Re: What Did You Watch? 2025-01-24 (Friday)

On Jan 25, 2025 at 10:59:03 PM PST, "anim8rfsk" <anim8rfsk@cox.net> wrote:

Ian J. Ball <ijball@mac.invalid> wrote:
 

 While there is still some work left to do before classes start next
 week, I basically treated Friday as a "holiday". So I did nothing, and
 didn't even watch much - just one Lifetime flick...:
 
 What did you watch?

 
Hey, thanks for asking!
 
Star Trek: Section 31
 
So this was supposed to be playing three places I should've been able to
access. Paramount+, Paramount+ on prime, and Paramount+ on Roku. However,
they all required me paying extra and I said screw that and went to see if
it had shown up yet on the gray, and much to my surprise there were already
over 500 copies of it.

I've noticed that when I use AppleTV to search for something (because it
searches all the streamers), when it finds what I'm looking for and gives me
the option to start watching, I'm often met with a demand for money, even
though I have a subscription to that streamer. But if I exit Apple and go to
that streamer itself and bring up the show or movie, there's no demand for
money. So basically for me Apple is just the search engine. When I find what
I'm looking for now, I just note where it resides and go directly to that app
and watch it. I don't try watching through Apple.

So how horrible was this? It wasn't as bad as we've been hearing, at least
not until the end when it augured in and augered in hard, but it wasn't
exactly good.
 
I guess these were characters from STD. I would've thought from the
technology that they were post Picard, but apparently they're centuries
earlier and just wildly out of continuity with any real Trek you would ever
have heard of.

All of DISCOVERY is that way. That was the first thing I said while watching
the first episode of that series: the technology is way too advanced for this
to be pre-Kirk STAR TREK.

Some of it I can hand-waive away. Of course the bridge stations are not going
to colored push-buttons the way they back during the original show. We have
better tech than that in our space vehicles *now*. So I can pretend the
upgrades on shows like STRANGE NEW WORLDS were always the way the bridge
looked, they just weren't able to show us that in the 1960s. But stuff like
that spore drive that allows them to travel anywhere in the universe
instantaneously? Nope. No way that existed in Starfleet pre-Kirk.

But then…
 
Epilogue. It turns out this (literal) pile of garbage is an overlong pilot
episode.

Well, that makes sense since I could've sworn that the first time I heard
about SECTION 31 it was in the context of it being a new STAR TREK series.
They must have shot most of the pilot, realized it was a shit idea that was
gonna cost them lots of money and abandoned the plan for the series. Then just
turned the pilot into a standalone movie.

And then a hideous giant head appears to give them their next mission. And
just when you think it couldn't get any worse it's Jamie Lee Curtis, who is
now every bit is ugly outside as she always has been inside.

LOL! If only Jimmy Carter had survived long enough, they could have given him
and Alec Baldwin a cameo and made your viewing experience complete.