I have watched the latest SNW, but I still havenāt watched any of Picard. Second episode of SNW is not as good as the first, but neither did it piss me off in anyway. In fact, the missus asked whether I thought the show would focus on one character a week.
Looks like they are, and I am fine with that. Itās basically how the 90s shows ran and why we know shitloads about individual crew members from that era. Discovery never really did that to the same extent, first season especially.
Even so, I said the missus that Uhura was a worthy candidate for an episode. Good to see the show immediately fleshing out her character rather than just have her about for lip service.
Each episode so far has given us a story and delved into the back story of a crew member, now, unlike Disco we care for the characters, so much more depth to them. Around that the Episodic storylines are pure TOS with breathtaking use of the new Virtual Wall.
The Science is there and the āouter spaceā shots take their inspiration from work by The Hubble Telescope.
In a shocking twist, that nobody could have seen comingā¦
Mrs P_F has just binged the 1st 3 episodes of SNW and declared it BRILLIANT.
āIt has heartā.
Iām a little bit behind on SNW, but I have just watched the Gorn episode. Mmm. There was good stuff and bad stuff.
First off, I am not going to complain about the dropping of the photon torpedo onto the Gorn ship. Unlike the (admittedly very cool looking) bomber scene from the Last Jedi, the Enterprise was actually over a gigantic gravity well so that actually works.
I liked that the episode did a Jaws with respect to the Gorn (I donāt think they actuallly showed a member of the race) especially if they plan to revisit them later. I also liked that for once, the resolution didnāt involve blowing every other ship out of the sky.
I also liked the general premise - of being able to beat, or at least not get killed by, a superior force by essentially taking huge fucking risks that are all marginally better than the alternative.
There were some bits that annoyed me though. For starters, I would probably have enjoyed it a lot more if Iād watched less films and TV in my life. It feels like a cut and shut of loads of other things. It robs from two Star Trek movies, Das Boot, Aliens and Jaws. It does feel pretty tropey.
The other thing is that Gorn communication method. I donāt know if it makes sense for this show, but what a load of bollocks. A species that has mastered interstellar flight communicating with the disco version of morse code? Meh.
Finally, plot armour is a real issue. We know nothing serious is going to happen to any of the crew members that make it into TOS, so life or death moments with characters like Uhura lose their punch. That may come to hurt the show in this āanything can happenā era.
Gorn were seen before Kirk, in Enterpriseās In a Mirror Darkly. Thatās probably why Lorca has one stuffed. A hint of his true origin.
Anyway, I have seen episode five and my head did not explode because of the body swap thing. Instead, I was delighted to see something that reminds me of Trek from the 90s golden age. Not much going on. A lot of chatting, and dare I say, a lot of fun.
I LOLed several times, starting with the Doctorās hat.
