THIS SHOW IS STARTING TO SUCK REALLLLLLY QUICK! Remove Kwan's side story and every other side story and focus on master chief's story. People watch halo to watch master chief, not all these dumb ass side stories.
Kwan: Take the helmet off, they'll notice you. Kid takes helmet off and holds it. There is no way they can see the helmet when he is holding it....... dumb.
I do not like the "new" cortana. Stop fixing shit that ain't broke.
Unimpressed with the "build up" to the covenant attack. THIS ALL SEEMS SO DAM CHEESY!
MASTER CHIEF SHOULD HAVE NEVER TAKEN HIS HELMET OFF!
Dam Liberal Hollywood has to make every white role an ethnic one. So old!
@finfan I really liked this episode. It was nice to see the training of Wesley. As a Star Wars fan, it was something I wanted to see in the Prequels: watching Anakin make difficult choices during his training at the Jedi Academy. Choices that change a person.
I also liked the fact that this episode was about choices. For Wesley and Picard.
The news that something is wrong in Starfleet was interesting. I hope the writers had the chance to develop the issue.
@finfan I finished Season 2. I preferred Season 1, but I can tell the production quality is usually good. The story are complex enough for a series of that age and I always feel I am in space with the crew.
Already started Season 3 and I can tell the production value is increasing.
My personal awards for S2:
Favourite episodes: 2x08 A Matter of Honor and 2x15 Pen Pals
Favourite aliens: The Borgs... but I don't know if we can call them aliens.
Favourite guest stars: Nikki Cox (Sarjenka from 2x15 Pen Pals), Suzie Plakson (K'Ehleyr from 2x20 The Emissary), Jaime Hubbard (Salia from 2x10 The Dauphin).
Favourite holodeck moments: Worf's rite of passage from 2x14 Icarus
Favorite moment: Riker confronting the Klingons in 2x08 A Matter of Honor
Funniest moment: Wesley asks Riker and Guinan how to deal with the girl he likes (2x10 The Dauphin)
Best story I wanted as a prominent subject: Time issues in 2x13 Time Squared
I haven't watched 2x12 The Royale, 2x18 Up the Long Ladder, 2x19 Manhunt and 2x22 Shades of Gray. I'll try to get to them eventually.
@finfan I admired Picard in the first season thanks to his ability to confront others. He is very good with aliens too.
The Nagilum character was interesting, but I was hoping for a more scientific mystery, maybe investigating a wormhole or something like that, instead of having another superior entity to defeat somehow.
Good episode, though.
Oh no, we lost 11% of our energy reserves! Janeway's gotta give up coffee to save power, but using the holodeck is totally fine? (And apparently even more fine when that figure doubles.)
Convenient that Chakotay happens to have his medicine bundle even though his ship was destroyed in Caretaker, isn't it? I don't remember the Maquis crew members exactly getting a chance to salvage their belongings before that Kazon ship took their shuttle in the flank…
Based on the deck layout in Star Trek: Voyager: Elite Force, Neelix turns left out of the mess hall right into a dead-end when he's heading off to argue with Janeway. Turning left got him out of the shot faster, I guess.
Someone in effects should have checked the script. Those nucleonic beams were very much not parallel to the ship's central axis.
OK, nitpicks aside, I'm of two minds on this episode.
On the one hand, it does a lot of great work establishing elements of the series that I really do love (if only for nostalgic reasons, in some cases). We get a hint of the Doctor becoming more independent ("A hologram that programs himself…"). We get jokes about Neelix's cooking. Tom is already establishing himself as a holodeck wizard of sorts (even if he does write his female characters like a chauvinist).
But we also get some of the bullshit. The whole premise is just a bit hokey, and the Neelix/Kes relationship is all the more awkward when you start the series already knowing that she's two years old and will be dead by age ten. (That kiss? So uncomfortable.)
Still, Voyager was my first Trek show. I can't help but like it despite myself.
This is going to be a critically acclaimed movie and even though I got to high five Tom Hanks at the TIFF premier I’m going to say it was just okay. Early tugs on the heart strings for the opening and closing MrRoger’s scene but the rest of the story was predictable. Why not tell Fred Roger’s story? Why can’t it be a story about a good man who gave to his community and what that meant in his life? To his family and to,his coworkers? Why did it have to be about yet another disfunctional guy that hates his father? It was okay. I’m glad I went for free.
Maybe I'm too hung up on little details like Georgiou stopping the data transfer but conveniently leaving that button in the exact same place for anyone else to press it later (and thus resume the data transfer), instead of just taking it with her or destroying it... But, seriously, fuck this show. It was always a bad Star Trek show, but it used to be a good sci-fi one. Now it's not even the latter.
