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Invasion (2021)
Sorry but no!
Sometimes it kan be very interesting when a story proceeds slowly, but when you have to watch several storylines filled with unlikeable characters who are addion one dumb decision to the next, things start to drag considerably. I had to hit the fast forward button again and again to make it bearable. The only likeable character in this show, the ageing Sheriff, disappears after episode two without explanation and seems to be only in there to add a recognizable name to the cast as he is played by Sam Neill.
Most of the others seem to stumble along the plot with barely ever changing their facial expression.
For All Mankind (2019)
Alternative history soap
In principle a very smart alternate history show nicely woven into the real history of the second half of the 20th century. The occasional scientific nonsense would be acceptable but for my taste the show has a massively overrepresented soap opera share, especially for the genre. Ah and the show is woke, so all women are strong, capable, near perfect, while the male characters are useless idiots and have a tendency to die soon.
Star Trek: Picard: Broken Pieces (2020)
Finally coming together
There is a constant stream of bad reviews complaining that this is not the old Star Trek. They are right it's the new. And now after a few mediocre episodes it really starts to come together.Still addressing the big philosophical questions like old Trek while building strong connections with TNG, Voyager and a little DS9. And I got the feeling there lurks also a deep connection to the second and possibly third season of Discovery which in itself is far better than its reputation ( if you discount the rather bad first season) And the sequence with the five emergency holograms is just perfect.
Ad Astra (2019)
What a pretentious movie!
It pretends to be deep, but its shallow
It pretends to be intellectual but it's very stupid
It pretends to be hard sci fi but its just garbled nonsense.
The writer/director seems to have seen Kubricks 2001 without understanding it, but was told that its one of the greatest movies ever made, so he wanted to hit the same spot.
The underlying story is about a man who almost destroys his own life over the grief of being left by his father, but finally gets to grip with it when he confronts him at the edge of the solar system.
Nice story, BUT:
-The reason the father left makes no sense.
-The reason why the son follows him makes no sense.
-Between the long passages of the main characters introspection there are short outbursts of action which have nothing to do with the story and make no sense in themselves.
-And finally, every single scene is so full of basic scientific nonsense, which left me deeply annoyed, that someone, who clearly has not the slightest clue about the subject, has the nerve to make such a movie and actually fill it with references to 2001 which is also one of the most scientifically accurate movies ever made.