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Like Dogs (2021)
Interesting ideas, terrible acting (except for leads), awful dialogue & pacing
This one needed some MAJOR work on the script. Randy should find a writing partner. The lines written for the actors (particularly the "comedy" duo in the control room) were atrocious. Get someone to polish your work and you might be onto something, Randy. Art direction and cinematography are mostly competent and occasionally intriguing. But the pacing and (especially) dialogue needed a LOT of work. This feels like a first draft even though I'm guessing it went through several revisions before becoming the shooting script.
Westworld: The Passenger (2018)
Extreme complexity for the sake of complexity is actually convolution
Philosophical one-liners and faux "deep" dialog do not make up for lack of a coherent storyline. Timeline hopping for the sake of cheap tricks isn't intelligent writing. Characters who change their motivations more often than their underwear aren't compelling. Multi-episode storylines rendered irrelevant in a few seconds of screen time or a throwaway line of dialog are a massive middle finger to the audience.
But hey, it looks really nice. Very flashy, like a music video with a $100 million budget.
I don't know if I can stomach Season 3. How in the world was anyone impressed by this cluster-you-know-what?
The Mandalorian: Chapter 13: The Jedi (2020)
It was okay but hardly worthy of a 9.6 average
I really don't get it. Maybe it's because I'm not really interested in seeing minor characters return. But the story was a watered-down version of the standard "quest" plot except with no twists or interesting events. IIRC the villagers didn't even get names. The idea that Mando would just walk away from a Jedi after searching the galaxy for one is a bit silly. I've enjoyed every single episode of The Mandalorian up until now. But this was weak and very unengaging.
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia: Dee Day (2019)
I wish I could rewatch this episode... what a shame we've regressed 50 years
Anyone who uses the term "POC" almost certainly has no black friends and probably didn't even meet a black person until they went to college. That's why I discount all the 1/10 reviews for this episode. Anyone who doesn't understand why it was funny for DEE to do something that stupid despite its racist context in a desperate attempt to gain attention from the guys must not have watched the show at any point during the past 15 years.
Star Trek: Picard: Et in Arcadia Ego, Part 2 (2020)
More nonsense from the master of nonsensical gloss
Another reviewer wrote:
"but something a lot of reviewers seem to gloss over is that this is the first Star Trek series where every race we see is working to accomplish a greater good (however misguided their understanding of what that means); literally no other Trek show to this point has done that"
Huh? What in the world are you talking about? The androids were trying to end all sentient life in the galaxy with a giant interdimensional mechanical octopus (yes, really). How is that accomplishing a "greater good"? You did watch the show, right?
Doctor Who: The Timeless Children (2020)
Chris should've listened to the advice of his 16-year-old self
I had given up on the show. But I decided to check out the last couple of episodes of this season just to see if anything was different. Oh, and it was... much, much worse. Chris Chibnall is the least effective Doctor Who showrunner since John Wiles in 1965. His obsession with rewriting the show's mythos despite his obvious lack of ability has finally wrecked the show beyond repair. Unfortunately, the show's only hope at this point is another 16-year hiatus to give people enough time to forget what was done during Chibnall's tenure.
Star Trek: Picard: The End Is the Beginning (2020)
More schlocky soap opera nonsense from the schlockmeister himself Alex Kurtzman
Once again we have a chosen one Mary Sue in the form of Sohj as "The Destroyer". It's DISCO season 2 and the "Red Angel" all over again. I don't think these writers understand the difference between sci-fi and fantasy. They also can't seem to figure out that cheap melodrama isn't the same as real drama that has been earned through good writing.
Apparently, Earth still has absolutely NO security and random Romulan death squads can attack Picard. How dumb.
Captain not-Han-Solo and the not-Millennium Falcon are about to take Obi-Jake Picard on a trip to save the princess... I mean, find Sohj. How uninspiring.
Raffi has "concrete proof" of Tal Shiar involvement but never mentioned it to Picard or anyone else in 14 years? How convenient.
So Starfleet participated in the plot to destroy Utopia Planitia in a "Bush did 9/11"-style conspiracy? How gross and completely un-Trek-like.
This is NOT how you write a Star Trek story.
Star Trek Into Darkness (2013)
One of the dumbest flicks I've ever had to suffer through
I don't usually use the word "flick" to describe a movie but it seems appropriate here. I have no idea why so many people rated this schlockfest so highly. It is insultingly stupid; almost like an action parody of Star Trek. The story is ludicrous and completely disjointed, the characters act like morons 99.999% of the time, and the ending was a lame ripoff of a much better Trek film. The screenwriter (Roberto Orci) is a 9/11 truther which is probably why nothing makes any sense and no attempt is made to connect one plot point to another. Things just happen, the scene changes, and more things happen. This was the beginning of the end for intelligent, thoughtful Trek. Thanks a lot, Alex Kurtzman. You're a complete hack and I wish you'd stop ruining genre properties.