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  1. Roy Focker
    A Wookie wearing clothes?
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    Trek broke its ability to tell stores that make sense with advancing technology. For every generation of the fans, they push the timeline ahead. A feature of some wonder science that nearly destroyed the Enterprise D in the 3rd season STNG that they vowed never to use again is now as common as a toaster. They used to have to go a special room or a kiosk to access things like transporters, holograms or replicators. Now they can carry stuff like that on person. Being able to do the impossible is like breathing for them. Except when the story calls for them not to. Which has always been the case in Star Trek. Normally they would tell us that a nearby space storm is causing inference forcing them to do things the old fashion way. Now the thought doing things like sending holograms over near crossed their minds.
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    I still don't understand why Darem walks around with a human disguise. Production reasons I'm guessing it is because of the CGI makeup costs. It makes no sense in universe. Star Fleet is very pro diversity it is very strange that someone feels the need to hide their race. In the latest episode he goes and visits a bunch of his people and all of them are wearing human face. I repeat again they are among their own, and all decide to appear human to each other.
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    It's season 4 condensed into a movie. Each villain in that deck of cards would have represented a single episode.
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    Stuff happens in the latest episode to raise the stakes and brings back Paul Giamatti. Who I don't find to be the interesting enough of a villain. Star Fleet really went down the toilet if someone like his character is the big bad. The show is trying really hard in this episode to make you care for what happens to these characters, but don't I really care. A problem for shows that have finished making all the episodes for a season before they even air is that they get zero feedback of what the audience thinks. No chances for course correction if they aren't connecting to your characters. Episode also features more stupid gaps in logic. That ship sounds like a dangerous place for training exercise are we the audience supposed to be surprised that something bad happens? In the previous episode SAM in an angry drunk state had superhuman strength. Why didn't they reprogram SAM to fight this threat?
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    Mork.
  7. Roy Focker
    3 observations from the latest episode. 1. I don't like Jayden's speech pattern. First thought it was because it's his 2nd language or his shyness but it comes across as bad acting. Then I watched a video with the actor talking in their normal much higher pitched voice where they said the producers were going to help him to deepen his voice. Now his speaking pattern makes sense. The actor is fighting too hard not to sound like himself. If they wanted a deep voice Klingon they should of hired a deep voiced actor. 2. Fish face Daren what is with the human disguise? Alien faces cgi too expensive? Why not real makeup? What's the in universe reason? For such a progressive leaning show/school it seems odd for a student to be hiding their true self. 3. Does every thing take place in main lobby of the academy? Classes, diplomatic events, sporting events? This multi use room would be fine if it was an assembly hall but it is just a large lobby where people go through to access all other spaces of the academy. Why aren't there more people walking through and disrupting these events?
  8. Roy Focker
    There's plenty of reasons to hate Highlander 2. But I recommend watching it again. Not for the story or for some of the acting choices. Watch it for the production design and cinematography it looks so much better than what today's films look like. For the scenes where they had money to spend Highlander 2 looks way too good for such a bad movie.
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    I'm surprised the latest episode did end before it even began with charges of assault being placed on the war colleges cadets. I assume that it is illegal to transport someone against their consent. What if besides being transported to an embarrassing location one of the freshly showered cadets slipped and impaled themselves after transport? The show is just stupid and annoying. I thought strange new worlds was pushing it with the comedy. Academy follows many of the tropes about school comedies. Where there's some misfits trying to make it with some stuffy squares trying to stop them. But this show doesn't have any stuff squares to act as a comedic foil. Every character is the quirky misfit. This is Seinfeld if every character written as if they are all Kramer. Imagine if Holly Hunter's character wasn't the school's dean, but an unconventional substitute teacher assigned to a class of misfits all on the verge of failure. All the other teachers, coaches and students are played serious. You've seen this countless of times because it works. Instead, everyone is a misfit. Even the characters from the rival school are misfits. The show needs some serious characters to react to the quirky antics of these misfits.
  10. Roy Focker
    Looks like a remake of the 1st Thor movie. With Thor exiled to Earth looking for his Hammer, making human friends until his allies from Asgard come to bring him back home to evil.
  11. Roy Focker
    They're blinded by childhood nostalgia for the Clone Wars. See I never watched the entire series. I just saw a couple episodes each season. Usually the best and worst episodes. His fans only give him credit for the good ones. Average them out and he's just mediocre. If you include his live action it is just more mediocre.
  12. Roy Focker
    Halfway through the 2nd episode. I guess the show is okay, but I find many of the characters to be annoying. I don't know if they're all bad actors are they just gave them bad characters. Holly Hunter, I know is an award-winning actress, but I can't stand her quirky character. Holly Hunter is one of those god awful I refuse to wear shoes in public people. Many of these characters share the same traits: quirky, awkward and annoying. I'm fine with such characters when there's only one of them by series. Dialog is way too modern. In less than 10 years this show will be more dated than the original series because of this. I still think the production design looks cheap and figured out the reason they've got CGI droids and aliens in the background. I rather they used the money for more physical sets. One of the main cadets is a blue skinned fish-face alien. His makeup is all CGI, but I guess they don't have the budget to CGI his face all the time, so the Cadet wears a human face hologram? The logic of this show offends me. In the 2nd episode a cadet is hauled to his seat at very important diplomatic meeting by security. The cadet's uniform is covered in space snot. How dumb is security? Bringing in a cadet covered in snot isn't a good impression. This is especially stupid when we see them changing cadet's clothes through some sort of a transporter dressing room. Why didn't security stop off there first? I think this show is trying too hard to connect with the Zoomers. Is that what the current generation is called? I'm no Zoomers but even they should be offended by such pandering. This show has potential and isn't that bad, but I feel it needs a course correction to focus on what works and everybody being the quirky character is not it.
  13. Roy Focker
    I'm about ready to mark all AI trailers as spam. It is bad enough that people have to post every single official image for every single movie. Here's the same official image was already posted here last week but here it is again with a different font. The same images repackaged is not new information. AI trailers are even worst. They are garbage that no-talent thieves spam on YouTube to steal views from actual official creators and actual fan creators.
  14. Roy Focker
    100% true. If you loved Ahsoka and Mandalorian Season 3 well I got good news for you. Filoni is the world's most luckiest hack.
  15. Roy Focker
    I'm sorry but all this is just AI slop. It makes for some pretty screen grabs and looks good in short clips, but it is just slop. There are cuts every few second because the technology isn't there for a longer takes. Resulting in bad edit. Actors look and sound the part, but performances are robotic. These hacks are capitalizing off of fan nostalgia more than Disney is. Using AI to give fans what they wanted to see back in 1990 with the original actors. It is nice to see a young Luke Skywalker again but that's the only good these things going for them. Remember when fan films were actually real films.
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