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My Holo Love (2020)
I am not a Robot
Conceptually similar to a recent Netflix kdrama "I am Not a Robot", but everything is in reverse. They are both equally watchable if you like kdrama romance.
Star Trek: Voyager: Lineage (2001)
Forgets to be a sci-fi
This is a classic example of when Star Trek forgets to be a sci-fi and is entirely concerned with 20th century moralizing. This episode could be analogously about an ethnic minority human mother, attempting to genetically modify her child, to avoid persecution, then being talked out of it by low tech people of religious faith. A Human/Klingon hybrid would take massive amounts of genetic engineering to achieve The doctor makes ridiculous faith-based statements that Klingon components within B'Ellana's baby are natural. You can almost hear him say that "God designed the baby this way, who are we to tamper with providence and nice naturalness". The writer momentarily touches on his hypocrisy in wanting to modify the baby's spine. Unfortunately, one of the bugbears of the Star Trek world is the ridiculous stagnation of humanity and their strange ability to talk to aliens, even when their translator has been taken off them. Is it sci-fi, just because they say "interphasic remodulator" a few times per episode?
The Expanse (2015)
Up to season 3 and still looks just as unmemorable
Unfortunately, you could watch most episodes and not know what season they came from. The plot doesn't seem to progress beyond some people in a blue-lit space ship, rattling around, doing epic nothing. I started watching series 3 with my partner and she complained that she couldn't remember the show, let alone what happened in the previous series. When I started to watch season 1, to remind her, it occurred to me that I had watched it about 4 times already, trying to remember anything that happened. Flicking back to season 3, it just looked the same, and I couldn't remember what episode I had watched.last week.
It's that unmemorable, I won't remember watching any of it, very soon.
The Defenders (2017)
It is actually hideous
How is this getting 7.8 on IMDb? Sigourney Weaver, playing the arch villain, walks into a Chinese restaurant, surrounded by the heroes. My partner asks, "Why don't they just kill her?" I reply, "because there wouldn't be a plot". She sighs and starts going to sleep again.
Jessica throws a car through the restaurant window, which floors Electra. She's left stunned on the ground, but Jessica just walks past her with a sneer, strangely neglecting to stomp on her. She joins the other 3 idiots and they form a face-off pose. Very dramatic, but Luke Cage is impervious to Electra, so could just walk up to her. What's he waiting' fo? Danny Rand is told by a kid in jail that he is stupid. He could just use his wealth to break The Hand. Danny actually has a thought. He uses that thought to do something stupider than usual. Even though Danny is very rich, he would never think to hire some people, or buy a gun.
The character, Stick, tells Danny that he's dumber than a bag of rocks. Could Danny be that dumb?