Begins well, with a strong sense of mystery and some decent camerawork. Sadly, it falls apart around the midway point, and leads the viewer down too many blind alleys.
The very end is a little disappointing. Nancy didn't wind up with who wanted her with. While the kids got over 11's sacrifice a little too quickly.
The show is like a book I couldn't put down. But I think the end could have been better. Hopefully there's a season 2 to give answers about what we were left with.
11 some how communicating with Mike is what I expected but
instead we got left with it being teased that I guess Will has monster slugs in him. Which could have even taken over his body.
That was haunting and creepy. So hopefully we do get some answers and maybe even 11 brought back some how. Either way if Mike wasn't going to wind up with 11.
Nancy not with Jonathan in the end was pretty annoying. "Oh cool, she got me another camera, I will just be alone taking pictures of stuff."
Whenever you're feeling down and thinking you're a worthless piece of sheet, just take a deep breath and let a glimpse of a smile decorate your lovely and simply human face, because deep down you know things could be worse, you could have Ashley's job (the regular Ashley, not the "also Ashley", I don't really know what that one does).
The first encounter with the Borg was probably quite creepy back in the late 1980s, but watching it today it feels a bit underwhelming. Far more interesting is the performance of Guinan, and Picard's need to become humble before Q. Lots of things here which were never followed up on, notably the concept of baby Borgs which was completely abandoned. The 18 dead crew members do lead a bad taste in your mouth, and severely alters any playful side we may have seen in Q.
They also set up a big mystery with Guinan's background, which was never mentioned or explored again. Lt. Gomez could have become an enjoyable recurring character, too.
More pieces of the puzzle but still no full picture developing.
It actually wasn't too bad. We see more of Q, which is a good thing given deLancies great performance. Concerning Q: Why would he rip himself of his own power in a scenario he himself created ? Doesn't make sense and suggest that someone else is involved ?
So, Laris isn't Laris but a supervisor like Gary Seven. That's an interesting angle that I hope get's further developed than just this short mentioning. I'm also getting some Edith Keeler vibes with Renee Picard in the sense that she was essential for the timeline. Interestingly Keeler's survival would have let probably to the same future as Renee not making the flight. Coincidence ?
The ICE storyline is hopefully done with and it was obviously just there to make a point. Let's leave it at that.
I don't like the Jurati plot because I don't like Jurati. And I'm dissapointed in how they used the Borg Queen so far. But that's just me personally.
Bringing in Brent Spiner as another Soong ancestor is a nice angle that, in a way, gives more depth. Althought I fear he's just a tool here. And Isa Briones finally got to make her appearance in this timeline, too.
One thing that pains me to say a bit is that it feels that Patrick Stewart seems exhausted in almost every scene he's in. It could be intentional in how he plays Picard as a fragile old man. I hope it is because otherwise it would mean it's too much for him. Which could be normal given his age but makes me wonder about his involvement in season 3.
I'm as surprised as anyone that I've found an episode with Neelix in such a prominent role that I quite enjoyed. But it's not because of him, it's because it's the culmination of a plot thread that has been building over the past bunch of episodes - even though that culmination may not be the most satisfying end. At any rate, Neelix's scenes saying goodbye to Tom did work very well.
It turns out Tom Paris has been faking his misbehaviour (duh) because Janeway and Tuvok suspect there's a spy on board. They decided to keep Chakotay out of the loop to make it seem more real, but I think it's really because they didn't trust Chakotay not to mess things up. I think what's impressed me most about it all is that the show kept this thread running over the course of several episodes, and it just feels like such a breath of fresh air to have some serialisation that I'm happy to sit back and enjoy it, despite it not being all that compelling.
Tom's fight to escape from Seska and the Kazon is unimpressive, seeminly limited to one corridor set that he has to run back and forth through. Seska herself is revelling in being evil, and I have to admit I get a weird thrill out of the cheesiness of it all. I almost didn't expect Jonas to die, and at least he goes out in style.
Neelix's TV show could become grating if we see lots more of it, but the funny subplot with the Doctor did entertain me. One moment that took me right out of the episode was when Janeway contacts engineering and explains everything that's going on to Jonas ("we need the transporter, because we've detected a Kazon shuttle and there is one human life sign on board and we think it might be Tom Paris") despite no captain ever taking the time to do this in Trek history. Also, Jonas being the only person in engineering is really bizarre.
@finfan This episode had 2 elements I really like. The first one is the fact that during a long mission, is easy to become nostalgic thinking about people you love. I really liked the music where Picard is sad about his old flame. I wished they introduced this theme a couple of episodes before, it's too much of a convenience to show his sadness and his reunion with the old flame in the same episode. But I can accept that, since this is how the show is structured.
