I know what Le Creuset is, but I know nothing else of which you speak
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Rebecca Ferguson is MacGuyvering the shit out of Silo S2. Or Watneying the shit out of it.
Or both.
Love Rebecca Ferguson
Great actress.
And I maintain that it was supernatural that Hayley Atwell in MI: Dead Reckoning managed to make Rebecca look like “oh, she’s got a nice personality.”
Finally caught up on Silo…
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In the books, silo 17 is said to be completely pitch black except for the IT levels. I know they can’t feasibly do that for TV, but the depiction that they came up with is still on point. I get about as creeped out seeing it as I did reading about it.
The show is well acted and looks great, but I don’t love everything. The entire Judicial subplot was not in the books (not even sure Judicial gets more than a passing mention IIRC) and is the weakest part of the show. The Mechanicals getting framed for killing Meadows was comically contrived.
…and Lower Decks.
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God I’m gonna miss this show.
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Is there potential for a Lower Decks spinoff?
Never say never, but there haven’t been any rumors of one. Shows currently under development at Paramount:
Strange New Worlds
Starfleet Academy
Untitled live-action comedy series
And Prodigy is being shopped around to other studios.
There must be.
Maybe it was one last meta joke on TNG/DS9.
Lower Decks was the most Star Trek show there was post-TNG until SNW came along.
I never liked the idea of Star Trek: Section 31, but I held out hope that it would at least be interesting. Then the bad teaser trailer came out, but I held out hope that it was just a bad edit. Then the reviews started trickling out this week, with the most optimistic take being Rolling Stone ranking it 11 out of 14 (behind Insurrection and ahead of Nemesis, Into Darkness, and Final Frontier), and I could’ve lived with that.
Now the movie is out and it’s really profoundly bad in a way that challenges what it means to be a “bad” Star Trek movie. It’s easily worse than Nemesis and Final Frontier, and that I can’t confidently slot Section 31 below Into Darkness is a huge indictment of both movies. I’m sure it had a lower budget than any of the feature films, but I’m also having trouble thinking of a worse 2-part episode from any Trek series. It’s big yikes with vanishingly few redeeming qualities.
Spoilers
The movie is set in the prime universe 2320s, roughly 70 years after Discovery S1/S2, 30 years after Undiscovered Country, and 40 years before TNG. Control, which was destroyed in Discovery S2, is inexplicably back, so that’s stupid. Also, Control is… Jamie Lee Curtis?? In addition to Mirror Georgiou, we get Lieutenant Rachel Garrett (who would go on to be captain of the Enterprise-C 20 years later) as a sort of Starfleet observer. The rest of the main characters mostly don’t really matter.
The existential threat, because you can’t not have one in Trek these days, is a stolen mirror universe device smaller than a basketball that can destroy an entire quadrant of the galaxy (taken at face value, about 25 billion star systems). The plot hole that defuses basically all of the drama around this weapon is that we know a quarter of the galaxy doesn’t get destroyed because, well, this is the prime universe where TNG/DS9/Voyager/Picard/Lower Decks/Disco S3-S5 will happen in their future. All that’s left is to figure out which of these stooges die along the way, but we know that’s not Garrett because, again, she’s going to buy the farm on the Enterprise-C 20 years later.
We come to find out that the device was stolen and brought to the prime universe on behalf of a former love interest of Georgiou’s whom she subjugated on her way to becoming Terran Emperor. Given that this takes place some 100 years after Georgiou assumes power, the movie makes no attempt to explain how this guy both crossed into the prime universe and traveled decades into what would be his future. (Georgiou’s time travel is explained in Discovery S2/S3.) What’s worse, this supposed arch villain isn’t even in 80% of the movie, and we’re clearly expected to care at the end when Georgiou cries after killing him. I don’t care about this dipshit because you didn’t give me enough story to care about.
There are a handful of bright spots, although each comes with caveats. Michelle Yeoh plays a fine antihero, but only if you buy her playing someone as dark as Mirror Georgiou (I never have, although she’s way more believable than Scott Bakula playing Mirror Archer), and her bread-and-butter onscreen talents are kept on a leash for a huge part of the movie. Sam Richardson excels in a very Sam Richardson role, although his character’s (and many others’) potential is squandered. Garrett is a decent enough character and a nice nod to near-future Trek canon, but her mere presence on this mission is pretty problematic given what we know about Starfleet and S31 just 50 years from now.
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You’re a brave man and we thank you for your service.
I’ll wait for SNW.
Don’t get me started on Control. Discovery was supposed to be taking it into the far future where it could do no harm, but Georgiou killed it so there was no reason to go through with the time jump but they did anyway. Just layers of bad writing.
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How the fuck is it (1) alive and (b) in this time period and not in the far-future with Disco?
I don’t have Paramount+ right now. I was eying this as something to make it worth buying a month, but I guess I shall save my $8.
This guy is a Trek super nerd (while having a reasonable take on things), and he has similar feelings towards the movie.
I haven’t watched Steve in a while but I agree with pretty much all of his takes that don’t involve Discovery (he’s been too soft on it for my taste) and Lower Decks (he found it unfunny). He’s far from a hater and at least watches with an open mind, so to lose him means you either just missed his tastes (like his sense of humor, which, c’mon man) or you made something really, really bad.
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If you watch his take it’s definitely the latter.
I saw about 20 minutes of Section 31. The motley crew of misfits introduction was the nail in the coffin.
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Severance continues to be just so unnerving.
Severance S2 E4: what the absolute fucking fuck?
Severance S2 E4 was, I’m sure coincidentally, very Lynchian.
Here's my theory:
Helly is the only outie with access to what happens on the Severed floor, so is the only one who can know who her innie is. Jolted by her innie’s act of selflessness in the S1 finale, she has realized that her innie is the person she could have been had she not been born/raised in the absolutely fucking crazy world of the Egans.
She uses her position to get her outie inserted into the innies’ team building exercise to experience what it would be like to be the better version of herself. That selfish, Eganesque act leads directly to Irv’s “suicide by cop” when she can’t help but still be outie Helly (i.e. a fucking bitch).
She told Mark “I didn’t like myself on the outside.” Probably the only true thing she’s said in quite a while.