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Andor: Daughter of Ferrix (2022)
This Star Wars at the best
I never expected to this turn of events after the last episode, but this is a good one and i might say one of the few with a Star Wars vibe until now, it's like a sad version of one of the best episodes from the Mandalorian, Boba Fett and Kenobi, mixed with some good influences from Babylon 5 and Battlestar Gallactica and made it with a very original vision. I bet the most softies fans, including the girls, will cry at the end of the episode and at the finale of the end credits music score. I will not spoil anything, but i will say with this episode,this series exceeds the quality of Star Trek Strange New Worlds. I Iike the mature and yet sometimes a little funny tone of this series and when you think everything from what is happening in this series it is the result of Darth Sidious and Darth Vader's actions, you will realise how much this series expands the entire Star Wars universe. I do hope they will mantain the quality of the show in the next season and they will not follow the path of Altered Carbon's tv series which it turned in to a mess in the second season and i do hope they will change their minds and they will give us more seasons.
Andor: One Way Out (2022)
This is the best SW ever, period.
Not even in my wildest dreams i never thought somebody could write and produce one of the deepest sci fi stories i ever saw in my life and that is done in a Star Wars tv series, not in an pretentious movie or in a Star Trek series or Black Mirror or something like that this episode is pure and simple mindblowing, everything is so epic and spectacular to the limit of the impossible, everything, every mimic of the actors, every move of the characters, every visual landscape scene, every sound and every drop of light is so carefully chosen, it is like somebody or some people wanted an Oscar but instead of a movie, this person , or these persons, landed on a tv series. This is ABSOLUTELY MINDBLOWING !!!
Andor: Narkina 5 (2022)
The series is so good
I like this show so much although i not quite get the gay romance, because, let's face it, the Star Wars shows don't have not even single one love story for us, the normal people and yet, they jumped the horse with a gay one, even if they know the fans barely can stand even the romance between Anakin and princess Amidala because it's a tragic one and thecsame goes to the one between Han Solo and Leia and in general the Star Wars fans like only the straight things because the social wars stuff goes to Star Trek and many fans are rejecting this series only for this and at an international level the show will not be very pleasant for many countries because of this kind of stuff and anyway, what kind of normal guy or woman will spend the free after work time to see something like this..?!? Another problem remains the lack of action(not for me) but the main fanbase are die hard fans of light sabers duels and straight action movies in contrast with Star Trek fans and the lack of more well known alien races and type of robots is a huge problem also. This series would have been more suitable as a Star Trek show,because even if a part of the fans like the show, the majority doesn't seem to love this one it very much. I am writing this in the most objective way possible i have nothing agains anybody, but the fans are spilt in two parts because of this series and this is not a good thing.
Andor: Announcement (2022)
This episode is so good
This series becomes more and more interesting to watch and even if the action is a little slow, everything else is spectacular and this episode briliantly succeeds to bring even more new landscapes and visual treats and combine them with something more genuine for a Star Wars production. This episode has even some funny scenes just like Madalorian or any other Star Wars show or movie, but the deep parts of the story are somehow becoming even deeper in this one and the stakes and threats are becoming even bigger. I do hope to see K2SO in the next season although and to see more missions with the two heroes, because i think a gradually transition to something like this with a little more action will please even a more part of the fans. This is without no doubt one of the gratest (if not the best one) sci-fi series in the last years and it could become a classic like Star Trek, Babylon 5, Stargate or Battlestar Galactica or a gem like Almost Human.
Andor: The Eye (2022)
SW : A Police Story
-Hands down: this episode of Andor has, without no doubt, the best visuals,the best musical tune and the most original and one of the deepest points of view from Star Wars universe. Strangely enough the Cassian Andor's fate and his facial expressions reminds me about the one of the Jackie Chan's first dramatic roles from Police Story when the main character sees the inutility of his victory at the end, when he realises the war is neverending and there is no fairytale happy ending. It is so strange to see a Star Wars production where the bad guys are not just some numbers of victims count or just some pure evil villains and the good side is not being made just from pure good and kind people because this sounds like something from the heavy part of the sci-fi universe, something worthy for a cinematic blockbuster movie and the visual background is better than the one from the Orville season 3 episodes or like the ones from Star Trek Voyager and Star Trek Strange New Worlds intros.
