Early review for "Context Is For Kings"

[Vger23]

The last time I allowed myself to be "spoiled" was when I read the entire plot synopsis of Star Trek III in the Starlog Poster Magazine Special back in 1984 before my dad had a chance to take me to the movie. Yes...back in 1984. Haha...!

And the one time I was reading a completely unrelated series of comments on a sports network's Facebook page and some A-HOLE posted <SPOILER BTW>


"BTW- Kylo Ren is Han Solo's son and kills him in the end" before I had a chance to see TFA.

I wanted to rip that person's guts out and feed them to him.

 

[CRM-114]

I always got a weird vibe from Knowles’ writing. Not surprised to see this.

Harry doesn’t write, he spills all his thoughts into a keyboard; if the site weren’t his, he’d have been fired long ago, since he’s easily their worst writer.

 

[Awesome Possum]

I always got a weird vibe from Knowles’ writing. Not surprised to see this.

Go look up his Blade 2 and Heroes season 1 review, two of the most disgusting things I've read on a review site.

 

[Campe]

Go look up his Blade 2 and Heroes season 1 review, two of the most disgusting things I've read on a review site.

Yeah, I didn't need to read those. After the Heroes one, I couldn't even finish the Blade 2 one.

 

[Mad Jack Wolfe]

Harry doesn’t write, he spills all his thoughts into a keyboard; if the site weren’t his, he’d have been fired long ago, since he’s easily their worst writer.

I've given up hoping he learns about two of the most important keys on any writer's keyboard: Backspace and Delete.

 

[CRM-114]

I've given up hoping he learns about two of the most important keys on any writer's keyboard: Backspace and Delete.

Before I read any article, I always check to see who wrote it before I start reading. If it’s written by “headgeek”, I automatically skip it.

 

[CRM-114]

Yeah, I didn't need to read those. After the Heroes one, I couldn't even finish the Blade 2 one.

What put me off Harry was his review of Toy Story 3. He was legitimately offended by the idea that a grown man could (or would) ever consider putting his toys away or giving them to someone younger who would actually play with them.

He’s got issues, definitely.

 

[Vger23]

What put me off Harry was his review of Toy Story 3. He was legitimately offended by the idea that a grown man could (or would) ever consider putting his toys away or giving them to someone younger who would actually play with them.

He’s got issues, definitely.

Seriously??

One of the greatest joys I've had is handing my old stuffed animals and toys that my parents kept to my young sons.

 

[CRM-114]

Seriously??

One of the greatest joys I've had is handing my old stuffed animals and toys that my parents kept to my young sons.

Well, you and your parents appreciated the notion of “toys are for kids to enjoy”. I can appreciate having fond memories of things I played with as a kid, but I don’t want to hold to all the “stuff” from when I was a kid. I have very little left, but it’s what I’ve wanted to keep, not some massive collection that I can’t bear to part with without dying inside.

 

[Campe]

What put me off Harry was his review of Toy Story 3. He was legitimately offended by the idea that a grown man could (or would) ever consider putting his toys away or giving them to someone younger who would actually play with them.

He’s got issues, definitely.

Knowles is probably the type of person who believes Al was the hero of Toy Story 2.

 

[Jarvisimo]

Tbh reviews like Alan Sepinwall's included reference to the third episode since he had been sent the first three.
http://uproxx.com/sepinwall/star-trek-discovery-review/

Spoiler: Sepinwall

Some are given quirks that are still being refined (Mary Wiseman plays an anxious cadet who refers to having “special needs,” but in the early stages this just manifests as her snoring and having a few allergies), while others like Captain Georgiou and Gabriel Lorca (Jason Isaacs) — an officer who takes an interest in Michael’s skills — are asked to lean on the thankfully sturdy screen presence of the actors playing them.
[...]
The Klingon scenes — subtitled, with most of the dialogue delivered in a guttural yell by actors buried under makeup that limits their expressiveness — can be a chore to get through, and the show isn’t always subtle with the Starfleet characters, either. Lorca has an eye injury (and a reluctance to have it fixed by modern medicine) that forces him to mostly sit in dim rooms, lest you miss the idea that Discovery takes place in a darker corner of the Star Trek mythos. And the third episode introduces a potential technological breakthrough that could be more narrative trouble than it’s worth, since it’s more advanced than anything Picard or Sisko or Janeway got to enjoy on shows set a century later.

 

[Jack Watkins]

Ain't It Cool News spoiling Star Trek episodes. Feels like 2001 all over again.

 

[Longinus]

Tbh reviews like Alan Sepinwall's included reference to the third episode since he had been sent the first three.
http://uproxx.com/sepinwall/star-trek-discovery-review/

Spoiler: Sepinwall

Some are given quirks that are still being refined (Mary Wiseman plays an anxious cadet who refers to having “special needs,” but in the early stages this just manifests as her snoring and having a few allergies), while others like Captain Georgiou and Gabriel Lorca (Jason Isaacs) — an officer who takes an interest in Michael’s skills — are asked to lean on the thankfully sturdy screen presence of the actors playing them.
[...]
The Klingon scenes — subtitled, with most of the dialogue delivered in a guttural yell by actors buried under makeup that limits their expressiveness — can be a chore to get through, and the show isn’t always subtle with the Starfleet characters, either. Lorca has an eye injury (and a reluctance to have it fixed by modern medicine) that forces him to mostly sit in dim rooms, lest you miss the idea that Discovery takes place in a darker corner of the Star Trek mythos. And the third episode introduces a potential technological breakthrough that could be more narrative trouble than it’s worth, since it’s more advanced than anything Picard or Sisko or Janeway got to enjoy on shows set a century later.

*Sigh*

I thought the Lorca eye thing was a joke when I heard it mentioned first. As for the tech, why the fuck they always have to do this? Personally I think that the main strength of TOS era setting is that the tech is more limited; it got really out of hand in later series, VOY in particular.

 

[Mad Jack Wolfe]

I thought the Lorca eye thing was a joke when I heard it mentioned first.

One of the most enduring Trek legacies is heavy-handed metaphor.

 

[Gonzo]

Tbh reviews like Alan Sepinwall's included reference to the third episode since he had been sent the first three.
http://uproxx.com/sepinwall/star-trek-discovery-review/

Spoiler: Sepinwall

Some are given quirks that are still being refined (Mary Wiseman plays an anxious cadet who refers to having “special needs,” but in the early stages this just manifests as her snoring and having a few allergies), while others like Captain Georgiou and Gabriel Lorca (Jason Isaacs) — an officer who takes an interest in Michael’s skills — are asked to lean on the thankfully sturdy screen presence of the actors playing them.
[...]
The Klingon scenes — subtitled, with most of the dialogue delivered in a guttural yell by actors buried under makeup that limits their expressiveness — can be a chore to get through, and the show isn’t always subtle with the Starfleet characters, either. Lorca has an eye injury (and a reluctance to have it fixed by modern medicine) that forces him to mostly sit in dim rooms, lest you miss the idea that Discovery takes place in a darker corner of the Star Trek mythos. And the third episode introduces a potential technological breakthrough that could be more narrative trouble than it’s worth, since it’s more advanced than anything Picard or Sisko or Janeway got to enjoy on shows set a century later.

Yeah there are a few other aspects in the episode that some will have an issue with, if Discovery is itself the test bed for new technologies its reasonable to conclude that some of them will fail and wont be viable until the technology has advanced further.

That's one way they can get around such issues but based on what I have seen so far it cant be a priority for the script writers and designers.