Hello my beautiful watchers and welcome to another video from my series "Quick thoughts
on..." in which I talk briefly about the next episode
of Star Trek Discovery.
As I promised before, unlike my videos I do about episodes of Star
Trek, Star Trek The Next Generation and Star Trek
The Animated Series, my videos about Discovery will be much shorter and mostly spoiler-free.
Now this is episode 3, called, "Context is for Kings".
I wonder why I have pewdiepie flashbacks.
If you have seen my previous two videos I did about this series, which is available
on CBS All Access in the USA, on cable TV in Canada and on Netflix
everywhere else, you know that to say it politely I didn't like them.
Some people would say I hated them, but that's not very precise, I didn't have
ANY emotional reaction to anything from those episodes, except the Klingons.
I HATE what they have done with my favourite alien race.
This third episode is a huge improvement for me, because for the
first time I felt something really positive.
And it was in the first scene, where Michael and a few
other criminals are in a shuttle, without any specific details I can say just that the
process how they got to the Discovery was pretty interesting,
actually almost exciting.
But my positive reactions went down immediately after we moved to the Discovery.
First, let me talk a bit about the crew of the Discovery.
Short version - everybody is an asshole.
I thought "Three episodes in, and I haven't seen a character which I could
like.
That must be a record."
But that has changed today.
Yes, during the first episode we met Saru, who was kind of interesting, and during the
third episode we meet Cadet Tilly, who is actually the only
truly likeable character on the show so far.
There is a female security officer.
She's a bitch.
Really, how could people like her get to Starfleet?
We have seen different security officers on different shows, both male and female, both
black and white, but this is the first time I have met a security
officer who I honestly want to shout SHUT UP every time
she speaks.
The arrogance meter readings are out of scale with this one.
The good thing is we meet Saru again, he is this time the first officer of the Discovery.
But he's also a dick.
At least at the beginning, in the end of the episode it looks like he will become a bit
likeable.
Then there is Captain Lorca.
What can I say about him?
The actor said in an interview something like (I'm paraphrasing) "Captain Lorca is
a bit fucked up in the head".
I would not say it better myself.
Another character I can't like.
I have to talk a bit about the white guy.
He's a mushroom scientist or some shit, and he's the worst
actor I have seen in many, many years.
Every single time he tries to show a human emotion, his face
starts to do weird grimaces, and it looks like his face will literally explode.
When I've seen it for the first time I thought it was really funny,
but because he was doing it all the time, I started to feel
pretty bad, I mean I started to feel like I'm making fun of a mentally handicapped person.
Or is he an alien who pretends he is a human actor
and he desperately tries to mimic human emotions?
No clue.
Oh and why do they fill the screen with C++ code and pretend it's some scientific data?
But then there is Cadet Tilly.
And congratulations, writers, you managed to create a likeable character,
who actually feels and behaves like a human!
Hooray!
But don't get me wrong, the writing still sucks.
The worst bit is the dialogue, I mean we have the "privilege" to hear such brilliant lines
like "You are one of my best friends" "we know
each other since school", or "I didn't come here to make friends".
You know, cliché lines which only really bad writers use?
And there is one huge action sequence.
Oh yes, the action sequence.
I am sorry but I have to talk a bit about it, it was the funniest thing
I have seen in a long time.
I mean they rip off Alien.
Yes, they are on a spaceship, running through corridors and they are hunted by a monster,
and the monster is Pinky!
From Doom 3.
And my favourite scene so far, Michael on all 4 running through
a Jeffries tube, while being chased by Doom's Pinky demon,
and she's loudly reciting passages from I guess Alice in Wonderland.
I would really love to know what drugs are the writers on, because a sane
person could never write something like that.
I mean it was absolutely hilarious, but I have a feeling
it was supposed to be scary.
Overall, we have finally seen the Discovery and its crew, and I have finally seen a character,
which I actually like.
What a success, right?
I was laughing through most of the episode, even
through all of the death scenes.
But the problem is I think they were trying to create something
scary.
So the opening credits still suck, I'm not going to repeat it in every video, the writing
is horrible, the acting is in some cases OK,
in other cases horrible, but as I said, I watched the whole
thing without feeling the need to check my email, and I was laughing for like 95% of
the episode.
So, I would give this episode 5 / 10.
It's clearly an improvement, but I still can't understand how
the writers got their jobs.
So, that's all I'm going to say for this episode, if you enjoyed my brief
spoiler-less review feel free to hit that thumbs up button, if you like what I do on
this channel check my other videos, you should see some links
to some playlists on screen right now, and see you next monday
when I'll talk a bit about the next episode of Star Trek Discovery, or check this channel
later this week for my videos about the next episodes of Star
Trek and Star Trek: The Next Generation.
Until then, thanks a lot for watching and bye.
A quick PS - I started to watch the Orville.
I LOVE the show.
Wish I could say that about Star Trek.
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