Having Lorca on Discovery was almost like a social experiment. How long does it take for people to accept actions that they previously found unacceptable if those actions are put in a nice package, that package being Jason Isaacs. When Lorca first showed up on the show being shady and doing things that were very un-Starfleet, people immediately saw him for what he was. His character was criticized a lot. But as each episode went on, the character didn’t change at all but people softened up to him so much that last week there were tons of people mad that the show “suddenly” made him villainous. But the show didn’t suddenly do anything. The show treated the character the way it always has, like a shady person who’s probably worse than he lets on. Making Lorca a villain was barely a plot twist, it was just the culmination of the foreshadowing we got in every single episode.
