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thegeminisage · 6 months

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tng update of the evening. we did "the last outpost" and "where no one has gone before." verdict: watchable?

"the last outpost" is the ferengi episode. i actually had fun here; i loved data's finger trap and how it tied into the overall story (we have to band together to unstick ourselves), the ferengi were decently funny, goerdi getting stuck upside down was funny, nobody was too annoying. did sigh deeply when all the ferengi saw tasha and started gasoing because they wouldnt believe a WOMAN was allowed to wear CLOTHES. we were doing so well

oh also shoutout to when the entire spaceship was about to freeze to death. which is why children shouldnt be here. and crusher was like "i was tempted to give wesley a sedative, but..." and picard was like "you shouldn't" and she was like "but i'm his mother and i love him" and picard was like "yeah well he deserves to meet death awake" and she was like "is that a male perspective" FIRST OF ALL WHY ARE WE MAKING THIS ABOUT GENDER YET AGAIN WHY ARE ALL OF CRUSHER'S SCENES ABOUT HOW SHE'S A WOMAN. secondly they're both insane it is obviously so much kinder for him to be sedated thats why they put their kids to sleep first on the fucking titanic. when peasants from 1912 have more common sense than a starship captain lmao

anyway aside from those two fumbles i would call that episode solidly watchable. i even had fun at some points (funny fight scene, jonathan frakes asked a question). i can see that this could be a good show if they could get out of their own way

more mixed feelings about "where no one has gone before" because while it was the first time i actually liked wesley (he was just a nice kid behaving and being nice to that poor silver guy while being interested in his work!) the episode immediately invalidated all of that by going but wesley is SPECIAL we have to let him be an ENSIGN so he can STAY ON THE BRIDGE and DO WHATEVER HE WANTS and also not even ask his helicopter mom first.

it's bonkers to me because most of the time wesley seems to get away with murder but the one time he had a reasonable thing to say to an adult he got told to buzz off. and i'm sure next time he's being annoying the narrative will jump to making excuses for him again. i think i could also like wesley for being a bright and kind kid but ONCE AGAIN we cannot get out of our own way here.

i liked the concept of the episode - like shore leave but serious - but it also feels like it's way too early for this kind of ep. i wanna know what these people are like normally before i know what they're like when their thoughts are becoming reality and i still don't know. i'm barely convinced that they're friends instead of friendly coworkers and they're pulling out the deep shit. worf's pet pig and picard's mom were fine, also, but i did not like the upsetting thing with tasha's cat and YET ANOTHER mention of the rape gangs. she is the fucking janice rand of this series gene roddenberry must have had some kind of issue about blonde women. i did read somewhere that she left the show bc she wasn't happy so that bodes SUPER well i'm sure

that said i did unironically enjoy the scifi premise of the ep which is "what's at the border of the universe" because i think about that all the time to scare myself even though i know "border of the universe" doesn't work like that. i also really liked the cgi. so that was a mixed bag

except i continue to want good things or even just more meaningful screentime for characters like tasha geordi or worf bc i think they're interesting and i wanna know more about them but star trek said <3 no

#personal #star trek blogging #tng lb #i'm not really clear on how much geordi 'sees'...sometimes hes like i cant see like you all do and then sometimes he can see like #holo images or w/e #i wanna know why a klingon is serving aboard a federation ship #i wanna know why tasha is so goddamn tense ALL the time i mean i guess i know but i feel like there's so much potential there #that will not be explored at all #also i want jonathan frakes to ask more questions

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kevin-sedai · 7 months

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The show is gaining some traction and being recognized and praised and hopefully it'll get a lot more popular, its numbers aren't bad but they're not great either. The episode count is a huge problem they should be getting at least 10, ideally 12-13 eps a season, they have to do so much in so little time and they're doing an amazing job with what they have, s1 fell victim to covid and them having a main character leave and having to reshoot things without actors or locations, I think they've proved that they know what they're doing and the respect they have for the books and the characters, I really hope we get at least 8 seasons, we still haven't had a single complete great adaptation of a high fantasy book series, GOT doesn't count bc the books aren't complete the show was a mess in the last 2 seasons and it's fantasy adjacent. You can't just say you want the next GOT and then give them 8 eps when even thrones got 10 and it has a third of the number of books of WOT, these streamers forget how big of a risk GOT was at first no one wanted to do it it's by taking risks like that you get the next stranger things or breaking bad (which didn't break out (haha) until s3 or GOT which exploded in popularity by s2/3.

100% this. I think a lot of people forget that season 1 had to stop a few times because that was during Covid, so it wasn't going to be perfect. It was going to be choppy and awkward, moreso at the end, bc the situation they were in was choppy and awkward. I thought they were doing fine up until 6/7 when the pandemic shut them down. They did their best.

It will always baffle me that they only give them 8 episodes. That is two whole hours that can be used to do the world building or character building they want/need to do. This world and cast are too large and diverse for them to cram it all in 8 one hour (sometimes less, sometimes more) episodes. I loved the last few episodes. But, it felt rushed when all of a sudden, everyone is in Falme fighting. The Whitecloaks were only in one episode for maybe 15 minutes and now they're in Falme? Two more episodes could have given them time to cut back to them going to Falme. And don't get me wrong, I don't fault the show for that sudden jump. They had to wrap it up bc they ran out of time, bc they only get 8 episodes. And that's just one criticism I have of the season that points back to that, as most of my criticisms do.

I mentioned in an ask I got last week that I don't keep up with ratings and that I'm just here for the ride bc I love this story and the characters that I'm happy we got anything. There are two people I got to try to watch it. One is still watching it, I explained a few things about it, and she is enjoying it. The other person couldn't get past ep3 of last season, the biggest complaint being that she thought it was overdramatic. Most other people I know irl dont even know the show is going on. So, I said I wasn't surprised if the ratings aren't all that good for what I've seen. It's a small sample size, but I wouldn't have been surprised if mostly other people had similar experiences.

And I 100% agree on the GoT comparison. The first time I saw the "It's the new game of thrones" on a headline, I got so mad. It's not fair to put that on a new show when GoT was so popular in its hey day and then ended so badly that some fans can't even stomach it. Basically telling people that they get another shot with this show at a good fantasy show, and then have them be disappointed when it's not like the GoT they knew before that show spiraled.

I'm glad to hear that the show is getting some recognition. I'm glad for any bc I'd love to see it keep going. I love these characters. Changes and all. The scene with Mat made me sob, and I'm not kidding. Even the scene when Rand denied Ishamael, I got choked up. I hope it keeps going❤️

#i hope this made sense and didn't come across as rude at any point anon!#asks #wot show spoilers

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