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The Flash: It's My Party and I'll Die If I Want To (2023)
Not really a review, but more of a question...
I've been enjoying the episode and the series so far, as I usually do the show as a whole...
I've only watched about five minutes of the episode so far, though it seems that it'll be a good one full of guess characters, visiting for Barry's birthday (while from the teaser, I already know that they're going to bring Oliver Queen back, which will surely be great!)...
Anyway onto my question and the main point of this "review"...
I'm currently watching this episode and I have a quick question...
Is Cider something else in the U. S. than it is in Europe?!
As here, it's a type of alcohol (such as Bulmers, called Magners in the U. K.), as somebody just gave it to Iris (who's pregnant), in place of the Champagne they gave everyone else, because I assume it's supposed to be "safe" for the baby, but alcohol is alcohol, unless as said, it's something nonalcoholic in the U. S.! 😯😂😀🤘 .
Can anyone tell me is it something different or did the writers make a massive mistake giving a pregnant woman cider?! 😯😂😀🤘 .
Star Trek: Voyager: Equinox, Part II (1999)
Who wrote this nonsense!
I've been watching Voyager through on Netflix for the first time since it was on TV "back in the day" and I was just watching Equinox parts 1 and 2...
And Wow! - Worst episode, ever!
(Said in the Simpsons comic book guy's voice, but I'm serious! 😯)
Part 1 was good, but I was disappointed that NONE of the Equinox crew went against them (unless and probably more unlikely, that story about losing 40 crew in an attack was a lie and the captain killed everyone on board who objected to his actions!)...
It's a pity that the blonde woman's reluctance hadn't been genuine and nor was the crewman's who Voyager's crew rescued from under the bulkhead shown to be a genuinely good person (pity they didn't leave him under the bulkhead!)...
It didn't give us any hope for their crew, but overall, I was enjoying the episode...
Going on to the second episode and wow! - who wrote this junk?! 😯 .
Someone who's never seen an episode of the show or surely any Star Trek for that matter!
So many plot conveniences, but in particular out of character moments, mostly for Janeway!
Firstly, I'm shocked that it only took two button presses to turn The Doctor into Mengilea, that he didn't offer ONE bit of resistance, while Seven made no appeal to his humanity (what little of it is locked away somewhere!)... and he showed no small traces on his own!
How Voyager's crew noticed anything wrong with the evil doctor on their ship (while I guess the writer did care to even focus on him being there, rather than having him send the Equinox one message...)
In the battle with the Equinox, firstly with their level of damage, they should have been defeated in seconds, not to mention when the previous episode had made clear how weak their ship was, it really was no match for voyager!
(it should have never made it that far in the first place!)...
But even with that, beyond Voyager's general superior capabilities in every department, there are many more that they overlooked - where was the Delta flyer?!...
Some episodes play up how powerful it is with its' Borg enhanced weapons in particular, but where was it during the battle and even to go after the Equinox (it should be able to beat the smaller Starship on its' own!)...
In the battle, the Equinox is down to thrusters only, then can suddenly go to warp, when Voyager which is designed to land on planets takes more damage than them and can't?! (And still doesn't send the Flyer after them!)...
B'Elanna's ex always being better than her is annoying and surely if he was that good, his crew wouldn't have become mass murders in the first place!
But the WORST thing about it are Janeway's actions!
She's annoyed, so bingo - she has no "ethical subroutines!"
IF she had "only" lowered the shields in the cargo bay and realised how crazy she was being when Chakotay challenged her, but no - she relieves him of duty and threatened to do the same to Tuvok!
Then threatening the alien vessel and agreeing to give the Equinox crew, bad as they are, to the dimensional aliens...
All in, she'd never act like that, no matter how wounded her pride was!
I still have 16 minutes left in the episode, but WOW, what will they have her do next?! - Nuke a planet because she spilled her coffee?!
This episode feels like a mirror episode and not in a good way (or like when the aliens who thought that Voyager's crew were evil told their story...)
I wish it was an alternate reality, as I don't see how Janeway or the writers can redeem her after this! - terrible 😯😐 .
Star Trek: The Next Generation: The Big Goodbye (1988)
A somewhat entertaining, but ultimately disappointing episode.
I just finished watching this episode for the first time today, as I'm watching TNG through for the first time since I was a child and while it has some interesting moments, it's ultimately a disappointing and very uneven episode...
It feels like the actors shot or rehearsed a lot of scenes that we didn't see and most of the more interesting characters in the holodeck were largely underutilised.
Indeed it's strange that the main characters and overall story didn't establish that the story and World in the holodeck only exists and continues as long as there's a person in there, "playing" though it, giving it a point to exist and continue, like when we play games in real life!
And so pauses when there's no one present to experience it.
But instead, the holodeck's seems to carry on regardless without anyone being present at all!
For example, Picard as Dixon, meets a woman, interacts with her no further, then upon returning, reads in a newspaper that she is dead and he says, "Damn I should have helped her!", when the World didn't give him time to!
The reason for the malfunction then was very silly and arbitrary - instead of a random scan causing the trouble in the holodeck, it would have been better if the "historian" had instead been the engineer who upgraded it and we saw them doing something wrong - then when he got shot, it would have been much better if Doctor Crusher had had to bring him to a 1930's hospital in the holodeck and has to save him with "barbaric and old fashioned " surgery!
Upon which being saved by Doctor Crusher, he should have then had to fix whatever was wrong with the holodeck, rather than it being the crew outside who released them...
While the detective warned Picard not to continue working with the lead mobster, but when they met, much too late in the episode, he acted like they'd never met before!
In particular at the end, when the detective asked "will my wife and kids still exist when you're gone?!" and Captain Picard says, "I really don't know!", it would have been much better if he said "Don't worry, they and you will be fine and you won't even know I was gone!
You'll all be waiting here for when I return for us all to have many more adventures together!"
While the diplomatic mission with the alien species was so brief, it might as well not have been there, to in particular leave more time to flesh out the story happening in the holodeck!
All in, as said, it felt a very incomplete and rushed episode which I wanted much more from and is probably the most disappointing episode I've watched so far 😯😐😀🤘 .
Another rather strange thing was hearing British actor Patrick Stewart, playing a British/French character say Zee instead of Zed, when practicing the alien greeting!
Indeed I know Star Trek is a U. S. based series of films and TV shows, but I'm sure that even in 400 years that Europeans won't be speaking in U. S. English, so European people speaking English within the show should still be using British English!