Andor: The Axe Forgets (2022)
Good
This episode is still a little too slow paced (for the fans who are more into action driven episodes), but the quality of this series and the one of this episode remains the best i ever saw, i like the way they are shaping the characters, i like the directing, acting, i like the music and you don't have to be a genious to realise the next episode will have plenty of action. For the fans (just like me) who want some heavy sci-fi, this series is absolutely a great one, but for the sake of the other fans, i hope the next season will have more action, but only as long as this series will have the same quality,because it will be a shame to ruin one of the greatest sci-fi series i ever saw in my life.
Andor: Aldhani (2022)
A good episode with Stargate SG-1 vibe
This episode remembers me about Stargate SG-1 very much, in a very good way , with gorgeous landscapes, over the top visual effects , even the way the ship flies in hyperspace looks similar , because the SG-1 producers were themselves Star Wars fans for sure and even the way the action flows is the same. I like very much the way they combined the old looking technology from the original trilogy with something modern, nothing looks weird and i don't know how they managed this, but with each new tv series they come up, the sets,costumes, the ship and everything else looks better and better and i like the different tone of this show, this series is even better than other more pretentious tv shows like Foundation. In a way, this is a return to the origins, because Star Wars had originally heavy stuff in the story, for example the bad guy was the father of the good guy and other things like that, which were pretty rare in those times and i love things that makes me to think deep, and the ending theme is so cool and dark it makes you to realise this is something for a more mature audience.
Andor: Reckoning (2022)
This is a very good episode.
While i do consider this episode and this tv series as being very good, i do have some observations to write, with the hope, someday one of the producers, more interesed by the fans' comments, will read this, or even just for the fanbase, i will make a short list of what the fans want from a Star Wars tv series, after many years of reading their comments from the social media, they want :
-A tv series with the look of the original trilogy, because they don't like the look, the sets, ships or the costumes from The phantom menace.
- They want a strong, but believable character, maybe an athletic or even sexy,male, or even a female, but not something overpowered like Rey was in the sequels.
-They want a mature story, just like the one from The empire strikes back or even from Andor, but not something very boring or something very rushed.
-They don't like to see very loud antagonists with weird haircuts.
-They want NEW Jedi and even NEW Sith lords, even in stories made after the sequels era and they love good lightswords fights, just like the ones from the prequels or even better.
-They love to see new cool planets and futuristic places.
-They love the diversity of the cast, but let's not forget we still don't have not even one blonde female character or not even one sexy chinese character in a live tv Star Wars and the characters and the cast of the new live tv shows are often too old and too much out of shape, even Mando looks very often like a slow man and he is moving like he way out of shape.
Now, is this series good enough to resolve some of this issues or not...?!?... if not ,then.. Houston, we have a problem, with the main fanbase, offcourse.
It is hard to please everybody, especially the SW fanbase, because half of them are more like the Marvel fans, they want action , but the rest of them want something heavy, like Dune of even the older Star Trek shows and it is not hard to see these things, the reviews are enough to see that. This show is just so perfect for the geeky part of the fans.
Star Trek: Discovery: There Is a Tide... (2020)
You committed again
I know the producers of this series can be great,the first part of Transformers without Shia Laboeuf is a great movie ,cemented in the robot cartoon series of 80-90's ;) and I know the new writers have potential,but as a wannabe writer (only my fate kept me away from becoming a writer) I will tell them a rule only a profane writer will dear to break it : don't you ever rewrite a good character or a good alien species with an exceptional background developed by an already great writer.I saw you doing that with the Klingons in the first season and you did it again ,with your new Andorians,because the true fans will never forgive you.The beauty of Star Trek is the fact you always can create a new character or a new species a do whatever you want to do with them.I'm telling you this as a friend.There is not even one good writer on this world capable of a such profanity.
P.S. I'm sorry if you ever see some mistakes in my comments but I is very hard to me to write a comment from my mobile phone ,because I used to write communts from something much bigger like a laptop or a P.C.
