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Fallout: The Target (2024)
Please listen to the comment warning about animal suffering
I read the comment about animal suffering/cruelty further down and thought I watch it anyways. The first seconds of the episode contain puppies (!!) being thrown into an incinerator, yelping while they die.
Skip this, there is absolutely no need to.subject you to this kind of experience, it does not serve the story, it is not necessary for the plot, it's just disturbing for the sake of being disturbing.
The exceeding amount of violence in TV shows is bad enough but the very last thing I need to see is animal suffering as some kind of "shocking effect" in a TV show. The rest of the storyline was acceptable, hence I will not give the lowest possible amount of stars but Jesus Christ skip the first minutes of this.
Star Trek: The Next Generation: Preemptive Strike (1994)
An episode that simple felt ... "wrong"
"Preemptive Strike" continues with the tradition of the previous episodes to "tie up" loose ends of story archs remaining in TNG. This time the producers try to give Ensign Ro an ending that stays close to her "rebellious" nature - and sadly, in my opinion, fail miserably.
For the sake of storytelling, both the character of Ensign Ro and - more drastically - the Character of Captain Picard have been altered to the point where they are hardly recognizable anymore.
Ensign Ro, who used to be confident, rebellious and direct is now weirdly insecure, gets "rescued" from a social gathering by Captain Picard and behaves weirdly docile and submissive in the following conversations. Sure I get it, she is supposed to have a great deal of admiration and respect for Picard but even in the earlier episodes with her this was always combined with a certain "rebellious" and confident touch. (Like her making it a condition to be allowed to wear her jewelry to serve on the Enterprise)
Captain Picards transformation is even worse. What used to be a Character that questions acts against minorities and rebels and would always choose diplomacy and conversations before military action is now incredibly motivated to crush an armed resistance against a militaristic nation which in earlier episodes tortured him to the breaking point.
No conversations with the rebel leaders, no attempts to solve this peacefully, just have Ro infiltrate them and threaten her with court martial (!) if she sabotages this mission in any way.
For the first time in StarTrek Picard takes the role of an antagonistic figure in the show and it does not suit him at all. I do not really understand why the writers decided to go this way but it leaves the viewer with a very unpleasant feeling.
Game of Thrones: The Long Night (2019)
Not a bad episode - if this wouldn't be Game of Thrones
It's pretty difficult to give this episode a fair rating, since by normal TV-Show standards, its not bad at all. The "bad guy" dies in the end, the main characters survive the battle and the army of the dead collapses.
The problem is, this is Game of Thrones we're talking about. A TV-show that is known (and loved) for being unpredictable, for letting people die at any point in the show, the feeling of "no one is safe" made this show so exciting.
Let's start with the beginning of the battle - every commander should know about hammer and anvil tactics. If you have one of the - if not THE best spear soldiers in the seven kingdoms to stop the enemies advance and if you furthermore have one of the best cavalry force in the seven kingdoms as well to smash into the stopped forces and therefore encircle them, the battle is already going pretty well for you.
Of course you might still loose, the undeads are not affected my morale, they have overwhelming numbers and they never retreat - but everything is better than splitting up your already outnumbered forces to have some kind of weird frontal charge against the undead lines which literally sends 99% of your Dothrakis into their death.
It's also interesting, how they thought putting their catapults in FRONT is a good idea so after firing a few (very, very long ranged) shots they're lost.
Remember the moment when the undeads were stopped by the burning trench? Catapult would've been bloody handy there, right? If only we would've placed them BEHIND the lines, like proper lads.
As the battle continues, our "heroes" manage to survive odds, that make you question their mortality. The writers use the method of "the situation looks dire, lets cut to another scene" nearly throughout the whole episode. Jamie and Brienne are overrun by undead - cut. Next time the scene is back to them, they suddenly fight with their backs to a wall. Weren't they overrun a second ago? No? Well, fine. Theon and his archers get swarmed by undead, a cut literally happens when the first undead reaches the archer - after the scene is back on them, they're shown in a pile of fallen undeads.
And let's not talk about the whole Arya thing shall we? Unless the got paradropped by another dragon there is no way she would've managed to get past all the undead forming a circle around the night king, not to mention his generals.
All in all, the episode felt very disappointing, it didn't feel like the whole buildup of "oh no the white walkers are back and they broke through the wall" was brought to a worthy end by just stabbing him. And by the way - to me, this whole "kill the leader and the rest collapses" system is horrible. Feels like the writers watched Independence Day, World Invasion: Battle Los Angeles or nearly 70% of all "earth invaded by aliens" movies and just decided, this whole "evil guys have a leader/mothership/control center that we need to take out and all the others die" is a nice and exciting solution for the white walkers.
Therefore, I can only give this episode a relatively bad rating. If this would not be Game of Thrones the rating would be much better but for the standards and the excitement this show usually provides, this was just a big disappointment.
Star Wars: Episode VIII - The Last Jedi (2017)
Just disappointing
First of all, I really tried my best to give this movie a chance.
I usually tend to react a bit too hard when it comes to logical flaws in movies, so I tried to ignore turbolaser projectiles with ballistic arcs in space or the fact that an entire fleet of first order ships has NOT A SINGLE SHIP that is faster than escaping random rebel ships. Oh and the rebel ships also withstand hours of bombardment, because according to the movie, turbolaser fire in space looses power over distance.
Also its not possible for a few ships of the first order fleet to make a short hyperspace jump to intercept the escaping resistance ships.
Aaaanyway, I can ignore all that. But as most people already said, none of the main characters is interesting or has a deep story. The first order doesnt really feel like a threat, more like a bunch of pirates without a command structure that somehow managed to steal a few ships.
This empty story is filled with obvious merchandise-focussed decisions, like cute little birds that will sell good in the stores but have no story impact whatsoever.
The whole movie felt like a bad Marvel movie, not like StarWars.
Disney should be ashamed to replace thousands of stories people wrote, a whole universe created by fans for fans, with this empty and sad movie.