thekryz Reviews

Star Trek: Voyager: Distant Origin (1997) Season 3, Episode 23

Did Voyager forget its goals?

[5/10 · 20 August 2020]

So here we have an interesting episode, since it's told from an unusual standpoint of a different species. They track down Voyager (however impossible that is, continuity-wise) and then catch up with them via transwarp-technology. Wait ... transwarp-technology? Wouldn't that be THE tool Voyager is looking for, since it would basically help them get home really quickly? So they try to get their hands on it, right? Wrong. Of course, there can be an argument about how they need to leave as quickly as possible, once there has been a verdict. But then again, Chakotay spent what, three days on the alien's ship? During the hearing, he says he had time to catch up with their history - but he didn't try to learn about transwarp-technology to get home? How in the WORLD could that have been more important to him? He should have at least been able to kindly ask the alien researcher for the equivalent of a thumb drive with the basic idea of transwarp. But no. I guess, they all got so used to being adrift that they stop caring somehow. Or did they? It seems like a really big flaw to me.

Star Trek: Voyager: Macrocosm (1996) Season 3, Episode 12

Well, this was silly.

[2/10 · 29 July 2020]

It's your straightforward horror setting: A virus has infected almost everyone to the point that they are lying around, immobilized, looking pretty dead and serving as hosts for the virus. Most major systems have lost power, the gel packs have been infected, parts of the ship have blown up. The few survivors need to .. well, fix everything. Of course at the end they do and aside from some "post-viral queasiness", everything is fine in a matter of hours. What a perfectly trashy episode. The only semi-interesting thing were the "Tak Tak" and Neelix dealing with them at the very beginning.

Assassination Classroom (2013– )

Great premise, interesting characters - that lead nowhere.

[4/10 · 25 March 2019]

I'm really annoyed with this show. I like myself some good anime and with the premise, this could have gone deep and far, but it stopped right at the premise and played it out in the most cliché ways over 47 episodes. Which I all watched in hope of change. This is an anime about killing and death. And yet it is treated like dance lessons. It's fun, light and not troublesome at all. Yay, we kill for fun! So it's in its core a dark premise. But this premise is then superficially played out as if it was a standard slice-of-life school anime. The real core of the story, the background of kurosensei, becomes part of the story way to late and hardly adds anything. The resolutions to the problems are all too convenient and lots of big questions remain (if you can cut up the bullets and knives, why not create an airtight trap out of it to kill him? Why is kurosensei dishonest about the way the moon was destroyed?)

I cannot recommend this anime for anyone who is looking for something deep. If you're into fluffy killing attempts, go for it.