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Star Trek: Strange New Worlds: Charades (2023)
what the f...
Aliens erase Spock's vulcan DNA, and apparently, your upbrinning, cultural heritage and entire personality are stored in your genes. Othervise, I cannot understand why Spock-turned-human is acting like an agressive toddler and suddenly doesn't remember how "to be vulcan". Spock eats meat. Why. Vulcans don't eat meat because of their culture, not because they are herbivores. Spock is rude to everyone and doesn't apologise after having his tantrums. Again, WHY.
Spock lost his intelligence, compassion, loyalty - all the qualities that MADE him Spock. And not just in this episode - the whole show treats the legacy character with utmost disrespect.
Wo bu shi Pan Jin Lian (2016)
Not quite sure what to make of this film
"I am not Pan Jilian" in many ways reminds of 1960s Krushchew Thaw era films. The often critisized Soviet burocracy, but in an optimistic way, as in the end, good men win and bring change.
One one hand, although only six years passed, it is hard to imagine such a film possible in a nowadays China, where actors are persecuted (including Fan Bingbing herself) and famous bloggers dissapear in the thin air.
On the other hand, despite the seemingly critical outlook on CCP, in the end, the moral is that protest is vain and should be nipped in the bud, or 'sesame seed will become watermellon'. You see, the problem is not that oficials can persecute a person for years just for speaking out, the problem is that these oficials are "inatentive to the needs of the common people".
Then, of course, there is this horrific rape scene after which Xuelian says that she 'never felt better'. Yikes.
The films main strength is visual stoytelling. The varying frame shapes devide and show us two worlds. The round-shaped frames remind of the moon gates, common in traditional chinese gardens. Circular frames show us the somewhat backwards rural life. The square frames show us orderly world of the Party machine.
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds (2022)
Is sci-fi dead?
There is so many issues with this show. Mostly, bad writing.
Spock's interacting with T'Pring is written as a parody on vulcans, for one. The dialogs are just off. One of the major Treck strengs was always some moral in every story. The writers however focus on charecter's tragic backstories that are not even connected with the plot. Apperently, neither the Prime Directive nor ban of eugenics mean anything in this universe. Overall, it's just action-packed and at the same time boring. So far I like Hammer and Ortega most - the only charecters that don't have PTSD, but I suppose in next episodes Ortega will casually mention on the bridge that she was molested by Klingons as a child or smth.
Where are new exciting science we discovered in the past few decades? The new increadible forms of life or models of societies? Is sci-fi dead?