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Zack Snyder's Justice League (2021)
Mastapiece
I love how flash did nothing for three hours then broke the speed of light. The new aspect ratio and gray colors really made this worth the extra two hours, thank you Zack Snyder for saving DC and showing joss whedon he's an idiot. Jared Leto was breathtaking made the whole movie worth it
South Park: Mexican Joker (2019)
Mixed bag
More overtly political then some of their past satires maybe but still typical Matt and Trey and I found the commentary to be funny and surprisingly fresh with it being done with the whole supervillain origin story critique on ICE.
The randy plot with tegridy farms is getting a bit stale for me already and it seemed quite out of character for randy to actually blow up houses and murder people, he's an incompetent idiot sure but he's not a sociopath like cartman, I hope they end the tegridy farms arc very quickly because I am not a fan, but I don't think they will.
The other plot with Kyle I found to be quite entertaining. A maybe obvious critique of ICE on most aspects but done very well with the final Jewish conversion underlying some funny themes and showing how if they are Jewish the immigrants would have to be let go due to past connections with the holocaust.
All in all a rather mediocre episode, this season all seems to be heading towards a long arc with randy and his tegridy farms thing, hopefully this will conclude next week in a two parter and won't bring South Park back to fully serialized format where they just don't do to well.
Star Trek: For the World Is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky (1968)
McCoy meets girl
A McCoy episode, and good riddance to that. I've always loved McCoy, in fact he's probably my second favorite character in TOS behind Scotty, with that said you can probably guess that I might have liked this episode a little more than I should. After all it was a pretty bland episode tackling the classic what if the world was a ship sci fi concept. Though one disappointing aspect for me was that the episode seemed pretty much looked into two sets the enterprise bridge and the oracle room.
The episode goes as follows..
The enterprise finds an asteroid that seems to be on course for a federation colony, on closer look they determine the asteroid is in fact a large ship, meanwhile dr McCoy informs the captain that a member of the crew is suffering of a terminal illness with no cure, as Kirk dramatically asks McCoy who it is McCoy responds that he himself is the one suffering of the disease and that he has a year or so left to live. Kirk takes Spock and McCoy with him and beams down to the asteroid/ship, there they find a group of people that stuns him and takes them into their city I think? There they learn of the oracle a talking altar that basically rules the planet, the oracle talks with the high priestess as it Is revealed these aliens have lived on this ship for 10,000 years the crew surmises that the aliens no longer realize they are on a ship and believe this to be a planet, Kirk and the landing party are then punished by getting quickly zapped by the oracle (jeez tough crowd). Kirk and Spock awake while McCoy remains unconscious, Kirk reveals to Spock that McCoy is terminally ill and that's why he's knocked out, an old guy walks in after McCoy wakes up and gives a brief speech on the world being a lie while directly quoting the episode title in there (blah cliches am i right) then immediately collapses and dies. The high priestess Natira comes in and has the dead man taken away while mumbling some stuff about punishment and blasphemy blah blah blah. She gives the landing party a little history lesson and seems to take a liking to McCoy. Spock and like make their way into the oracle room to investigate the oracle but hey detected and zapped. The oracle declares they are to die but McCoy puts on his charm on Natira and gets her to let them beam up while McCoy while stay there and live out the remainder of his life with her (talk about love at first sight). McCoy is made an official resident of the asteroid/ship/planet through his initiation which includes implanting a punishment device in his skull (kinky!) and gives him a look at the secret book of their people (also why is it secret if they didn't know there were alien species out there, why did they plan ahead and build a whole secret compartment for it?). After taking an oath of secrecy on the topics of the book McCoy immediately contacts the ship and gets to gossiping all he can (seriously in the very next scene!), McCoy explains that the book can be used to alter the asteroid/ship/planets's course and save the colony and the people of yanada (the name of th asteroid/ship/planet), the oracle detects McCoy's treachery and uses the punishment device previously implemented to zap him till he's knocked unconscious. Despite being cleared of responsibility by Starfleet Kirk beams right down to the planet and finds an unconscious McCoy, Kirk and Spock remove McCoy's punishment device, but before they can change the course of the asteroid/ship/planet nature walks in and orders them arrested, that is until Kirk talks her into believing that yanada is a ship and that they aim to save it, so after all that they go to the oracle room. The oracle yells at them but they open the secret compartment and use the book to alter the course, and in it Spock finds out that the book contains far more advanced medical knowledge than that of the federation and then they cure McCoy just like that, and so everything is right again.
