I fear how many slash fics have been written about this screenshot alone... |
I like how this episode isn't a gigantic and terrible Ghost Hunters-knockoff and we're back to true form.
...I might still be a bit salty from last week.
Reviews, fiction, commentary, and speculation from the one and only MadCapMunchkin!
Yep! It was prequel time! Because that worked so well for George Lucas.
Enterprise is a discussion for another day. Needless to say, with the cancellation of that show, the Star Trek franchise had nothing new. No new movies, no new series. Nothing. This doesn't seem so strange until you realize that The Next Generation debuted in 1987, meaning that Star Trek had been on television in one form or another for eighteen years! If you go with the movies, even longer than that, given that something involving Star Trek had been in production or released fairly consistently since 1979, and now there was... nothing. Paramount decided to fix that problem and tasked Berman with getting the job done. After a great deal of issues between CBS and Paramount that I don't have the time, patience, or inclination to get into here, they got a hold of Alex Kurtzman, Robert Orci, and JJ Abrams.
This has made a lot of people very angry and has widely regarded as a bad move.
Bad news, right? Let's continue the story!
"Man, those demons are going to break in here and kill everyone! Too bad we're in jail." |
Yep. It's a siege story! I love these things!
What's gonna happen next?!
"Well, it's Tuesday... again..." |
This is a movie that would like to be that.
It fails.
And it fails hard.
This is the final outing for the Next Generation crew (in movies anyway), and this is definitely not ending with a bang, but a whimper. Let's get into it...
Hey, everybody! Been a while, hasn't it? Last time... look, a bunch of things happened and it turned into a massive cluster. Honestly, if it didn't, this wouldn't be a Doctor Who story, but let me try to sum up as best I can.
Unfortunately, they both suck. A lot.