Reviews

This will have spoilers, putting it out there from the start.

Let's go to the big one shall we? We meet Scotty! And what a random introduction to him and yes it did feel a bit shoehorned in but the way we meet him does make sense. I guess he becomes a season 3 regular now.

This episode felt very Jurassic Park in space and there is a lot of plot convenience like Nurse Chappell surviving the ship's destruction and just conveniently having Spock there for them to have a convenient but nice space moment.

Pike's girlfriend is about to explode and what a finish to the episode with her being essentially a ticking time bomb while they are being attacked pretty fiercely by a very formidable enemy. Sentient dinosaurs basically are running around and they are really scary. This is how you build a villain, they do, as Pike said, just seem like monsters who enjoy being monsters.

That said, Pike talking about a way of reaching them will clearly hear fruit in season 3 but how much death will happen in the interim until that happens? I do like that they showed the Federation as being really competent here as they have been planning for this attack for some time but covertly.

All in all, this was an absolute cliffhanger where I don't know what decision Pike will make next and it sucks we have to wait a long time I suppose to find out.

A strong end to a very strong season.

I do find it a bit sad the rating so far but I also get it. First of all, this series continues to be excellent and has really captured the essence of the far better legacy series. This episode was bonkers as it should have been given it is basically a journey into the multiverse, albeit Batman The Brave and The Bold music man episode style.

You could see the entire cast was having a ball and if that was their real voices, wow that's a talented cast. Some of those songs were beautiful but there were too many of them. Shout out to the highlight of the episode - the reluctant Klingon boy band - hilarious.

Aside from too many songs, the other nitpick I have is the timing of the episode seems well out of place following the very serious and very good last one about the doctor. After all of that delving into psyche and PTSD, to follow it up with this singing and dancing bonanza is very jarring. This probably would have been better earlier in the season but also given the progression in the Kirk - Singh relationship, it kind of has to be a bit later I suppose. That said, given they spoke that to each other instead of singing, maybe it could have been re-arranged.

And on that note, while all the actors/ characters do really well and is a strong point of this show, shout out to Cheong, she is really, really shining this season, she has a lot of nuance in that role and it is fantastic.

So yeah, it was a lot of fun and I'm glad we got that episode even if it wasn't perfect.

This show had the potential to be great but somehow, ended up awful. A strong cast, an interesting premise and one of the strongest arcs in comics to draw from, plus a huge budget. I really don't understand how it went so pear-shaped.

The first episode was strong to the point I was hooked for episode 2 and was excited to talk about something Marvel again, which hasn't been the case much since Endgame and in terms of TV shows, hasn't really happened since Loki. Then it somehow took a fast turn left and then right before spinning totally out of control and literally, with the president, crashing. I am not sure there is much to pick out of the wreckage either.

I just don't know what this show was trying to be. It started off a nice continuation of the Fury / Talos comradery and dealing with the effect the Blip had on this friendship. Talos was a compelling character by a fantastic actor...until he was unceremoniously killed off...and for what reason? His sacrifice ended up being totally in vain and took away one of the few reasons to keep watching this show.

Fury did not seem like Fury at all in this show and leaving Talos for dead, while in the moment understandable, did not have any pay off. Fury's wife was also just...there. Again, what was the pay off with her character? You can take her out and literally nothing in this show changes.

Of course no one stays dead now either because of Extremis suddenly being a thing again...until the plot needs someone to stay dead...at least for now I suppose.

And why did Fury give up the 'harvest'? This was an extremely stupid thing to do and for no good reason seemingly other than to end up in a big boring CGI final battle. Gravik may well go down as one of the worst villains of all time which is a shame because he had a somewhat interesting start. What was Fury going to do if Giah didn't win?

And now of course, Giah, a character we really don't care about, who should be dead, is now suddenly the most OP character in the MCU. Maybe they will just do a Pepper Potts and forget she has powers moving forward. As it stands, she will just be an incredibly boring character because who can match her? She is all the powers in the MCU and of course, both her and Gravik can suddenly use all their powers perfectly with no training whatsoever.

And everything Fury did just made the world worse and the MCU worse. The world is now in a total state of anarchy, and he's like...meh, I'm outta here, you guys are on your own.

And the final stupidity speech from the president totally takes a dump on Talos' sacrifice, why? His loss really amounted to absolutely nothing other than to send a message his hope was wrong I guess.

There are so many out flaws, disappointments and head scratchers that I just don't think I have the energy to waste any more time on going over.

I think this show is it for me with Marvel sadly until Loki comes out because once again, the MCU has ended another exciting project as a disappointing mess. Earth's Mightiest Heroes, the animated series, did this whole storyline MUCH, MUCH better.

That really was a disappointing end to a very disjointed show. The world has been left in a worse state than it started and Fury seems oddly ok with that.

Gravik really did amount to nothing in the end. Now we have Gaia as the most overpowered superhero in the universe and it just feels...meh. That was entirely forgettable, a generic superhero v same same supervillain CGIfest.

I wanted this show to be good but it really wasn't and this plain and simple, may be the worst show finale of all the Marvel shows.

Not really sure where they go from her but I don't really care. Maybe Marvel fatigue has got me now too.

It is hard to do this without spoilers but that was a great episode. I haven't been a fan of some of the slower stand alone episodes in this series so far, though I think they will be much better binge watched. That said, it has been enjoyable so far but this week, the slow pacing was spot on. That conversation between Mon Mothma and her old friend was the best script writing in Star Wars, the layers and the hidden meaning and the strength of performance between the two actors was exceptional. The slow noose of the empire followed by the trap door falling, brilliant. This episode is the first one where I've thought, yep these pieces are coming together REALLY well now.

And Ord Mantel!! This is where the fun...continues!