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The Acolyte: Destiny (2024)
Cringy fan fiction. Just another wasted opportunity
As I watched this episode I just kept asking to myself: "Why even go there?" The series confused taking bold steps with throwing a bunch of nonsense and figure out if anything sticks.
This is not fun TV. The series begun with a murder mystery but very soon devolved into some run-of-the-mill revenge drama by the second episode. Now, in the third episode it devolves again into just pure cringy nonsense.
Star Wars never had strong dialogues and you can even argue that the stories were fairly standard good versus evil adventures. However, The Acolyte is uninteresting as it tries to sUbVeRt ExPectaiTioNs and tries to fool us in thinking that the Jedi are not all good but fails miserably in its delivery.
We are shown a new group of force users, fine, that's sort of interesting...I guess although I would have preferred some more focus on the Sith since...well...you know, they've been the big bad for 40 years but alright we got Force witches..ahem...sorry, Thread witches. Then they are entirely killed within a few minutes because of a child throwing a tantrum. Really? This is some poor world building.
We also learn what was Jedi Torbin's big "sin" and it was nothing, he was not even directly involved in the death of Mae's family so really no reason for absolution by poison in the last episode. Nothing makes sense, this is just bad writing and not the Star Wars story we deserved. I'll just wait for Andor Season 2.
Star Trek: Short Treks: Children of Mars (2020)
Cheap tears not worth your time
The story by itself is nothing special. Some sad song do not make for a good story. Not only does this short dismisses all the established lore about how humanity has evolved beyond petty emotions but the story does not add anything new. This felt like a proof of concept but it doesn't work, it relies on undeserved shock value with some filler teenage drama. For such a short running time, it wasted time on menial character traits that do not serve the story. Given the outcome, literally anything would have worked and something more interesting would have been better. This doesn't feel like Star Trek at all.
Blue Beetle (2023)
Boring, cartoonish, predictable, and cliche
Blue Beetle is a step back in twenty years of super hero movies. The formula should be pretty common by now but BB is just plain average. I really wanted to like this movie but the usual tropes and forced humor bring it down. One of the biggest problems is there is no real conflict, the beetle chooses the hero and the rest of the movie is just a chain reaction of irremediable consequences. A cartoon villain is established in the first scene and some world-conquering motive is thrown in the middle just to have you say "look, here's the very bad guy!". A wasted opportunity all around.
One saving aspect is the Hispanic family theme is taken very boldly. There are no token mixed-race couple for the sake of appearances here. The hero's family really shines. The movie really goes all out showing the roots of the character which is not common. Sadly, the movie is boring and not worth your time.