Strange New Worlds season 2

[Colonel Kira's Left Tit]

lol, that was amazing.

 

[StarMan™]

Brilliant. Jack Quaid absolutely knocked it out of the park.

"Their references are oddly specific" - we now have a LD reference within a SNW episode. Heh.

Spock's disconcerting attempts at humor were perfect, as was Boimler's reaction to it.

Incredible all round, and surprisingly touching - Una in particular. Ad Aspera Per Astra.

And the ending was wonderfully goofy.

 

[Colonel Kira's Left Tit]

Brilliant. Jack Quaid absolutely knocked it out of the park.

"Their references are oddly specific" - we now have a LD reference within a SNW episode. Heh.

Spock's disconcerting attempts at humor were perfect, as was Boimler's reaction to it.

Incredible all round, and surprisingly touching - Una in particular. Ad Aspera Per Astra.

Super glad you dropped your shields, so to speak, and are enjoying the show for what it is. It's fucking brilliant, IMHO.

 

[whisky]

My arm doesn't normally do this, new favourite Spock quote.

 

[CaptainWacky]

Every time it did a dramatic zoom on Spock smiling I cracked up. Boimler was literally the viewer who's been saying "hey this version of Spock doesn't fit the timeline!" and he learned to relax and just let it it be (while also possibly inadvertently beginning the end of the Spock/Chapel relationship, oops!) Maybe all the nerds can chill out and be like Boims.

Jonathan Frakes really deserves a lot of credit for his direction here: Boimler and Mariner were recognisable as their LD selves while still being just about believable as (somewhat wacky) Starfleet officers fromt he future. All the emotional parts worked perfectly too.

Good to see Travis and Hoshi getting some love!

Now new episode until August 3rd, I wish they'd just given us this as a bonus and kept new ones on Thursdays. I also wish they got twenty episodes a season though, so...

 

[whisky]

I'm pretty sure I am going to watch it again

 

[whisky]

Rewatch just noticed he said Riker when he climbed onto the saddle.

 

[The Tomtrek]

that was delightful

 

[Colonel Kira's Left Tit]

I still don't fully understand how this show is so consistently good, given everything else that's happened over the past 25 years or so.

 

[SAUSAGEMAN]

My arm doesn't normally do this, new favourite Spock quote.

I liked when he said "live long and prosper"

 

[CaptainWacky]

Now new episode until August 3rd, I wish they'd just given us this as a bonus and kept new ones on Thursdays. I also wish they got twenty episodes a season though, so...

I may be wrong about this! I was just going by Google saying episode 8 was Aug 3rd but they not have taken the surprise drop of episode 7 into account.

 

[The Question]

What's going on with Rebecca Romijn's eyebrows? They keep going from human to vulcan and back. It's fuckin' weird. Also, why the fuck does nobody on the Enterprise refer to their superior officers by rank?! I swear to fuckin' god, it's like the little Mexican dude thinks the Enterprise is a taco truck instead of a starship with a chain of command.

 

[Cassie]

I don't want the ST cartoon, so probably this was my least favorite episode. It was cute, though.

 

[StarMan™]

Super glad you dropped your shields, so to speak, and are enjoying the show for what it is. It's fucking brilliant, IMHO.

Thanks! It's like night and day.

Now new episode until August 3rd, I wish they'd just given us this as a bonus and kept new ones on Thursdays. I also wish they got twenty episodes a season though, so...

August 3rd is the penultimate episode (the musical); I believe episode 8 is still going ahead as planned.

And yes, the number of episodes is a shame. I think there's a sweet spot of 12 -16. 10 is more than enough for a serialized series (or in Trek's case, about 4-5 too many).

 

[Mentalist]

Charades

Sorry, heatwave, I'm slightly behind, but I must review each episode.

A comedy episode that knows it's a comedy episode and is unafraid to lean into the premise so much so that it felt rather sitcom-y in parts, but I didn't mind it because Ethan Peck is very, very good and makes it impossible to not enjoy the ensuing hijinks of becoming fully human. They did balance this out with some real character development, though. While it's obvious from the get-go that this is not an episode that is taking itself seriously --and neither should the viewer-- it deftly avoids just being a farce with some strong character moments, especially with Spock and Amanda. Again, this isn't an episode that deserves to be overanalyzed (it won't stop me), but everyone (including his mother) does take this really serious thing that has happened to Spock rather lightly!

Lucky Janeway wasn't calling the shots.

Also, it's always been my understanding that being a Vulcan doesn't inherently make you emotionless. It takes a lifetime of training and dedication to suppress and control the extreme emotions that Vulcans are born with. With this LOGIC, human Spock should be even more reserved with the lesser burden of human-only emotions, unless something inherent in Vulcan physiology is at play.

OK, I KNOW it doesn't matter. I can't help myself!

Also, when they brought the prosthetic ears out, they were brushing against the fourth wall.

I'm going to be "fun at parties" when it comes to the musical, right?

Anyway, I greatly enjoyed this; it was just fun. Ethan Peck deserves all the plaudits, but Jess Bush was also great. I really love how we get so many more little character moments and "life on board" moments in this show. I admittedly dropped Discovery after season 2, but I felt nothing about any of them. SNW has remedied that in a big way by realising that the grand strokes of Star Trek only matter if you care about the crew first.

It does seem obvious when you say it.

 

[Colonel Kira's Left Tit]

This show is just so damn fun I don't really care what they do. And it seems like they can do practically everything.

 

[The Question]

Maybe if the characters were a little less of this:

all the time.

 

[Colonel Kira's Left Tit]

Maybe if the characters were a little less of this:

all the time.

Kick back, dude. Put your feet up, grab a beer and enjoy something for a change.

Also, bonus for three-boobed Total Recall chick reference.

 

[The Question]

Kick back, dude. Put your feet up, grab a beer and enjoy something for a change.

I love baseball. Probably wouldn't love it quite so much if every single player was acting like the goofy-ass mascot, though. Same deal here.

 

[CaptainWacky]

Also, it's always been my understanding that being a Vulcan doesn't inherently make you emotionless. It takes a lifetime of training and dedication to suppress and control the extreme emotions that Vulcans are born with. With this LOGIC, human Spock should be even more reserved with the lesser burden of human-only emotions, unless something iherent in Vulcan physiology is at play.

I think there was a quick line saying the way humans experience emotions is different and I took that to mean he wasn't trained to suppress specifically human emotions and that's why he went emotion-nuts.