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Star Trek: Discovery: Coming Home (2022)
Long term trek fan who is extremely happy with Discovery - Best season yet
I get that the tone is different from what many of us are used to. It is more overtly emotional (though star trek has always had an emotional core, don't try to convince me otherwise)
But it feels like Discovery has really found its footing in season 4. The bridge crew is coming together and becoming more defined, the ensamble cast feel like they've found their stride and it feels like a crew now.
And I'm not saying the fans who feel let down by the direction Discovery has taken don't have a right to that feeling. But it's time to let that go. If you really truly can't abide it, then watch Strange New worlds, Picard, Lower Decks or Prodigy, or one of the upcoming series, or rewatch the classics. (or you can go over and check out the Orville). But stop trying to tear this thing down that is working, just because it's not exactly what you would have made.
I for one am glad they are trying new things. I'm sick of Star Trek that tries to do more of the same. It barely worked for Voyager, it didn't work for Enterprise. I personally am sick of reboots and rehashes. I am glad to have Star Trek that is unafraid to do something new.
And Star Trek always has been socially progressive. If it isn't making authoritarians and xenophobes mad, and isn't making hardline conservatives uncomfortable and making them think, it isn't doing it's job.
This series has been coming together for a while, and season 4 has had a genuine sci-fi story with huge stakes and genuinely broken new ground. And it worked. And I loved it.
Downsizing (2017)
Not the movie it is billed as
Ok, to get it out of the way, this is not a movie about people shrinking themselves to live luxuriously or lessen their environmental impact. That is a completely superfluous addition that is only relevant in the first third or so of the movie, added as a gimmick.
This is mostly a very preachy movie about climate change.
And I agree with them about climate change and the need to take better care of the planet, that's not it.
But I don't need to be tricked into watching a whole movie trying to convi6me of something I already believe by promising a light hearted sci-fi concept about something completely different.
If you didn't know about the 'downsizing' and you missed the first thirty minutes, it would never matter one iota to the actual movie which is not about that at all. (Sure, there are a couple of visuals and throwaway lines that would feel a bit weird, but noting huge)
So, I feel deceived, and bored after watching this movie.
I give it a 4 out of 10 because it does have some cute moments, and because they're at least trying to raise awareness about something important.
But as a movie it sucks, and it is nothing short of deceptive in how it is promoted.
Titans: Nightwing (2019)
A decent episode marred by a crazy writing decision
*Spoiler alert
I knew this episode was the lowest rated in the entire series, and caught myself wondering why, because for most of it, it was pretty much average for the series, if not slightly above.
Then we get the insane writing choice to kill off Donna Troy at the end, after all the fighting, after the villains have been stopped, on what is essentially a pointless random accident.
There was no emotional weight behind it, it felt senseless and pointless. If she had been killed by Deathstroke, or even by Superboy while he was still brainwashed, it would have had meaning and an impact.
As it is, it feels almost like an afterthought, like they'd already shot the episode and then spontaneously decided to get rid of her before season 3 but didn't want to change any of the major story events to give it meaning.
In that respect, it reminds my of the death of Tasha Yar on Star Trek The next Generation.
This could have been done so much more elegantly.