It is what it is. held together by duct tape and threadbare storytelling and one last hallway shootout.

Nostalgia is a hell of a drug and it couldn’t really save this one.

As it stands, ignoring the novels retcon, does it outperform “These are the Voyages”, which also used some Enterprise-D flashbacks in it?

Oh I thought my answer was gonna be yes but I’m just…..

maybe by a nose, its better than that. This season was a mess again that didn’t really know what it wanted, invested heavily in tropes and wanted a shootout a minute from the looks of it. All those scenes on M'Talas Prime, wasted potential of the Changelings (oh we fixed that. we got the transporters fixed), the omission of Laris in the finale when they made sure to put her in the season premiere.

Not to mention the Borg, oh the Borg. one transwarp hub down out of six and one dead queen is all it takes apparently.

In a way the closing scene of this season’s Mandalorian and Picard reflect a poor attempt to reach an endgoal by some of the worst possible means. Those closing scenes are good but unearned.

And, this goes back to TNG-era Trek, Star Trek can’t envision civilian life in these models. Everyone has to join Starfleet, we cant have any main civilian characters.

After listening too to Matalas on Gates’ pod I have a feeling that we’re trapped in another cycle of trying to Star-Wars-ify Trek, and the Trench run sorta reinforced that.

I think that’s all I got tonight.

I liked it. I think it lost steam like 40 minutes in, formulaic yes, but good turn your brain off entertainment.

OH yes, I answered in ask or submission of my own. tumblr probably swallowed it. So I don’t have Hulu and I was going what other people were telling me but its possible it hasn’t be updated there either. In which case the hd upscales are only available on bluray on bluray rips….

good, good! 

Originally posted by starwarsfilms

I skipped a few episodes here and there this time, I fully intend to catch up where I left off a couple of years ago and finish this massive rewatch.

It depends, some people love s1 some hate it, i still say its essential viewing,you’re building a universe from the ground up. there’s some really important table setting,character development and plot that’s all there in s1

also the HBO seasons don’t include the prequel movie (the gathering) the 4-5 other movies that were made during the final season.

its so much more serialized too that yeah you might miss something.

It’s all over the place, there some good moments but a lot of just confusing ones. Kind of a train wreck really but you also can’t quite look away. Alexander Skarsgard isn’t as good as I’d hoped as Randall Flagg (although that just might be this episode. Frannie’s a non-entity (although there wasn’t that much there in the 94 adaptation either) and it takes a couple of episodes for Stu to really shine. Harold, Nick, and Tom Cullen all seem to have been given more thought. 

The first four episodes are also mostly flashbacks of the main characters with boulder framing story so it really doesn’t have any momentum until last week. Despite the flashbacks its also a lot less travelogue-y than the 94 one.

If there’s nothing else on right now I’d say go ahead a binge it just for the sheer lunacy of trying to push a deadly flu pandemic story during covid. There’ll be things to like for sure. This show’s also halfway thru so you could wait another month and binge it then.

Oh I’ve been feeling burned out by the sheer volume of MCU stuff slated to come out. I also mistook the Black Widow movie for a series so no I can wait for that on digital too. I still haven’t watched the last Spider Man movie (I’ll get around to it soon)

I think so, but it took a while for me to get into it and I’m still behind. There’s some good and bad. The animation style is a bit off putting at first (just like it took getting used to Rebels after Clone Wars). Kaz, the main guy, is almost a carbon copy of Ezra, but more pilot no force (so far) and just as single brain-celled. I think they hoped the dynamics that formed in Rebels would immediately follow in Resistance and that hasn’t quite been the case. The scope is narrow: an assignment on an unaligned, out of the way platform and do recon. You do get some Poe Dameron, Captain Phasma and the Starkiller Base (this is again a prequel series). BB8 is fine as a droid companion, Neeku an alien that takes everything literally can be grating sometimes, and there’s the rest of the pit crew, the platform commander and his daughter, pirates, and so on. 

For now I’m sticking with it.