Sunday is SciFi Day
Oct. 30th, 2017 07:13 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
chris_gerribThanks to the vagaries of my schedule and the technology of DVRs, Sunday is SciFi day at Casa Gerrib Norte. Herewith are my thoughts on the two SF series I'm following:
The Orville
Ye Gods and little fishes! When The Orville decides to get on a soapbox, they really get on the box! This week's offering was set in a clone of 21st Century America, right down to frappes (or whatever they call those damned coffee-flavored milkshakes) in which whether you live or die depends on how many social media votes you get. The point was valid, but delivered with the grace and subtlety of a wrecking ball. What's worse, where here they could have at least skipped the Hollywood ending, we get said ending with a side of scrambled brains a la Red shirt.
Star Trek: discovery
Again, not exactly a subtle episode. We go to the Star Trek standard episode #16, the Time Loop (tm). Here it's done a bit better than usual in that Harcourt "Harry" Fenton Mudd is causing said loop, but otherwise pretty standard stuff. I'll also agree with Camestros Felapton and note that the ending felt very underwhelming given the gravity of what we'd seen before. Still, all in all more watchable than The Orville.
The Orville
Ye Gods and little fishes! When The Orville decides to get on a soapbox, they really get on the box! This week's offering was set in a clone of 21st Century America, right down to frappes (or whatever they call those damned coffee-flavored milkshakes) in which whether you live or die depends on how many social media votes you get. The point was valid, but delivered with the grace and subtlety of a wrecking ball. What's worse, where here they could have at least skipped the Hollywood ending, we get said ending with a side of scrambled brains a la Red shirt.
Star Trek: discovery
Again, not exactly a subtle episode. We go to the Star Trek standard episode #16, the Time Loop (tm). Here it's done a bit better than usual in that Harcourt "Harry" Fenton Mudd is causing said loop, but otherwise pretty standard stuff. I'll also agree with Camestros Felapton and note that the ending felt very underwhelming given the gravity of what we'd seen before. Still, all in all more watchable than The Orville.
“What If They Made a Star Trek Series -
Date: 2017-10-31 02:28 pm (UTC)“And Nobody Really Cared?”
I am fascinated by the concept of “peak media” - that there's just so much of everything available now that no one thing matters!
[Or people: Zoe Kazan is a smokin' honey and a very cute, vivacious girl who would have made a huge splash in the 1960s. Ever heard of her? I'd bet not…]
Just so, you can find fan-made Star Trek productions every bit as good as the Original Series, some better, and one so good it got sued!
Meanwhile, the latest (presumably “official”) series is simply, literally overlooked. I've heard it's uneven but generally competent; that's nice…