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Star Trek: Voyager: Scorpion, Part II (1997)
Engaging issue of True Trek
I know that the ultra gorgeous blonde lady has been brought as an easy appeal to hormone-pumped teens, but she is a fine actress playing a fine character.
I've seen many people disregard Voyager as a neglected cousin of TNG and DS9. For me, STV is in pair with both. All series have their generous rate of appalling fillers. And STV overused silly personal interactions, holodeck highlights, and lazy writing. In general, the characters are good to begin with. Lots of different mindframes and origins. Too bad they have spent precious time with the insufferable Seska and that comic relief of a Hyena. By then we had memorable episodes, and could enjoy excellent actors in action.
The primary cast is better than that of TNG for me. If we compared head by head (when possible) with TNG, Voyager wouldn't be put to shame.
Janeway X Picard = The only thing I don't like about Janeway is her voice, other than that she is a fine Starfleet Captain, of course in a different style to the grandiloquent Shakespearean Picard, but I prefer her.
Chakotay X Riker = The initial rebel/indian sides of Chakotay were gradually abandoned, which is bad, because I find him better than Riker.
Tuvok X Data = both are winners and highlights of Star Trek. Tuvok is somewhat underrated compared to Data, but for me Tim Russ did a lovely job, adding Vulcan-ness to the layers of Spock.
Crusher X The Doctor = no comparison here, Robert Picardo is fantastic, one of the best additions to the Star Trek long history. Crusher was introduced, I believe, basically as an uninteresting love interest for Picard, duh...
Kes X Troy = both fragile ladies with underused telepathic powers. Both could have been so much more...
Neelix X Wesley = both equally disgusting.
B'elanna X Geordi = The Klingon lady is a much more layered character than LaForge.
Worf = in the beginning badly written, later improved. A good character.
Kim = average Starfleet officer. A decent addition to the crew.
Guinan = added a lot to the texture.
Tasha = nothing.
Halo: Reckoning (2022)
Storyline advancing
In the first episodes we must have lost 30 min with all the Master Chief's dramatic removals of the helmet. Lame.
The stupid spoiled brat should stay in the desert and preferably die and dry out there.
Other than that, things happening, fine action scenes... The plot goes somewhere.
Star Trek: Discovery: That Hope Is You, Part 1 (2020)
I miss Lexa Doig
Echoes of many different things:
Dylan Hunt struggling to restore the Commonwealth.
Han Solo in Mos Eisley.
Gorgeous visuals.
As usual lots of hate from Star Trek purists.
But I think we should watch this show for what it is, and not wish for a reboot of TNG.
Stargate SG-1: The Nox (1997)
The blessed Nox
A crazy plot hole is that the Nox are supposed to be highly advanced almost to the point of being "magical". So they take only a few minutes to learn English. This performance is, however, ironically much worse than any other race, because ALL of them in other episodes already speak automatic English...
The Nox actors are great, the child and the lady are very beautiful.
Apophis is great as always and the Jaffa are blinded by their faith.
A very nice episode.
The Irregulars (2021)
Alternative universe Supernatural/Sherlockian.
The Irregulars is a mashup Supernatural/Victorian period show that happens in an alternative BBC/woke universe.
It's 2021. It's Netflix. Wokeness is more than expected. With female empowerment, multicultural cast, etc. So this shouldn't come as a surprise, and I'm too numb to bother anymore.
The show progresses as a fanfiction monster-of-the-week action drama with nice Victorian setting but with a strange choice of Brit electro/hip-hop as soundtrack.
Not horrible but also not a masterpiece.
Alien Warfare (2019)
just a "theory" -- people really don't get it? do they?
A scientist would NEVER keep repeating: "it's just a theory".
She would have said "it's just a working hypothesis".
She's obviously Brazilian, but I can barely distinguish what she is mumbling in Portuguese to herself.
Blade Runner 2049 (2017)
Atmospheric, with fantastic photography
Beautiful movie. Villeneuve captured the atmosphere of the original, even down to the crazy outdoor adds and the scan/pam/zoom devices. I find most amusing the reference to slender atractive women (as opposed to a modern supposedly SJW standard) that many reviewers cited. I don't find contradictory that they wanted to get rid of old replicants and at the same time to produce perfected brand new ones. Where do I buy this OS/AI with the looks of Joi?
Time Trap (2017)
Nice premise somewhat spoiled.
The idea of time bubbles is very good. But the writing gets lost most of the time (no pun intended). A few actors are decent, the others not so much. Why such a sluggish pace in the beginning to frantically rush everything and make that insipid ending?
Farscape: Durka Returns (1999)
Gigi nothing less than fantastic
The main cast of this series is very charismatic. And for me it is impossible to stay indifferent to Claudia Black and Virginia Hey.
Then Gigi appears. Magnificent in her silvery shades of grey.
What a sensual woman and incredible actress!
In my opinion she just stole the scene as an amoral free spirit.
I dunno how this series developed from this point, but this was a clear highlight.
Farscape: Throne for a Loss (1999)
Hey, Virginia
Zhaan short strip scene shows her beautiful lean body.
Rygel is a pathetic loser.
The tavleks are surprisingly amenable to talk and to hear.
It's hard to give up chemical addictions.
Episode with ups and downs, with things happening to start building the characters.
Farscape: Premiere (1999)
Star Wars meets the muppets
Space opera from the turn of the millennium.
But it has a much older, 80s vibe, sort of "The labyrinth".
Alien are outrageous, in stark contrast with the not-very-much-alien-like aliens from Star Trek.
I don't know if this is coincidence, but there are so many references to Star Wars:
(1) the r2d2-like service droids;
(2) the giant guy with head tentacles;
(3) a mini-Jabba;
(4) they even had a look-alike of Senator Organa...
Stargate SG-1: Menace (2002)
Annoying girl-robot
The young woman is annoying. Jackson with his empathy is bound to get frustrated: the robot's lego-minions were bound to destroy everything while Jackson wasn't really getting anywhere with is pleas to the childish-robot deaf ears.
The so-praised twist didn't branch into something useful for continuity. This episode was boring and chaotic...
Stargate SG-1: Threshold (2001)
Most welcome character background for Teal'c
The beginning of the episode is slow and boring, but the flashbacks fill a lot of lacunae in the story of the character.
The final moments are a thrilling montage reliving the moments in which Teal'c chose to rebel against his false god.
Stargate SG-1: Upgrades (2000)
Superheroes
The development closely resembles the scenes where a generic superhero is discovering his own powers (it made me think of Spiderman). Jack even acknowledges this in the bar brawl by stating it's a cliché.
The serene demeanor of Gal. Hammond (Don Davis was very well cast) is in stark contrast with the junkie behavior of the three usual suspects.
The beautiful Tokra woman is as cynic and patronizing as they come.
Nice to see the Vulcan nerve pinch being used outside the Star Trek universe.
Stargate SG-1: Seth (1999)
Filler
This episode was anticlimactic. The plot was both set (pun not intended) and resolved very quickly. There are neither major consequences nor any progress on the story line.
Highlander II: The Quickening (1991)
Biggest retcon I've ever seen
The filmmakers called this a sequel, but it is in reality an entirely different story, with an entirely different premise. In the first movie the immortals were Earth men born in different time periods and presumably created by some genetic mutation, but here they are aliens. All the ethnicity present in the first movie is discarded, for example, Ramirez (aka Spanish Peacock) loses all his Spanicity, and along with the ex-Scot he is now a Zeistian...