The last season of Killing Eve just wrapped up. What a shitshow, they had no idea how to end it well, or what to do. I loved the first two seasons, the third was awful, this last, unbearable. It was all over the place! … What was all that nonsense with the other lesbian killer on that island? … Oh look, they’re going to run off together and live happily ever after! Oh no, they aren’t! …That ridiculous thing on the party boat, w.t.h.? … What’s Eve going to do with her life now? I hated every character and wished they would all die (even Carolyn, who I liked the best).
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Yes, interested to know what you thought The Burn might be.
Still on the topic of Star Trek, I couldn’t get into Lower Decks. I was assured it was the be all and end all of modern comedic Trek, but the character of Mariner was just too hard to bear on the off chance there was something else good to see. One episode was enough.
At the beginning of the season, Michael sends her special Angel Suit With Added Time Crystals off back the way she came to blow up. I assumed that the suit had gone back into the wormhole and exploded partway, and the detonation of the crystals within the wormhole (in time) had set off The Burn however many years in the past it was.
The idea that the perfect protagonist had accidentally destroyed the Federation and killed a bazillion beings while violating the future laws on time travel would have made a much more interesting storyline than “psychic alien baby throws tantrum”.
This is Us
I liked the pilot. Watched the next two or three episodes and lost interest.
I don’t remember a specific thing that bothered me. I just didn’t find the continuing story that interesting.
I may give it another chance in syndication. Watching the show daily sometimes helps with slow paced dramas.
Hmm, I thought it was just me. This Is Us was a wonderful movie, and just watching the first episode lets you get the gist of the story. Like you, I felt no need to go further.
Interesting.
Fer crissakes, ANYTHING but psychic alien baby throwing a tantrum! That was so. . . just complete shit. You had a very good idea - I would have been very happy with that - but then almost anything would have looked like Shakespeare next to what they came up with. It’s things like that which gave me NO confidence in Strange New Worlds. My experience with SNW would qualify for a thread titled, “What the fastest you’ve gone from doubting a series to loving it.”
Not sure if anyone cares, but the second season dropped in April. We’ve only watched the first two episodes but it directly addresses the previous season’s ending.
The Orville, three episodes. I loved the idea of a funny Star Trek, but by episode 3 it was clear that this was no longer the premise. “About a Girl” was a terrific episode, but it really should have been on a different series, like Discovery (which premiered three days after “About a Girl” aired). There really isn’t room in my viewing schedule for an unfunny Orville.
Troi had some storylines, and was involved in romances with both Riker and Worf I believe.
She was a strange character, both progressive in that she was trying to add some feeling and empathy to the ship command but also regressive in the unique and tight outfit they had her wear rather than a uniform.
Her main function was to hang around and state the blatantly obvious:
TROI: Captain, I sense … hostility.
PICARD: You cow! A chair could sense hostility!
Except when it wasn’t obvious, and you could really use a good empath, and like every time her powers were on the fritz that day. “I sense … nothing!”
I rather have a telepath than an empath. Less ambiguity.
But 99.999% of the time, it was obvious to anyone alive and conscious.
To be fair the villain in Sliders was ultimately dealt with and the one in Quantum Leap only appeared in a few eps.
At least they didn’t have her in a Betazoid wedding dress.