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Star Wars: The Bad Batch (2021)
For entry level Star Wars
I think this show is great!
For those critical of the show, you obviously don't have children. The rating of the show is PG for children 6+. It is pitched for kids who don't think like adults and who are not as critical. Enjoy the journey of the program or maybe just get a life.
The Book of Boba Fett: Chapter 7: In the Name of Honor (2022)
The fans are so critical
Star Wats fans are so critical and expect so much, you wonder why they bother watching. Would they have preferred Jar Jar Binks to accidentally save the day?
Yes a great series and a satisfying ending.
Power Rangers: Dino Fury (2021)
Boys are not interested
Power Rangers has been running for more years than I can count. There has never been any kind of romantic relationship, heterosexual or otherwise, portrayed. My boy has been watching it since he was 5 and seriously, boys of his age are totally uninterested in romantic relationships. That's why they have never included it. So why put a relationship in now?
Star Trek: Discovery: People of Earth (2020)
Establishing episode
This is an establishing episode for the rest of the season to introduce new information and a new character. So there's not much of a story within the episode (It's more like an incident) with any threats quickly resolved by Georgiou. The writers may have been watching TNG S4 when they wrote this episode as there's a reference to the study tree S4E21 and the host S4E23.
They now have the mushroom drive, a database of the universe and someone who's been around long enough to navigate them through it.
No need to rely on any new technology that earth could offer.
Enjoyed it anyway. Especially Booker and Georgiou.
Mortal Engines (2018)
A family friendly and more beautiful version of Mad Max
I really enjoyed this movie and it looks beautiful. It didn't need to be so violent or romantic to work well. Mortal Engines is based on an award-winning young-adult science fantasy novel of the same name by Philip Reeve.
Given the current situation in Hong Kong, it's ironic that a film portrays London trying to invade peace-loving China.
The Orville: Primal Urges (2019)
Brilliantly addresses the destructive nature of addiction
This episode is for all the sci-fi nerds out there who sit in front of their computers in their bedrooms playing with their JT with nothing else to do. And what better way to do it than with humour. All the negative reviews are probably from those same people who just want to be entertained.
Star Trek: Picard: Et in Arcadia Ego, Part 2 (2020)
No Longer 7 of 9
I've really enjoyed this series right up until the last episode when everything just fell apart. What a rush job/patch-up job they did of it. I agree with some of the other reviews. So many things badly resolved. The dumb so-called battle scene at the end, with the whole fleet leaving Picard who's about to die.
And what happened to Narek and the synths?!
My other gripe is how they've totally changed 7's character to the point of being lesbian. Excuse-me but she had at least 2 romantic relationships with men in the past. That was half the point of her being on the show.
And so where is the grave of the real Picard?
Doctor Who: Orphan 55 (2020)
Pitch Black Time Machine
In general this episode was really good. It included some obligatory scary monsters who are given justifiable reasons to be liked. It follows an old formula of the doctor and his now her team accidentally turning up in a strange place bound for destruction so he/she can save the day. Other characters are included to slowly be killed off by the monsters. It reminded me of Pitch Black with ideas from The Time Machine and Planet of the Apes.
Enterprise: Chosen Realm (2004)
Watch for the final scene
Not a bad episode. But the final scene is what makes it.
Enterprise (2001)
A lesson in Good Design, Anthropology and Language
When Enterprise was first released I didn't really enjoy it as much as the previous Star Trek releases . It didn't seem as plausible, it was too emotional and I didn't end up watching all the episodes in the end.
More recently I've started watching the series a third time but this time I use it to learn French on Netflix.
I actually like this series more than all the others in one particular way. It builds on the Star Trek universe. It takes advantage of the Canon while remaining faithful to it.
As an architect I see it in this sense. An architect can design a new building on a new site and relatively speaking, this is quite an easy task. But to design a building in the context of what has already been created is a much harder task.
I love the way Enterprise shows the development of technology that we took for granted in the previous releases. The way it shows how relationships have been developed. It is a bit like a jigsaw puzzle where Enterprise takes the pieces that are missing and links them all together.
If we took the analogy of a building and applied to the most recent series I'm sure that we would see something totally different. We would see things demolished and deconstructed we would see engineering feats impossible to construct and we would see something that would not be acceptable to build.
The other aspect of Enterprise I really love is the way it takes advantage of anthropological and cultural differences. As someone who is well-travelled and now lives in a foreign country I can really relate to it. If you're going to produce a show about exploring new cultures then it's a necessary element and one that adds a depth to the plots. I hardly see this in the latest series. It's like the writers have never been overseas and have no context or experience to build this aspect into their stories.
So now I have a new reason to watch Enterprise and will continue to in French.