Reviews

I like Star Trek Strange New Worlds overall and I had liked season 2 so far. Some episodes were really beautiful and the rest were at least above average. Even the one where Spock laughed!

However, incomplete endings like the one in "Hegemony" just make me lose my respect and drive me away. I consider it a cheap trick to bring viewers and I do not think this show needed it.

I mean what exactly do you people think when you cut something sort of exciting in half? Do you actually think it will continue next year where you left it as you left it? Most people don't remember what they ate in the morning.

Star Trek is definitely more than just a sci-fi show. It is dreaming of a better society, a better system. Looking for places to improve. It questions norms, argues. It asks what can be done and how can be done. It tries to give answers. It experiments with ideas, extrapolates thoughts, tries to see how they will work in practice.

For example; identifies money as the cause of some problems. Then removes money and creates a world where money is not needed or money's functionality is provided by other means.

"Ad Astra Per Aspera" is one of those episodes that is less sci-fi but more psychological, sociological and philosophical. It has brought about an unexpected flood of emotions and thoughts.

Excellent text and excellent acting as well. The Star Trek in the recent years have been sort of okay, but I had kinda forgotten that I loved Star Trek. Today, I remembered.

I'll for sure be more aware of 'opportunities to be my better self' and try to seize them. :)

When there is some tense or energetic music in a film, the audience expects something important is about to happen. Something important sometimes happens and sometimes doesn't happen but the thing is you prepare the audience emotionally at certain times and you gotta deliver every now and then. If there is constant background music in a film I consider it fishing the viewers and one of the signs that indicates it is a cheap film.

In this show there is constant tense background music to bait the audience into watching and camouflage the weak content.

Many of the characters in this show and their detailed background stories are not tied to the main story in any way. Except for 4 characters, you could literally replace any character with anyone and anything they do or did could be anything else and it wouldn't matter. You could give them any other personality; you could make them serial killers, green peacers, communists or whatever and it wouldn't matter. You could even completely remove them and it still wouldn't matter. That is the extent of how ridiculously bad this show is. Why these characters exist and why they are detailed don't make any sense.

It feels like a "we made sort of a decent show in the past, whatever we do now will be watched anyway" kind of mindset created this show.

Trying to finish this first season, I felt the discomfort when I need and want to sleep so badly but I have drunk so much coffee and can't fall asleep.

I literally can not find anything not to like about this movie.

Good sounds, colors, camerawork etc.

Interesting story and well told as well. Original unique characters with background stories are brought to life by a very on point cast. Aubrey Plaza suits very well with the cool and self-confident woman figure. Theo Rossi is very convincing in his role.

Even the length of the film is perfect. There is a not a single wasted second in 97 minutes.

This movie gave me a feeling of completeness. It is a very easy watch. It is immersive. It is the first time I've ever rated 10/10.

Do not miss it.

***** Update after the 4th episode: It is waste of time.

***** The comment below is made after the first three episodes. *****

House of the Dragon is built upon the success of Got but it doesn't resemble GoT in terms of the viewer experience. There is some action going on but it doesn't engage the viewers probably because the characters are sort of dull and the text has not shown any promise to be interesting so far. Not to mention GoT was successful but overall quality of the show is also debatable.

It feels to me like the remakes of old successful movies that don't match the original. It is quite common these last couple of years. Some of them even feel like an insult to the original. Unfortunately it is still profitable.

It has not been engrossing like GoT so far but it is not so bad either. It can go either way in the future episodes. It can turn out to be a complete waste of time or we might be watching an amazing show.

I've enjoyed this show for like 20 years and thank you to the creators and everyone involved for that. Unfortunately. "tegridy farms" happened in 2018 and the show has been disappointing since. Streaming Wars part 2 as well as part 1 are just awful and I completely agree with the viewer discretion warning at the beginning that this shouldn't be viewed by anyone. It is so bad it is actually sad.

It is a non-immersive movie with interesting characters being wasted on a non-interesting script.

For a 142 min movie one could expect music and sounds lift viewers up. It this case they turn it into a try not to sleep challenge.

Cinematics deserves commendation but the animations are poor. It is like there is no physics engine used on the winged creatures. Wing movements do not match the body's movements. They just randomly flap wings and fly.

So, overall it is bad if you are into Harry Potter stuff. It is 100% waste of time if you don't care Harry Potter.

Although it is probably easy to make good reviews after Discovery and Picard having lowered the expectations, I believe this one actually shows promise.

Good cast, likable characters, promising storyline, decent acting, and most importantly it feels Star Trek. I am looking forward to future episodes.

**This comment is written after the first 3 episodes.**

It is just sad to see Captain Picard in a cheap shot like this after a great show like Star Trek TNG. This is a new low after Star Trek Discovery. And Discovery was acceptable to a certain level because it was just bad within itself, it didn't ruin anything good. This one is ruining the good memory of Star Trek TNG.

The story is amateurish. It sometimes doesn't make much sense. A number of events are not connected to anywhere and just left in the air. Probably they made some of the characters and events just for the sake of being PC. It is awful.

Star Trek Discovery is an insult to all the great previous work under the name Star Trek and to the fans.

So this is a movie about one of the most significant events in history. And knowing that is pretty much the only thing that makes this movie watchable for over 2 hrs.

Acting was decent. Story telling was dull and it could have been kept between 60 to 90 minutes. It definitely could have been told way more interesting way. Sound, music etc. were bad. It was also not a nice watch visually.

It sure felt like a low budget movie that ten or so friends shoot for the fun of it.