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  1. Roy Focker
    Giving me Spider-Man 3 vibes of too much plot for one movie.
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    Jared Leto going to be in Dune!
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    Maul died in Episode I. Everything your eyes saw indicated death. The retcon excuse of his hate for Obi-Wan kept him alive is the dumbest thing. Barely knew eachother. During the entire duel Obi-Wan wasn't a threat to Maul. He got cut in half because he underestimated Obi-Wan. Somehow During the time he was falling down that shaft he realized Obi-Wan was his most hated enemy and managed to think straight enough to magnify all of his hated? I
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    It sure felt like a series finale. It closed all loose threads introduced in the first episode. One thing I can't accept is the logic behind many of the character's motives. Calib's mom is mad a HH for what reason? What did she expect to happen? She took part in a robbery someone got killed. Of course, you're going to do some time. I don't still see what HH did wrong. I'd describe Paul's performance as trying to do Beetlejuice with none of the charm. How does a common space pirate become a leader an alliance of planets? And do these planets have against the Federation? They were originally all independent worlds who didn't want to join the Federation that are mad the Federation didn't give them stuff. I don't understand why anyone would follow such a crude person like Paul's character. Imagine an entire country following such a crude person in real life ... oh I see what they did there. Tig can't act. But does a good with this character. I had teachers that were this boring. Not a very entertaining performance. Same goes for a lot of the characters. Little personality and boring to watch but brings an element of realism.
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    Latest was probably the best episode of the season. A legitimate good episode. I still question the intelligence of Star Fleet. Earlier on in the episode the command staff start sharing notes trying to guess what the bad guy's plan is. It is pretty obvious. You'd have to be a complete idiot not to figure it out. They're bunch of idiots.
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    Latest episode once again stars the atrium set. Funny how at any hour of the day or night this giant heavily traffic area can become the private, quiet meeting space for these handful of cadets. Holly, The Doctor and Sam go to see her fellow hologram people. Who naturally make their own environment look like the Academy's atrium to make the visitors feel more comfortable. My current distaste for AI slop has grown to a dislike of AI based characters. The Doctor, Sam and even Data. I don't care what happens to these characters. Despite how they act these artificial characters are not real. I see these characters as AI chat bots. Real people were denied positions in Star Fleet because of AI. I'm now Doctor Pulaski fan.
  7. Roy Focker
    A Wookie wearing clothes?
  8. Roy Focker
    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.
  10. Roy Focker
    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.
  13. 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?
  14. 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.
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