Now there was nothin really special about this episode. Some real big questions s for me such as the aforementioned secret compartment and why it was built, or a bigger question why did Natira instantly believe that yanada was a ship, I mean she's introduced to us as this fully devoted individual that believes everything of the oracle and then she just happens to buy the word of three aliens who have literally broken her planets laws at every chance and been convicted to death before, nah uh I don't buy it, I mean if someone told you earth was a spaceship you would just say they're crazy but she instantly believes it. Anyways I'm going off topic, the acting was ok but not great, and there was never really a sense of urgency or danger in the episode I mean the whole a ship will crash into a colony in like 2 weeks thing doesn't strike immediate danger does it. Still it's always fun when Star Trek tackles common sci-fi topics like this so extra points on that,. All in all it ends up as a vey meh episode, not one you will hate but not exactly memorable (seriously I watched this yesterday and had to google the episodes plot because it's so forgettable, not a good sign).
Star Trek: Spectre of the Gun (1968)
Kirk vs the nasty ole Earps
Well this one was a doozie, not necessarily bad but definitely needs more than one view. Why? Cause it's fun! There's no philosophical quandary that's being disputed here it's just a bunch of technobabble being used to justify watching Kirk and co. as Cowboys, and I might have a weak spot for westerns but I happened to enjoy this one.
The episode goes as follows..
Kirk and his ole starship posse are on their way to initiate diplomatic talks with the Melkot a species that has thus far isolated itself from the federation. On the way however Kirk runs into a melkotian warning buoy threatening any ships that cross into melkotian space, Kirk having learned nothing from the corbomite maneuver destroys the buoy and approaches the melkotian planet. Kirk, Spock, McCoy, Scotty and Chekov beam down to the planet only to find it eerily similar to 19th century Earth, particularly the O.K. Corral. The melkotians inform the landing party that as they have crossed into their space they will now be killed by being forced to take the place of the Clanton gang in the shootout at the O.K. Corral (don't know why they didn't just blow them up but hey, you be you). Kirk explains to them that the clantons lot the shootout and most of them died, and as they all believe the event is about to be re-enacted the gang realizes they have to avoid the shootout. So basically Kirk and the posse get acclimated to the situation and meet the nasty ole Earps, the Earps don't like Kirk and the posse as they believe them to be the Clantons. Meanwhile Chekov meets billy Claiborne's girlfriend and becomes quickly enamored with her, and as Kirk goes to all lengths to convince other people that the landing party aren't the clantons, Chekov gets into a confrontation with one of the Earps and gets shot and pronounced dead by McCoy. So the crew is sad about Chekov for like five minutes until they realize that Chekov was Billy Claiborne and Billy Claiborne didn't die in the actual gunfight, this means that they are not destined to repeat the gunfight at the O.K. Corral. Knowing that they can't outgun the Earps, Kirk and the posse come up with the idea of knockout gas and so they spend a good amount of time preparing the gas. Once it's ready they realize the gas doesn't work, so the posse decides on just not going to the gunfight and are immediately teleported there (insert rimshot here, great comedic timing amiright). Right before the gunfight Spock deduces that Chekov only died because he believed the bullets would kill him, if they believe with all certainty that the bullets can't harm them they will not be harmed. McCoy says there will always be a shred of doubt and so Spock does a mind meld with all of them (I mean I like the mind meld as much as the next guy but it's becoming a Deus ex machine kinda thing, know when to stop a good thing guys). The gunfight starts and no one gets killed no matter how many times they get shot and so they knock out the Earps and right before killing them decide not to. Kirk and co. are then seen back on the ship with Chekov alive and well, Spock tells them that Chekov only thought the girl was real not the bullets so he didn't die (some bottom of the barrel cheesy writing here but hey whatever), the melkotian contact Kirk and say how they're surprised Kirk didn't kill the Earps, and because of this agree to open relations with the federation, so Kirk being a reckless rebel succeeds at defying the buoy yet again.
