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@pre@boing.world
2025-10-07 20:22:17

Watched Star Trek Section 31, a movie about the off-book starfleet characters trying to stop someone blowing up a quarter of the galaxy.
Might be the worst Star Trek ever made.
A crew with a mercenary ex-empressess from the mirror world, a mole, and no trust between 'em. They don't seem to get on but rescue the galaxy anyway. Maybe blow up a quarter of the mirror galaxy instead. Hurray. Genocide of our own galaxy averted.
Jokes aren't funny, characters aren't convincing, script full of dud. Somehow the murdering dictator is redeemed without any redemption arc.
Only for star trek completionists.
#watching #tv #starTrek

@pre@boing.world
2025-10-15 20:44:22
Content warning: Strange New Worlds S3

Watched season three of Strange New Worlds and it was pretty great.
The Enemy Mine episode with the pilot and the Gorn stranded by the Metrons was a nice bit of retcon.
Chronologically the first holodeck episode ever (Or did Enterprise do one? I forget), and the safeties fail and nearly kill everyone aboard the ship. Tech eh? The the humans must pursue it even if it kills them. I'm not all that keen on holodeck episodes. It always has this false sense of danger where they have some fake reason to have danger so it's not all a game.
Everyone's-a-vulcan episode was stupid and funny. Star Fleet is so casual with the humanity of it's soldiers.
Nurse Chapel is still amazing even though her hair is longer and, unusually, I preferred it short.
Knowing the future in a prequel makes things quite poignant. Kirk and Spock's first handshake. Their first mindmeld. Oh, the adventures they shall have. Playing with that by making Pike know his own future too is nice meta level scripting game.
#watching #tv #strangeNewWorlds #starTrek

@pre@boing.world
2025-12-08 22:39:23

I am quite keen to watch The War Between The Land And The Sea on iplayer.
But we need to consider tactics. Will the folks sit and watch it with me at Xmas? If they would that'd perhaps be better than whatever drivel quiz shows and police car chase stuff they normally make me watch.
If they won't I'll be be postponing it three weeks for no reason.
🤔
Might be nice to watch it in the new bedroom but that probably won't have a bed or a chair until the new year.
#watching #doctorWho #onlyNotDoctorWho #tv

@pre@boing.world
2025-10-06 13:07:52

Watched the new Alan Partridge show on BBC, "How Are You?".
Got a chortle or two from every episode, he's still that same embarrassing cringe character as always. Fun to watch him struggle with reality and, in this case, fail to really grasp mental health.
The character has come a long way since The Day Today and Brasseye. They never would have guessed it back then.
#watching #tv #alanpartridge #bbc