Reviews

As a book reader I knew there will be changes to the story and some of them I am not going to like. The real problem of the show are changes, but the way how story is being handled. It's just not that good. At the beginning I was thinking, that WoT is going to be competition for GoT. It's not even close. The dialogues, plot, actor's are not on the same level. Witcher with all it's flows is better than this show. I don't even know what I watched. Aes Sedai stopping trollocs, after their man being slaughtered, when they could have done it from the beginning is only tip of the iceberg. I am not interested in second season.

WoT is a great, but very complicated story, so changes are expected. Sadly, they took it bizarre approach. Some scenes look like there were taken from other shows and movies (wizard is coming to town and mysterious mark made from dead bodies). There is one women are powerful scene and at some point, story changes into teen drama. Casting is moderately good, although Nynaeve looks to old. Actress in not even 30, but she looks much older. And the changes to the story are very painful. It's seems like duality of the magic is going to abandoned.

Third season was awful, so the expectation for fourth were set pretty low. Most of the episode was dedicated to show new dynamics in the federation and the fleet. The new, big danger is yet to be truly revealed. Ending was really strong. I was not expecting to see destruction of Books planet. It's little bit different from typical positive Star Trek stories. Interaction between Michael and President are going to be probably very important later in the future.

It's not your typical Marvel movie, that's for sure. Is it a good movie? Not really. It does have good moments, but the story is to weak and some character's have basically glorified cameo. It should have been made into a show or just concentrate on more important Eternals. Killing some of them of early in the movie doesn't help with getting know them better. There is now real villain and everything seems wasted. It's more of very long end credit scene or trailer before Eternals 2. This supposed to be the biggest movie of the year, but it probably end up as biggest disappointment.

As story progresses, character's are getting more annoying. Salvor Harding (name is another anagram, by the way) is trying her best to join Mary Sue group, alongside Rey and Michael Burnham. She is not the worst part of the show, but she is lead. I was expecting more.

Story by itself is confusing. To many clones, to many timeskip. Not enough story in story.

It begins with big fight, but it's getting calmer after. The fight itself is great. Good choreography, fine special effects. Everything what we expecting from big budget show, but the good part starts after that. There are many great character development moments. John Walker anger after being abandoned by his government. Isaiah anger toward the same government and white people in general and Sam's anger towards system that allowed that to happen. The only person who seems to have solution is Sam. He takes the mantle of Captain America, even though Isaiah said to him that would basically made him traitor to his race abd Isaiah have every reason to think that, but that way of thinking it will not fix anything and whole episode is about fixing things and choices. Overall, very good and necessary episode. Shows why television in better medium to create more complicated stories.

This review is more of a season review than episode review. Third season is finally over and I think that I am not going to watch fourth. The story was really bad, riddled with bad decisions and melodrama. First episode was good and if they had used as soft reboot of series, this season would have been more entertaining, but they went with Michael being center of everything. Making Tilly Number One, giving Burnham captain seat, sending of Phillippa and Saru - those were mistakes. New characters didn't bring anything fresh or new or good, although Booker have potential, but he is to tide up to Michael. Main crew is sidelined or dissappearing and appearing. I barely remember there names. Burn storyline was treated poorly and conclusion was underwhelming, so it's new Star Trek reality. There are no new species, no new threats. What's happened with Borg and Q? Where are Klingons? Did Federation and rest of the galaxy regressed? Only hope is that, new shows are going to be better, but I doubt it.

There are only four episodes left and one is going to be dedicated to whatever is happening with Phillippa. We know nothing about the Burn, the plot is going nowhere. First episode of new season was very refreshing. New world, new story, no constraints from older shows. I think that potential was wasted.

Saru is trying his best to be a new captain, but his approach is not yielding the result that he is hoping for. He is not Pike or Georgiou, he lacks charisma and deceiveness and its going to be an issue in future episodes. Michael is saving Discovery at the last moment, but that was to be expected. Overall, pretty standard ST:D episode - a step down from the last one.

It's not a bad start. It's definitely entertaining and I am hoping that rest of the season is going to as good as this episode. We finally got some new tech, new interesting premises and no restrictions whatsoever. It's a new beginning for the show, let's hope that they will not screw it up.

This episode was divided into three main stories. Two of them we already knew, but one was new. Klingon part of episode had two goals. First, conclude Tyler story and second, reintroduce Empress. Michelle Yeoh is a highlight of the episode, even though she is present only for few minutes. Tilly story will be concluded in next episode and Spock part is a fuel for whole season. I would like to see more Michelle in this episode. Her appearance look more like a small pilot for her new series. Episode was slow, but it had it's moments.