The second element is the scientific one and I liked the idea of the dimensional experiment, even if there isn't a big depth to it.
Even if Picard is still attracted to Jenice, the show doesn't show us his struggle to help her husband, and I think the writers avoided to write an episode with too much stereotypical situations. Maybe Picard has embraced his job. There were some funny scenes where Beverly is a little bit jealous, I hope Picard and her will have a relationship.
sorry but I don't get it, I don't get how I could move and watch the second episode after this..
Never liked this episode, but I do like Mark Harelik quite a lot.
Although after last episode, I like seeing Janeway upset. Janeway demotes Paris for disobeying an order related to the Prime Directive and then she turns around and violates the Prime Directive because it suits her fancy. She has made my $#!+ list.
WTF, they butchered the characters and the family dynamic. Is it too much to ask to have a family that isn't totally f***ing dysfuncrional on TV these days?
Just 25 minutes in and I think Westworld could be the next Battlestar Galactica. It's more dark than the movie from the 70's. Just not sure why the engineers don't see all the crazy shit Ed Harris has been up to though. If they are always watching the robots.
Still, as a fan of the original movie, this show is pretty kick ass and I can't wait for more. The movie is pretty outdated and this show makes a great insanely awesome update. Even if all of it doesn't make complete sense so far.
Crap episode this show just keeps getting worse with every episode sigh
honestly thought it would be better and more about the racing but it was more about his love life. felt like there was only 15mins of racing in the whole movie.
quite a few people in the cinema checking the time on their phones which implied I wasn't the only one not that interested in it.
Like a soap opera digest: skips over the facts to focus on the romantic drama.
Like this year's Napoleon, there was a lot I wanted to know about the subject and none of it was in the film.
Credit where it's due, though, the film did a nice job recreating the era and Adam Driver was one, but if you want to be truly entertained watch Ford v Ferrari again or maybe an episode of Succession, which at least has the decency to be shorter.
It's really bad. The writing is terrible. Even my tween daughter was making fun of it making comments like "why is Ashoka afraid of Sabine turning dark? I thought Jedis aren't afraid." And "Why is Ashoka lighing her saber first? That goes against everything in the original triloty of Jedis not attacking" . Yeah I have been a fan of Star Wars since seeing the first one in 78, so maybe I am just too old for this, but it doesn't feel like star wars at all. Thrawn was great in those Heir of the Empire books, but he was so weak and not convincing in this series. The lightsaber fights have gone from masterful sword fights to dance routings. I don't know... pretty disappointing. I hate how they keep changing and cheapening the whole force/ jedi thing too. and there are too many modern tropes that they cannot get away from in modern Star Wars movies - particulatly how there has to be a weird light saber and there has to be a differnet stormtrooper. I guess in this case, zombie stormtroopers. ugh...
Although Titanic is seen to be the biggest cliche, and there's a nonsense stigma around that you're not a 'true' movie lover if you call Titanic you're favourite film, here's my take on it...
This film was waaay before it's time, the visuals, the directing, the casting, the production.. All of it is immensely professional and well thought out for the era it was filmed in, heck, you struggle to find something that flows so well, 20 years later. I don't know another 3 and a half hour movie that joins together, is constantly surpising and dramatic yet hopeful in the way that Titanic is.
Need I mention how amazing Leonardo and Kate are? Still some of the best acting I have seen to date.
It's unfair to just see this film as 'Titanic' something that everybody knows... This film is a masterpiece. The attention to small detail, the character development, the fiction within non-fiction, the way it takes over your emotions and pulls on your heartstrings, leaving you broken yet hopeful.
I truly appreciate this film for everything it is and cannot fault it. Although I must say (THERE WAS ROOM FOR TWO!!!)
Really liked this because it feels very realistic for multiple reasons, but I have a problem with one single thing: Why the hell don’t they send another person to verify it? The machine didn’t break or anything. Other than that phenomenal. Will definitely read the book.
F*ckin' love that movie poster...even more after seeing it!
One thread of, "Inglorious Bastards," fleshed out to fill a film, but that thread carrying a singular meaning (a Finnish word with no direct translation?). Wow, hahaha!
Starting off pretty bad, the cut in the guy's neck is awfully done, no details whatsoever or any attempt to make it look real.
The drink at 24min the air marshall is asking is a soda and he clearly has a fizzy drink so it's clearly not a vodka (he's saying it is)
The ice cubes are and feel very fake to the viewer, she claims they're melting but when she drops the bucket, there's not a single drop of water.
Overall a very poorly made first episode