The episode was entertaining to me, but hey I have a soft spot for westerns so judge for yourself. I enjoyed the whole question of whether things only affect because you believe in their effect, it was very matrixey and I love the matrix. Acting was all pretty good I enjoyed the menacing stares of the Earps and the latex back western folk, nothing particularly meaningful philosophically in this one but it was a fun episode of Star Trek and I'm all for fun Star Trek when done properly, unlike other previous poor iterations (cough Spock's Brain cough).Cowboy Kirk and the nasty ole Earps
Star Trek: Day of the Dove (1968)
War, what is it good for, according to Kirk says nothing
A fine episode of Star Trek, and in my opinion the best that season 3 has to offer. It's classic 60s Star Trek in almost every way, a fearsome foe, terribly obvious props, flashing light based aliens and a cliche on the nose social message that everyone can relate to, all it's missing is Kirk hooking up with some alien girl and a little more overacting from kirk (I know, I dream too big). It's classic trek and you have to love it, a strong plot and a meaningful message on how mindless soldiers can be and how they fight the battles of others, people in the shadows who get stronger and more powerful through war, a great commentary all together on the uselessness of war and how military leaders strive and grow through it a message Roddenberry clearly believed in.
The episode goes as follows..
Kirk and the enterprise respond to a distress call on a planet claiming to be attacked by an unidentified ship, there they find the klingons apparently responding to the same, but before space battle can ensue the Klingon ship is disabled without the enterprise even firing (disabled them without firing a single shot, Kirk you've outdone yourself). A party of Klingons beams down claiming the enterprise attached them and they knock down Kirk and the landing party and claim command of the enterprise. The Klingon commander, Kang, is a fierce and honorable leader like worf but before that. Kang argues with Kirk about who attacked who and then holds Kirk and his party hostage demanding he beam them up. Kirk sends Spock a signal before they're beamed up and so Spock beams the landing party up and keeps the Klingons de materialized until a security team gets there ready to subdue them. Kirk imprisons the kilngon party and the remaining crew on the ship which is around 100 men. Spock informs Kirk that the Klingons were too far to attack the colony but Kirk dismissed this, after a while of Klingon plotting and waiting to take the ship, the enterprise crew loses control of the ship which starts warping in its own random course, and at the same time a large portion of the crew becomes trapped on an isolated area of the ship leaving the enterprise with around 100 men as well.. Kirk assumes the Klingons did this and as he confronts them swords start appearing and all the phasers turn to swords as well and a massive fight begins. Kirk and his men escape but the Klingons now have weapons and can take over the ship. So while Scotty tries to free the trapped crew Kirk tries to figure out what happened, he decides they need to take engineering, while Kirk is giving orders Chekov gets up and demands he go along because Klingons killed his brother piotr. Kirk says no but Chekov goes anyways (always the rebel that poorly history educated Russian), sulu confused explains Chekov doesn't have a brother leaving Kirk to wonder what's happening. Meanwhile Kang and the Klingons launch an attacking and take over engineering, Kirks crew seems agitated and aggressive towards the Klingons more so than they should including McCoy calling them butchers and demanding revenge and Scotty defying orders. Spock detects an alien presence on board and surmises it alone is responsible for the strange happenings, however before they can do something about it Kang tells Kirk he's taken control of engineering and will disconnect the life support of all areas Klingons don't control. So while the gang slowly dies sulu goes off to try and repair life support while Scotty and Spock fight (my money's on Spock in that one, I hear he packs a mean pinch). Suddenly life support is restored and sulu has nothing to do with it, Lang's wife Mars informs Kang and he sends her to go try to fix their course or something and on her way she gets captured and nearly raped by Chekov before Kirk knocks some sense into him (quite literally). Kirk realizes that the alien is keeping them alive because it thrives on violence, and that the war will literally never stop as the alien will keep them alive to fight an endless war only for it to grow stronger. Kirk tries to convince Mara of this but she doesn't buy it so Kirk calls Kang and tries to convince him, and when that doesn't work he threatens to kill Mara which Kang dismisses and Kirk obviously backs down (not so good at poker now is he). However once Kirk doesn't kill Mara she suddenly realizes that the federation isn't evil and decides to believe in the alien and agrees to go with Kirk to convince Kang. Kirk decides to dangerously transport himself in his own ship to where Kang is and once successful he confronts Kang. Kang still in the aliens influence attacks Kirk and they begin an awesome sword fight, meanwhile Spock arrives with more men and begins battling Klingons. Suddenly Kirk surrenders saying it would be pointless as the alien would only revive him and keep the war going. Kirk shows Kang the alien feeding on their hate and kang decides to see reason because Klingons fight their own battles and honor and qapla and só on. Kirk and kang call a ceasefire to the troops which weakens the alien and then start laughing at the alien which defeats it once and for all, and all is right in the world again.