Star Trek: Discovery: Point of Light (2019)
- What are you thinking ?
-I'm a die-hard trekker since i was a teenager,but i must say ,this series has some major issues,for example they changed the look of the aliens,but they should know you can't compete with somthing which survived to so many generations of fans,this is something very arrogant in a certain way,because their changes are not making things better than the ones from Enterprise,for example,Star Trek is like a old castle you try to preserve it,and keep the new things in the same tone with the old ones, if you want to be something with a certain value,you don't try to transform it in a ..discoteque.I hope they would show the older versions of the aliens too,in season 3,because this is the right things to do.The Aliens from the show ,and the multiple spore jumps are inspirated without no doubt by GOTG movies indeed,because M.Yeoh was a part of that series too,but this is a mistake,nobody wants to see Star Trek being transformed in a Marvel efemere series,exceptiny the (young non fans) members of the production staff.The fans can understand a visual remake,like the ones from Enterprise ,but what they did with DSC is a profanity,so please make the things right again,because is not too late,and the fans will repay you for that,i assure you.I hope somebody from the production has some time to spear to read this reviews,for the sake of this series.
Star Trek: Short Treks: Escape Artist (2019)
This is pretty good but..
-I have only one thing to say :-Do you think the new BSG earned its title as the best sci-fi series with goofy characters like Tilly and Mudd ,with main characters like Burnham ,or with uniforms suitable for PC games ?
Star Trek: Short Treks: Calypso (2018)
It's getting better,but...
Well, Michael Chabon makes his debut in the Star Trek franchise with this episode (he is one of the people behind the new Picard show,in case if you don't know).The episode is better than the first one,but,i expected to see something more different ,with more mystery ,in the X-files style,i wanted to see a ship or a city,or even more information about the Federation,because this is the first trek (semi) episode which is taking place in the future ,beside the ones from Star Trek Enterprise ,about Enterprise J and Temporal Wars.Offcourse, there is the story of the old Spock from Star Trek 2009 , but everything takes place in the past.I think the love story is a little too forced,the ship's A.I. evolving to think like a girl,even if she is alone in space for about 1000 years is ridiculous.I espected something more darker,but once again,everything is for girls and ..delicate guys only.Another thing very wrong in this episode are the DSC circus costumes,for god's sake dear producers,before making a space or a military uniform please ask an old B5\DS-9 fan or a guy from their creative team how they should look like,because they are EXPERTS.Just like the team behind Star Trek Enterprise ,those guys don't know how to create things which are looking similar with the ones from the other Trek series.Discovery is the worst incarnation of a Star Trek series even if the series is getting better.By the way,i like they know what was wrong with the previous music scenes,because i don't think RnB music will resist in time as a classic style,actually i think it is the only music genre which will be completely forgotten so stop whining about why the Klingons are looking like a bunch of heavy-metal rockers or like some classic D.J.s,because i assure you , Sinatra,Michael Jackson,The Beatles ,Nirvana or Jean Michel Jarre will be remembered .
Star Trek: Short Treks (2018)
A little advice : -Please,change the uniforms !
A sober dark and more realistic uniform,purple with black maybe,will bring an improvment to the overall look of the new shows,because the oversized characters,like Tilly, are looking almost disgusting in those thight uniforms,and the lack of the pockets is becoming ridiculous,don't forget ,the trekkies are geeks and they like the scientific approach .
Super 8 (2011)
Predator 2 remastered .
This movie is absolutely FLAWLESS.This is one of the best movies with aliens i ever saw.It is not a blockbuster ,but it has a absolutely amazing quality.I recommend this movie to anybody,kid,mature or even to the old people.
Star Trek: Discovery: Battle at the Binary Stars (2017)
Change back the look of the aliens ,please !
If somebody ask you to choose between the most expensive kind of food and your favorite food,what you would choose ?!?..the answer is your favorite food ,of course.The same thing is happening with Discovery,the producers are forcing us to renounce to the look of the our favorite aliens for an expensive version of them,which should be better ,but is not ,but the fans don't care if their aliens are the best or not,all they want is what they really love ,this cyber punk version of a series were the real culture was verry apreciated looks soo lame,and this is the only series where IDIC is seen as something strictly related to sexual preferences and not about science or culture.This is just the newest form of superficiality and it makes me just to leave technology and go for a walk in nature or to go in a gym,and probably is better this way,because almost all trekkies are sedentary persons.
