I'm not sure what I just watched. Was this totally brilliant, or a smelly turd? I... I really don't now.
This is going from bad to worse. I love Star Trek and I hoped with Patrick Stewart it will be better, but every episode makes this even worse.
sure let's revisit the worst episode of the season but marry it with some of the most moronic action sequences AND have Soong go full stereotype villain
gawd
they really killed him omg! i was hoping something would happen! so now i know why people are saying characters really die on GoT
Joffrey Baratheon: "Dog, I command you to go back out there and fight!"
Tyrion Lannister: "You're Kingsguard, Clegane. We must beat them back, or they're going to take this city! Your King's city!"
Sandor Clegane: "Fuck the Kingsguard. Fuck the city. Fuck the king."
The last 10 minutes of this episode is probably one of the most powerful endings I've ever seen! Gave me goosebumps!
The final scene of the episode was definitely repugnant. Another rape? REALLY? [...]
are you even an ally if you don't drop an episode at the beginning of pride month where an uncensored naked dude enters the dickhole of his lover? are you?¿?
Thumbs up if you said "What the fuck..." to your TV before the opening credits.
IT'S THE BLOODY HOUND. GIVE HIM HIS CHICKEN!
Great episode.
Was great to see the Blackfish. And Lady Mormont. Massive respect. Showed 10 times more potential than Tommen did or ever will.
That Arya moment what the fuck. I knew something was gonna happen. Please no. I'm going on a riot if something happens to Arya. Writers please. No :|
Was kinda annoyed with Sansa shitting on Davos like that :/
Overall giving this week an 8/10. It was good, but not outstanding.
Based on the promo there's no way Jamie can take on Brienne xD
[7.1/10] A bit milder of an episode, but still has its moments. I like Derek getting a little focus, and the show building out his relationship with Bean. There’s something compelling about him being lonely given his pressures and isolation and general unsuitedness to be heir to the throne juxtaposed with Bean being subject to the usual gender essentialism and sense of being usurped in her own family. Sure, it’s a little corny that at the end of the day, she proves how much she cares about Derek by risking her life to save him from a monster, but it’s also a little sweet (and the show nicely adds in that trademark Groening dose of cynicism to take the edge off).
I was less enamored with Zog’s “I wish I had gout” B-story. Luci helping people make bad decisions is always a good tack on this show, but the jokes from Zog eating terrible organ foods didn’t have much mileage in them (beyond rampant grossness, which isn't really my thing) and, aside from the Duke of Twinkletown getting attacked by the octopus, didn’t really go anywhere.
But while Derek’s story underwhelmed a bit, his boyish playing and slapstick with Elfo was cute. Really, the only major weakspot in this one was the giant squid, who seemed like a pretty random obstacle whose presence felt contrived. Even there, I got a kick out of the party barge captain coming back for some humor of the mundane amid the fantastical.
Overall, this is a middle-of-the-road episode at best, but one that’s mostly inoffensive, and has a good premise in terms of the main character relationship it explores.
Shame that the main punchline of this episode is Graham Linehan's (at the time) thinly veiled transphobia
Bode is just annoying at this point. He's the reason the family is getting in trouble 90% of the time...
I am so proudly going to tell my kids that I lived in the time when Community aired on Television.
Eight seasons to find out who Finn’s parents are. I love it.
Hm. I don't know. The logician and the children... At the same time, that's silly, adorable and tells you surprisingly much about the Vulcan society. Problem: there's this other civilization and you really don't have any context. Are they somehow important in the sector? What role do they play? Or are they just generic baddies (or so it seems)? Well, in the end there's a twist and an interesting phenomenon is discovered. This philosophical part isn't bad but very shallow
This episode is totally inconsequential. Off they go and next week's episode starts as if nothing had happened.
I like this episode. To begin with, I appreciate they don't waste time on how the Hirogen were able to board Voyager. Of course it shamelessly feeds Hollywood's insatiable hunger for all things WWII and the Nazis in particular and while this could be annoying it's so strangly integrated into the world of Star Trek that I actually like this episode. Plus, at this point, writers know how to work with Seven and the Doctor. It's certainly one of the most memorable and unique Holodeck goes wrong episodes in the franchise. Usually that's holograms who become aware of the simulation, of themselves and somehow gained control of systems outside the holodeck hereby endangering the crew. This story is better written and much more complex. It's more than one of those little holodeck extravaganzas that only serve as an entertaining diversion.
