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Star Trek: Discovery: Whistlespeak (2024)
I loved this episode - the depth of the story, the heartfealt selfless acts...
Sometimes we must go beyond the rules for the sake of life and this is true and typical to what Star Trek is all about. Clearly we should just stand back and appreciate the story that they are trying to tell in this episode.
My opinion is that others should stop trying to sit back and just judge episodes like this one and appreciate the beauty of the story being told without trying to force their ideas of what a Star Trek episode should do.
I enjoyed the wonderful parts that were played by the Captain and Tilly, remembering that Star Trek is about sharing and selfless acts of grace and a message that goes beyond what is only heard.
WELL DONE and thank you for the beautiful story!!!
Star Trek: Lower Decks: Wej Duj (2021)
Thank you for the WONDERFUL ENDING
If anyone on the team of Star Trek: Lower Decks reads this -- I just want to say thank you for the wonderful ending on this episode. I've not had such a good laugh in a long time. You have really made my day. GREAT WORK!!!!
The Prom (2020)
What crummy movie. Their aim is not my entertainment but their agenda.
Started off positive being someone who enjoys musicals and understanding that musicals often challenge controversial issues (think hairspray).
Great names, great acting - seriously crummy story.
I'd be better off watching an educational about fresh food a jungle.
Star Trek: Picard: The End Is the Beginning (2020)
Honestly, does no one get it?
Everyone's off judging the show about this and that -- too much dialog, too little action and visa versa. Do you really think "J.L" would let us down? Additionally, ranting about drug abuse and swearing in Roddenberry perfect future (seriously). Please can anyone recall T'Pal going off the rails on Trelium-D? (Anyway, off topic here).
Please, relax and focus on the story! (I'm so excited at this...) Did you feel some salve being applied to your soul when you realized that all of this is about the loss we experienced when Lt Commander Data died (saving Picard). WOW, I simply can't wait - because I've been hurting on the inside for years about Data's death!
I am so happy, happy, happy, happy, happy., with where this is going and I can't wait to see "Seven of Mine". Thank you everyone for this production. THANK YOU, THANK YOU!!!!
Van der Merwe (2017)
Sure it meets the cultural values of a "Van Der Merwe" joke
A cliche is, "a phrase or opinion that is overused and betrays a lack of original thought."; Culturally speaking "Jan Van Der Merwe" is a fictional-historical person who is just that: a wonderfully-old and ingrained cliche to most Afrikaans speaking South Africans.
YES! The story exaggerates and offends exactly that part of our culture that I too was brought up in and at times it angered me for portraying us in such a blatant way. But as I watched further I REALIZED that it's "JAN VAN DER MERWE" we're talking about here. He is one of the greatest cliches that the Afrikaans speaking culture has ever known. A typical example of a Van der Merwe joke (translated a bit and probably removed half of the punchline but I don't see another way of portraying it here) goes something like this:
(This joke might regarded as vulgar, you are welcome to skip this part if you want)
-----JOKE START----
"Van der Merwe goes to Paris to watch the Springboks take-on the British at the Rugby World Cup. Whilst in Paris, he walks around, gaping and staring at everything - so much so that he walks smack bang into a fire hydrant which hits him so hard on the "privates" that he has to be rushed to hospital where the doctors tell him they have to remove his testicles. Van goes berserk, he bites and snarls at every one and he won't let anybody within 10 meters of him. Eventually they find a South African doctor in the hospital and get him to talk to Van in Afrikaans explaining to Van that they need to remove his "testicles" to which Van replies with relief, "O, okay, I thought they wanted to take my 'rugby test tickets'.
-----JOKE END----
After finishing the movie and giving it some thought I wanted to give a "hurrah" to the main cast and writers who had the very difficult task of playing/writing for rolls that clearly should have been done in the language this cultural FARCE plays-off in (Afrikaans); then I realized that movies are about money and the only way that this film could be opened-up to a wider audience was to do the movie in English instead of Afrikaans -- in my opinion, that was a good (business) call.
This movie addresses a very small part of the greater South African culture and therefore has a small target audience. I was therefore pleasantly surprised to discover this on a USA based streaming service.
A farce must blow everything out-of-proportion, because it offends and it reveals as it portrays things people like as well as the parts we don't. Thank you for a great South African movie!!!
I gave this movie 8 simply because it didn't bore me like many, many other modern South African and/or even Afrikaans movies.
SPOILER:
Nota bene: "The Grandpa negativity was not against "English as a language" but because his granddaughter was about to marry a "Brit" as in a British Citizen. Some research on South African history makes this part of the plot relevant and not incorrect at all!
Star Trek: Discovery: Will You Take My Hand? (2018)
Don't be too harsh
Some people are very hard on the final episode of season 1 but I disagree. Season 1 of Discovery broke all the barriers and the boring old recipes so loose ends are to be expected; this is okay - there is still much time to explain some of the events (if they need explaining at all). If you want, go and watch Star Trek Voyager Season 1 again; it also only had a few episodes and the characters had to each figure their places, having to establish a feeling for one another.
I liked the fact that there was some "closure" in the season finale with a small cliff hanger of whats to be expected; different from previous Star Trek seasons where the season ended with the first half of a double episode and had to wait 6 months or more to see the latter part. Often studios and/or writers try to leave such an intense cliff hanger that it leaves the viewers annoyed. Discovery did this differently in that there is closure, with a small gesture of things to come.
My opinion -- give them some space, it is hard work to write something new within a universe that has existed for so many years; remember other stories are seen for the first time i.e. new creative works and the plot is exciting and unfamiliar; but with Star Trek there are years of history and massive expectation and it will therefore take time, money and effort to draw this new concept into a settled arena.
Star Trek: Discovery: Magic to Make the Sanest Man Go Mad (2017)
This one made me happy
My wife and I watched this episode the first time round and I enjoyed it so much that I watched it again soon after (this I had not done with any of the other episodes - thus far); I had that warm-and-fuzzy-Star- Trekkie feeling whilst doing so.
I enjoyed the honesty from Michael as she took Paul Stamets advice to - just be honest in a relationship - her applying his advice towards Ash Tyler was visible several times after that point, even up to the end.
The poetical ending for MUDD sending him back to where he belongs is in my opinion very true to the character/nature of Star Trek i.e We'll end up doing good, even though you made an enemy of us - loved it.