Star Trek: Discovery: Will You Take My Hand? (2018)
Captain Tardigrade vs Galaxy Quest Klingons
I think this is a good standalone series,but i hope the next Picard series will be just a simple sequel to Voyager,because those new Klingons ,main characters and the uniforms from Discovery ore not very good,and the more experienced sci-fi fans know that thing.Discovery remains a fascinating and a revolting series in the same time.
Star Trek: Discovery: The Vulcan Hello (2017)
The list of stolen ideas
1. The Klingons were stolen from Galaxy Quest,from a scene with character doing cosplay.
2. The uniform was stolen from Killjoys,because the poor producers and even Abrams don't know the fans don't like tight uniforms.
3. The nevrotic behaviour of the main characters was stolen from nu BSG,even this was the only flaw of the show ,excepting the female Starbuck.
4. The bathroom scenes were stolen from B5,last seasons.
5.The LBGT kiss scenes were stolen fom Torchood.
6. I come to peace phrase was stolen fom Dark Angel ,one of the best movies with aliens as good as Predator.
7. Emperor's weapons were stolen from Season Of The Witch and Dark Angel.
8. The Cyborg girl was stolen from Guardians Of The Galaxy (Nebula),a movie full of stolen ideas fom Star Trek (which is ironic is in't it ?..) like Andorian's anr Orion's look and they also stole the blue guy's look from Farscape ,from a plant alien.
9. The Klingon prequel conflict with the Klingons was stolen from A Prelude To Axanar,there is no wonder they were against that production so badly.
10. The ship's name and the encounter with Enterprise from the second season were stolen from Star Trek Horizon,which is also a fan made production.
11. The Tardigrade idea was stolen from an youtube LBGT sci-fi cartoon fan production ,Captain Tardigrade ,Defendor Of The Multiverse,created in 2015.
12. Kayla Detmer's Cyborg's character is a pale copy of Seven of Nine from Star Trek Voyager.
13. The blink jumps and blink drive was stolen from Dark Matter .
14. The Star Trek Discovery shorts were stolen from the numerous short gif anti or pro Star Trek Discovery movies from Tenor.
Star Trek: Discovery: The Vulcan Hello (2017)
The list of stolen ideas
1. The Klingons were stolen from Galaxy Quest,from a scene with character doing cosplay.
2. The uniform was stolen from Killjoys,because the poor producers and even Abrams don't know the fans don't like tight uniforms.
3. The nevrotic behaviour of the main characters was stolen from nu BSG,even this was the only flaw of the show ,excepting the female Starbuck.
4. The bathroom scenes were stolen from B5,last seasons.
5.The LBGT kiss scenes were stolen fom Torchood.
6. I come to peace phrase was stolen fom Dark Angel ,one of the best movies with aliens as good as Predator.
7. Emperor's weapons were stolen from Season Of The Witch and Dark Angel.
8. The Cyborg girl was stolen from Guardians Of The Galaxy (Nebula),a movie full of stolen ideas fom Star Trek (which is ironic is in't it ?..) like Andorian's anr Orion's look and they also stole the blue guy's look from Farscape ,from a plant alien.
9. The Klingon prequel conflict with the Klingons was stolen from A Prelude To Axanar,there is no wonder they were against that production so badly.
10. The ship's name and the encounter with Enterprise from the second season were stolen from Star Trek Horizon,which is also a fan made production.
11. The Tardigrade idea was stolen from an youtube LBGT sci-fi cartoon fan production ,Captain Tardigrade ,Defendor Of The Multiverse,created in 2015.
12. Kayla Detmer's Cyborg's character is a pale copy of Seven of Nine from Star Trek Voyager.
13. The blink jumps and blink drive was stolen from Dark Matter .
14. The Star Trek Discovery shorts were stolen from the numerous short gif anti or pro Star Trek Discovery movies from Tenor.