#thecaptainoutoftime

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.

DAMN, SON!

strongly agree | agree | neutral | disagree | strongly disagree

I don’t think this is really an unpopular opinion, I’ve heard a lot of people who share the same sentiment. However, I strongly disagree. I prefer the promising and hopeful ending of Chosen so much more

Is The Gift a great episode? Absolutely. It’s masterful. And yes, a lot of crap happens between there and Chosen that we would love to forget and to have it never happen. But The Gift was not the ending Buffy deserved.

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.

Like the post T2 movies, it’s uneven. I think overall though, it gets closer to the source material than any of the other ones. 

The Sarah Connor stuff works pretty well and I’m damn glad to see Linda Hamilton again, Emilia Clarke just wasn’t....wasn’t it. The T-X Rev-9 has some fun humour associated with it, but the damn half empty Endo skull inside of it is still weird. The trailers telegraphed who we’d meet in the cabin but it’s still the right call to let Schwarzenegger sit out the first half of the movie.

I’m gonna also dovetail for a second that the uncanny valley in the prologue was pretty damn good, each movie is inching closer and closer to uncanny Arnold. The back muscles looked a bit weird tho, or the arms I’m not sure. I still don’t think they got the proportions for that right (or whatever ripped actor they got to mocap him).

Oh and that leaker a few months ago that gave us the prologue was spot on, I don’t remember if he had the rest but he had that.  

back to more thoughts

I think, compared to the other post T2 movies, there isn’t a single bad casting note (I never really dug Nick Stahl as Connor in T3, or John Connor in Genisys (to say nothing of Matt Smith) and I’m not settled on Helena Bonham Carter avatar). I really liked Grace, and Dani if it took a while for the reveal of her role to finally land. 

The cinematography itself is also good, better than Genisys or T3. I like the idea of a completely new iteration of Skynet, Legion, even if it does sound ripped from a comic a different comic book (see also Time Travel Superhero Landings). It might have tried too much with the action set pieces.

This is probably where this series of movies should end, really.

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.