All in all it was an extremely strong episode. As mentioned before it had a good message that was transmitted well, all the key points of a trek classic, and some pretty good acting with special mention to the actor who played he was fantastic. It was an honestly suspenseful episode with two strong villains and a strong plot that strung together made a trek classic that could be rewatched all day long. In fact the message is still relevant today and that makes it even stronger an episode than before, this episode was music to my ears and if you'll excuse me, I have some Bruce Springsteen I have to go listen to.
Star Trek: Is There in Truth No Beauty? (1968)
What is beauty? Well it isn't kolos
This to me was an all together good episode, the enterprise wasn't fighting a galactic race of evil baddies, but rather the problems stemmed from the governor coming aboard, kolos. Governor kolos was a member of a species so physically ugly that it would literally drive you insane, but on the inside the governor was a kind genius. This was a simple metaphor for the classic what's on the inside is what counts, while also looking into blind people and their limitations in the real world (when given telepathy). The episode wasn't to me particularly analytical but it did question what is beauty, who judges what beauty is and why, which I found relatively interesting, albeit not original.
The episode goes as follows..
The ambassador of an alien species is beaming aboard (kolos), as mentioned before he is so ugly it drives any human insane by looking at him, Vulcans however have an immunity when wearing x ray goggles (and I thought those things didn't work). So Spock operates the transporter and beams up kolos and his assistant, dr Miranda jones (dr Pulaski), Spock's never before mentioned rival. She is human but supposedly was taught in Vulcan and so has little to no emotion. Now Miranda spends the first ten minutes being constantly told how beautiful she is and then turning down Larry something, the guy who also came to help kolos, so naturally Larry something attempts to murder kolos, but there's one flaw in this brilliant scientists plan, he looks at kolos (seriously he looks at the thing he knows will turn him insane, what people do for love). So Larry something goes insane and takes over engineering, where after a good minute off button mashing he gets them well out of their known universe. Larry then dies when he sees Miranda, due to (as McCoy describes) nothing at all. Now incredibly kolos species are expert navigators and so they need him to take them back, so Spock decides on doing a mind meld with him so as to be able to bring them back, but Miranda won't have it, she and Spock are bitter rivals remember. So Kirk distracts Miranda by trying to tune into her emotions while Spock goes to do the meld, Kirk is immediately unsuccessful and Miranda has a tantrum, she wants to meld with kolos but as we learn, she can't as she wouldn't be able to navigate the ship properly, as she's blind. So kolos tells Miranda that he'll meld with Spock, and he does, Spock then instantly gets them back on path, however when he melds kolos consciousness back to his body he forgets his x Ray goggles and goes insane. Spock's tranquilizes and it seems Miranda is the only one who can rescue him. She is reluctant but Kirk gives her one of his famous species on emotion and accountability and ..., so Miranda saves Spock and all is right in the world.
All in all a calm episode, nothing really felt as though the enterprise was going to be in extreme danger, it was cool however to see that a starship can jump halfway across a galaxy through button mashing (maybe janeway should have tried that).
Star Trek: The Paradise Syndrome (1968)
TOS's the Inner Light
I found this episode to be an entertaining and pleasant chance to really test shatner's acting abilities without having to overact(though he still does). This episode reminded me of TNG's famous episode the Inner Light where Picard experiences a lifetime in the space of 20 minutes as a different person. This was similarly done here to a lesser extent, with an amnesia filled Kirk experiencing around two months of a new life as kurok.
The episode goes as follows.