PS: that's probably an awful thing to say given what we Germans are responsible for but the Wehrmacht/Waffen-SS uniforms showed an impeccable sense of style. And the Hirogen look good in them.
This is an interesting episode, and we get to see Jeri Ryan singing, which in itself is a treat :)
However every time I see it I'm bugged by something : the studio settings of 1944 France are very good, reproducing a 1940's French town quite accurately, but in one instance they fail badly : there is a car prominently featured in 2 scenes, a Citroen 2CV "Charleston" a model that came out in 1980, furthermore it's worth mentioning that in any case the original model of the Citroen 2CV was unveiled in 1948, 3 years after the end of World War 2. This anachronism grates and could have been so easily avoided (there are other period related cars in the background that don't clash)
This was really funny (and I think intentionally so!) The goofiest least convincing monster yet, with a silly name to boot. Plus a number of moments with excellent comic timing:
Laughed out loud multiple times.
Our first look inside Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities reveals a rather generic horror story. After the effective opening scene, we follow racist veteran Nick (Tim Blake Nelson) who, like in "Storage Wars", buys an abandoned storage unit at an auction. It was previously owned by a Nazi who was not averse to the occult. Nick needs money immediately because he is deeply in debt. The plot, which is set during the tenure of George Bush, doesn't pick up speed for a long time. Tim Blake Nelson is also too likeable for his role. The story only gets a bit scarier towards the end, only to end abruptly. The episode was adequate overall, but nothing more.
Quite entertaining, walking the line between funny and cringe worthy. The Doctor's daydreams feel like they become repetitive fairly quickly, but there's creativity in all of them (Paris waving from his lonely table was great). I'd imagine that the cast were able to have some fun with this one. The alien race also managed to feel both highly inventive and extremely familiar, and I think that sums up much of the episode.
In the end, it made me laugh and that counts for something. Robert Picardo shines on this show with whatever he's given, and here that's certainly a lot. I felt a bit put out at Janeway's initial reticence to give him any recognition for who he is because of what he is. By now the Doc has proven time and time again that he's more than just his programming, and Janeway has even dealt with this specific issue previously. Yeah, the Doc was probably asking for a bit too much in being granted emergency command of the ship, but it's true that the crew treats him without much respect.
Season 6 is doing pretty well so far (apart from the opener), it feels like all of these episodes are finally placing characters front and centre instead of plot. I wonder if it's going to keep this up...
The whole episode seems to be written to convince Dwayne Johnson to make a (very) brief appearance. And it worked as, according to imdb, this episode had the highest ratings of the season.
Which I find rather sad because people were probably tuning in to see The Rock and not Star Trek. And since neither his role nor the story itself is memorable you can ignore this one. It's also quite easy to recognize when they used the stunt-double for Jeri and when it's her.
This tried a bit to hard to be a Voyager version of the TNG episode 'Lower Decks' (and that's all the more disappointing given that Voyager has ALREADY DONE this back in season 1's 'Learning Curve').
It followed a very standard and predictable plot. The inexperienced crew go on a trip with the Captain and a life-threatening situation occurs. They fight through their fears and doubts to prove to themselves that they are able to handle a crisis. Blah blah blah. We've seen it all before. Where the episode does stand up a bit is that the new crew members are all fairly unique people with intresting quirks. Unfortunately they're not really very easy to like, which derails things. Harren in particular continually speaks to Janeway in an incredibly disrespectful way and I'm surprised that he gets away with it all.
I'd be pretty happy to see more of Tal and Billy, but this is Voyager: I'm not expecting to see/hear of them ever again. Maybe I'll be surprised.
Fun little appearance by musician Tom Morello.
Didn't Janeway memorise all conduits and Jeffrey's tube of Voyager but doesn't know where a Junction Room is?
Most meta episode ever?
I loved the shot the writers took at people that want more space adventures like in season 1. "What does that even mean?", lol
The guest stars in this one are awesome. Amy Poehler as GOB’s wife and Julia Louis-Dreyfus as the blind lawyer both are perfect.
Did you check the anus? Ha! Walter asking what we all were thinking!
And I’m curious, was it Olivia the one who turned off the lights or was it also Peter? Cause I feel like he’s an experiment baby too so maybe both have powers?
And of course Walter wrote the ZFV and doesn’t remember, that’s so walter
I felt personally attacked when Charlie said “she’s not normal, she’s at the prime of her life with no boyfriend and no friends”