dumping almost all of its new characters to make room for a TNG reunion, and don't want to see SNW going in a similar direction.