The enterprise detects an asteroid that is on path towards destroying a planet whose inhabitants resemble native Americans. Kirk and the gang beam down to investigate this primitive civilization and encounter a strange obelisk that Kirk enters and gets quickly zapped in getting amnesia. Spock leads the landing party back(much to the chagrin of Doctor McCoy) in order to destroy the asteroid and prevent the destruction of the planet. While Spock goes on his solo mission Kirk is mistaken for a god by the inhabitants of planet Navajo. He goes on to live his life and get married to a local girl, Miramaly?Mirlany?Milwauke? who knows. Anyways Kirk enjoys his vacation with an idyllic godly lifestyle until his wife's old suitor comes along and basically attacks him, so biff cuts Kirk and discovers he's not a god creating some doubt in the mind of kurok(what amnesia Kirk thinks his name is). Spock meanwhile fails at destroying the asteroid and manages to damage the system in the process, to the point that warp drive is disabled, basically they'll have four hours when they get back to the planet to get out f there before the asteroid destroys the planet. Spock seems mesmerized by the obelisk and keeps his research going discovering the markings on it are actually musical symbols. Meanwhile in planet Cherokee, a dangerous storm hits and the natives ask the supposed god Kurok to save them. Kirk ends up not being able to stop the weather(not very godly Kirk) and naturally the inhabitants pelt him with rocks. Kirks wife chooses to go to her husband despite not being a god and they both get stoned together, get a room you two. Spock and McCoy arrive in time to see Kirk near death and restore his memory, they decipher that Kirk somehow said the necessary vocal notes when speaking to the ship and opened the obelisk. They reenact kirks communication and go in to the obelisk where they activate the asteroid destruction laser (duh). Kirks wife dies and everything's back to normal.
Now while my summary of the episode seems unflattering. I really could get behind Kirks love for his native wife, but more importantly for his happiness albeit temporary, at a normal life. This happiness came with struggles though, the normal menial farmers life isn't for Kirk, and no matter how good it felt to be afflicted with Tahiti syndrome our good old captain discovered what we knew all along, he belongs on the enterprise. The death of his wife was believably frantic and I think well done, she didn't seem like Kirks conquest of the week but rather, like she really mattered. Spock in charge and the insubordination that occurs is always fun, and it was a nice change of pace with no baddie of the week. All in all a fine episode of TOS, and one of the better ones of a lackluster third season.
Star Trek: And the Children Shall Lead (1968)
The only Star Trek episode to give me actual physical pain to watch!!
Wow was this a trainwreck.
While some other episodes of TOS pushed the boundaries of goofy to fun(trouble with tribbles) others were absolute disasters such as this one or Spock's brain for comparison. Now I would like to state that this is in my opinion the worst episode of TOS and possibly even the entire franchise.
The basic plot is, Kirk and the gang are sent to a planet to retrieve a group of children whose parents committed mass suicide, the kids however seem entirely unfazed by the recent death of their parents and are almost glad they're dead(or if you want to be more analytical are in denial). We soon learn that the kids are in contact/under control of a mysterious alien spirit angel??I honestly don't know, what I do know is that this mysterious alien is played by a real life famous attorney in his acting debut, which apparently from what I know of the story was a publicity stunt by the producers to increase the amount of viewers. Anyway the evil angel lawyer convinced the kids that they need to go to a federation colony so that he can spread his influence and take over the galaxy(Yes he tells the kids he wants to take over the galaxy, but hey kudos to the evil angel lawyer, real ambitious), he in turn promises to the kids that basically he will tear down the fabric of society and plunge the galaxy into anarchy, so yay no bedtime. Now(and this is when it starts to get really ridiculous) the kids manage to fool the crew into heading to the federation colony by pumping their fists at them which makes them see silly illusions and apparently lowers the crews iq. So it's up to Kirk to stop these damn kids and yet while seeing them nearly kill him several times, Kirk refuses to do any thing to the kids! I mean you don't have to lock them up in the brig or anything but at least confine these demon brats to quarters! So while a bunch of illusion nonsense goes on Kirk eventually shows the kids that they were happy with their parents and gets them to accept their parents death. This in turn destroys the evil angel lawyer.
Now while a lot of reviewers connected to this by watching as kids, and I get that, and while they did attempt to pass the message that evil cannot spread without followers, and that children are more susceptible to become said followers. They did so in such a horrendous and laughable way that I swear to god I thought I was having a stroke halfway through. The acting was all acceptable with the exception of the actual lawyer which is to be expected, but the plot and ridiculously annoying kids and fist pumping had me in pain all the way throughout, I do not recommend it.