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| Date | Episode | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 08-21 | SNW 3x07 | "What Is Starfleet?" |
| 08-28 | SNW 3x08 | "Four-and-a-Half Vulcans" |
| 09-04 | SNW 3x09 | "Terrarium" |
| 09-11 | SNW 3x10 | "New Life and New Civilizations" |
| TBA | SFA 1x01 | TBA |
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Yeah. Honestly, it’s kinda funny—their sci-fi has a shaky grasp of science, their drama is tedious and annoying, the basic storytelling fundamentals are purely vibes-based and miss actually connecting setups to payoffs half the time… but every romantic episode has been at least okay, imo.
Unfortunately, that’s turned every character into this. Sigh…
Maybe this creative team would be better for The Rise and Fall of Sanctuary Moon.
I've just started season two and this is kind of how I feel too. It's not a bad show, but a lot of it is just mediocre. The characters are especially bad since they all feel like bizarre caricatures of Star Trek memes and the attempt at comedy often feels out of place.
The Orville, for all it's silliness, had much better writing and characters that actually felt genuine.
The show is entertaining enough for me to keep watching though.
Yeahhh… Every once in a while, there’s a solid episode! But pretty often, it feels to me like their big dramatic moment doesn’t actually follow from the rest of the events.
I still enjoy SNW, but I can’t see myself going back to rewatch it, like I’m rewatching DS9 right now.
I’ve never seen The Orville, but I hear a lot of good things about it around here! I just finished Babylon 5 for the first time, and after that, SNW really does feel all the more poorly written.
And that's with some, frankly, terrible acting in the first season of B5!
Definitely check out The Orville. It took me a few episodes to realize that it is a comedy first, but after that the serious episodes felt strange to me 😅
That last episode of season 3 with "ley line bus routes" was.. 🤦 .. something.
Yeah, that was… a hell of a choice. I was specifically thinking about the “epigenetics of elemental good and evil” plot point from that very episode as I wrote it.
To me that was somehow more believable than "lines existing between pyramids" which is what ley lines are based on earth. The line between the most stable structures over time lol.
A good show to have on in the background while waiting for the stupid humans.