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Yitian tulongji: Episode #1.3 (2019)
Fun Movie Connection
Not a review, but a movie connection of sorts. In the English subtitles, when Yin Susu and the 5th Brother were in the ocean water hanging for dear life and freezing, he calls out her name in Chinese. However, the English translators decided to call her Rose for that particular scene. I'm not sure if this was intentional or not because they always used her Chinese name up to this point. This particular scene was very similar to the Titanic movie and the female character in that movie was called Rose. I guess someone had a sense of humor and decided to give English-speaking viewers a connection to an English movie.
Another fun fact is that this show has an English-speaking actor in it. So maybe that's why.
The Wheel of Time: Leavetaking (2021)
Equality, but Not Really
I saw the trailer and thought it was an interesting science fiction show. For the very first episode, it was a bit disappointing. Imagine a show saying that something belongs to only men and if a woman touches it it makes it filthy. Many men-centric shows ignore women completely, but none flat out insult women like this. Not to mention, a man was cheating on his wife right before everyone's eyes and the mother tells her son that he will be just like his father. Way to set an example and enforce a stereotype. I was hoping for something more intellectual than what this is. Hopefully, I won't be disappointed with the remaining episodes.
As for this episode, I thought in general, it was a good start for a medieval-type show. The acting, story, and setting were all pleasant.
Fingers crossed.
Tales of the Walking Dead: Blair/Gina (2022)
Love Parker Posey
This is a very weird episode. It is a sci-fi show within a sci-fi show. Two characters get trapped in a Groundhog Day scenario where they have to relive the day over and over in order to figure out how to escape it.
As a Walking Dead episode, it is absolutely ridiculous. I'm not sure who thought up this idea, but you have to watch it as if it has nothing to do with the Walking Dead universe, because it didn't really. It showed us the start of the walkers and could easily have been done without them, since it really had nothing to do with them.
Aside from that, Parker Posey is awesome (kudos to the other characters too).
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds: Subspace Rhapsody (2023)
Dumbest SciFi Episode Ever
The best way to dumb an episode down in any non-musical genre is to create a musical episode, or parts of one at least. An absolutely cringy episode that was forced with a pseudo-scientific explanation.
Please, for the love of Gene Rodenberry, do not ever do this again. It absolutely served no purpose and made a mockery of all that is great about Star Trek and the potential future of humanity and science.
The episode attempts to explain how Star Trek developed subspace communication and why it was needed in both real-life and the show. You can't obviously have a futuristic lifestyle when all ships can't effectively communicate with one another in the infinitude of space. Otherwise, life in space would become secluded and all starships would become separate organizations so to speak.
Carnival Row: Facta Non Verba (2023)
180 Turn
Most of the story was okay and consistent with what we've seen so far. Unfortunately, the story made a u-turn on one subplot.
Somehow, and for no reason whatsoever, the writers decided to make Imogen hate Agreus. After asking him to stay where they were and telling him that she loves him and wants to be able to live without fear with him, the writers decide to have the brother tell Agreus that Imogen is faking it and has never loved him. This change in subplot had no traction and came out of nowhere. It did not fit with the rest of the story but somehow made it into the storyline.
If you want to kill a storyline, that's one way to go for sure. Let's hope they don't end up killing the entire show this way.
The Simpsons: Homer's Adventures Through the Windshield Glass (2023)
Terrible Episode
It started out as funny, but then they started using the female version of dog as an insult over and over again in songs, among other unnecessary rude words. What a terrible decline in public television.
The B-word's use in public television started with the Simpsons many years ago when Bart's dog, Santa's Little Helper, got himself a girlfriend and Bart called her that, which Marge told him not to say and Bart repeated saying that's what she is. However, the use of it as an insult is what degraded public television and many other insults became public domain thanks to the FCC's lack of control.
This episode marked the 750th episode of the Simpsons and had many characters in the opening sequence that we haven't seen in a while. It was a fun sequence to repeat and pause to see all the characters that were snuck in. However, once more, calling Homer, and eventually the audience, the B-word is what made it lose its fun appeal.
Better luck next time!
Lucifer: They're Back, Aren't They? (2017)
Insult to Islam
When Cloey says "If Mohammed cannot come to the mountain, let the mountain come to Mohammed", Marcus, who is later revealed to be Cain, says he doesn't understand what that means. That is a slight on Islam.
Jurassic World Dominion (2022)
The Future is Female
All that we know of Dr. Wu is thrown out the window to make the true architect of gene-splicing a woman. This follows most of the sequels and reboots of the last few years (I'm looking at you The Matrix: Resurrections) with no real after-story to tell. Seeing the old and new cast together was nostalgic, but nothing else of value happened aside from several other actors of color added and no closure on what happened with Owen's friend Barry and Soyona who had minimal scenes.
Charlie's Angels (2019)
Terrible Movie
David Doyle is rolling in his grave. The movie was intended to put men down. Why else tarnish David Doyle's character whom Patrick Stewart played for 40 years. The acting, comedy, and action scenes were subpar. The ending cameos was the only enjoyable part.
The Matrix Resurrections (2021)
A Mockup of Many Movies
Spoiler Alert: This movie copies elements from Monsters, Inc., F8, and a few other movies. Like the last Terminator movie, this reboots The One to a woman adding little or no story and reduces the rebooted Morpheus to a secondary character while elevating the secondary Trinity to the primary role. Thus making both leads female while adding no substance. This might be the start of a new franchise of characters, but only time will tell.
Starship Troopers (1997)
Similar to March or Die (1977)
Both March or Die (1977) and Starship Troopers (1997) are stories about soldiers who mostly die in war. Both of them have team leaders who give them a speech about what would happen to them if they don't follow orders. Both team leaders die at the end and are replaced by one of the soldiers who gives the new batch of soldiers the same speech that they were given.