What is this I'm hearing about people not liking the musical episode in season 2. Is this a joke? One comment even said the songs weren't memorable.
How could anyone not love Christina Chong singing How Would That Feel or Jess Bush singing I'm Ready? They're frikkin phenomenal.
I like the show, but it keeps nostalgia-bating and it's getting annoying. The balance of terror what-if was cool. I don't think I will ever get over that they chose to make a boy band joke instead if doing klingon opera in subspace rhapsody. The wedding episode was fun but after watching it, annoying. I don't need to see ALL the people and things from ToS. It's an okay show...but is it okay because it keeps reminding me about ToS or because it's solid on its own? The answer changes with the episode.
They filmed a version of the scene with Klingon opera instead, but it wasn't nearly as fun in my opinion. Plus, the Klingons were supposed to have felt that the singing was dishonorable, and they been shown to sing Klingon songs on duty.
Yeah, the whole wrap up of Batel's storyline was pretty stupid, NGL.
I don't understand why they didn't just go with the moral dilemma of having to choose between her life or the possibly dozens of baby Gorn that were growing inside her.
I mean, if you want to have a heart-wrenching example of how far Star Fleet is willing to go, in the name of peace and the preservation of innocent lives...leaving Batel to choose whether or not to sacrifice herself, in exchange for them...as well as the prospect of continued peace between the Federation and the Gorn? Wow. Now, that would have been a powerful display of compassion and benevolence.
None of this "Universal Star-child" bullshit. Just a good old fashioned moral dilemma, about the needs of the many, outweighing the needs of the few.
> None of this "Universal Star-child" bullshit.
Bang on. It's the same reason I couldn't stand Discovery. There's a universe ending problem and you alone are the key to solving it? Blech.
Fan fic with higher production values.
I think Batel was a well written character, otherwise.
My entire issue with this season was how they handled the Batel stuff. I thought it was really really interesting and then she just kinda... poof...
Her struggling with being a gorn host wouldve been significantly more interesting and it wouldve made more sense while being sadder.
Somewhere in Season 3 is where I finally completely lost interest. It's been slowly coming for me for a while. It wasn't even a conscious decision, I stopped watching mid episode and haven't cared to start again. I don't even really remember what was going on (some Gorn related thing). At some point I had pulled out my phone and stopped paying attention.
Apparently, this season seems to be controversial, some people really love it and that's great. Not here to hate on it or try to take that away from them. But I think post Discovery Trek really isn't for me and I'm just feeling done.
My interest was lost in the Holo deck episode and I havent been back. Does that episode get better?
to me it's more like post Enterprise that I just can't get into anymore. Time to time I try again though, hoping one day I will magically start to like them.
They boiled down the essence of Enemy Mine into a Gorn episode, fuck the haters this season was excellent.
Terrarium was pawbably the only genuinely great episode this season, and it still didn't really do anything new as there have been several Enemy Mine episodes in past series (The Enemy - TNG, Dawn - ENT). This season also had pawbably the worst SNW episode to date in Four-and-a-Half Vulcans, which was just all kinds of problematic.
Season 3 was pretty good tho.
I can't make it through the Vulcan episode. I feel like the goal was to make it as terrible as possible.
I also really like Season 3, but I do feel it is the weakest of the 3 seasons we got so far.
one word: musical.
It wasn't bad but it wasn't good either
Especially the questionable Vulcan episode...
I keep trying to finish it. But I tuned out part way through, and I'm gonna have to rewind now, and it's so bad.
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