I'm thinking this show may actually be a bit too corny to take seriously...

Hear me out, I'm on the first episode of Season II, and have been feeling smug and superior far too often than is normal...this writing is off, I think. I'm not really as smart as all that.

Alright, so Burnham ejects from her little shuttle mid-flight, catches the captain mid-air and they're both hurtling towards this little meteor they'd come to explore. They're going to land HARD if something doesn't happen soon to correct their velocity. The ship is hailing her, they want to know she landed safely. Everybody's in suspense, "Burnham, do you copy? DO YOU COPY??"

A nice fat, prolongued silence follows, filled with a bunch of pinched faces on the bridge, exchanging worried glances. A little more silence for good measure...before finally, the dramatically triumphant "Discovery this is Burnham...we have touchdown!" rings out. Boom, everyone breaks out in applause, celebrating the moment...and the music swells to a crescendo, OMG they're alive, they made it! Hoorah!
And suddenly...you realize that holy hell, we're supposed to be having a moment here. Oh..my bad, I didn't...I honestly expected a "Yeah we're okay" response, not this...whole dramatic thing that suddenly erupted here...where'd that come from?

Because at that point, we'd already seen that they'd made it. We saw her thrusters engage at the very last moment...before being taken to the bridge and having to wait around for the crew to realize it too.
The previous scene's tension had already been released...we knew they were alive. With her dramatic "Eagle has landed" the subsequent cheering and swell of music, it was obvious that we were supposed to be experiencing it with the crew, but the only thing we had to celebrate in that moment was that, oh good, the crew doesn't have to worry unnecessarily anymore. Good for them. Check it out again, around 37:00...its palpably awkward and an example of bad editing/story-boarding, IMO.

Okay, so moments later and they're exploring the ruins of a starship that'd crashed there some ten months prior. Suddenly they're met with a hovering drone, through which they hear the sound of a human voice, its a survivor...and she's using the drone to lead them to where she's at in the wreckage. And then there she is...a gangly woman hunched over some project she's working on, tinkering, tinkering. They introduce themselves to her as Starfleet and she replies something about having seen the insignia already or she'd have probably vaporized them already.

There's no emotion here at all, this is a very standard meet and greet. She's calm and casual enough to be that dock worker on Law & Order SVU, who's been interrupted at work to answer some questions about a suspect and won't stop stacking those damn crates.

Except..this woman has literally been stranded on a rock for the last ten months...on the outskirts of space. She's had no way of knowing if she'd ever see another living soul before running out of supplies or whatever. She'd have had ten months to consider the prospect of succumbing to possibly the loneliest death imaginable, knowing she'd be swallowed by the inky blackness of eternity itself and wholly forgotten forever. How small she must have felt..how alone!
And now she's suddenly not...and boy she sure could go for a decent pastrami. No, she never asks, but it'd fit right in if she did. Did anyone happen to bring one? "Its been forevah!" She'd say.

Listen, I don't expect an Interstellar level of Matt Damon blubbering here, but she's JUST found out that she's avoided a fate that's literally too horrific to fully imagine and there is absolutely nothing. Zero.

JUST got done sloppily shoe-horning in a moment, then went straight to deflating what could have otherwise been one hell of a moment. Anyone else notice this?
I don't remember seeing much of this in the first season...is the second just...not as good, maybe?

Maybe I'm missing something here?