Damn, that one was a flaming diaper.
At least Code of Honor had a decent score that wasn’t sonic wallpaper. That’s the only thing going for it.
There has been enough bad Trek spread across the last sixty+ years that no series is immune from very, very bad episodes.
Law of averages strikes again. That production machine could be unforgiving when pumping out 26 episodes a season.
Heck, they can’t even get ten episodes a season out the door without some turds mixed in.
They had to throw everything they had against the wall to see what sticks and if it didn't all stick they'd have to nail something to the wall.
No, it is more flaming than many others. "Code" is just one of the handful that's even worse.
It's bad even by Trek bad standards.
One of the things I hate most about streaming. When you have just 10 episodes to get a season right it's a lot easier to produce a bad season.
I actually enjoy Profit and Lace. I shall report for manditory lapidation.
I'm not deliberately contrarian it just sort of accidently happens once or twenty times.
I'm going to say that I'm completely unsurprised by this.
And that's the interesting thing. Back when it was 26 episodes of season; many thought that if they had a shorter season; they could spend more time making a lesser number of episodes better because they had more time to work on each episode. And people also thought they would pick better ideas and you wouldn't see any filler episodes.
And that's the interesting thing. Back when it was 26 episodes of season; many thought that if they had a shorter season; they could spend more time making a lesser number of episodes better because they had more time to work on each episode. And people also thought they would pick better ideas and you wouldn't see any filler episodes.
Boy, were we wrong!
The "quality over quantity" argument rarely holds water in the streaming era, at least when it comes to the Trek franchise.
Along with the shaving scene, the unique way the end fight was done, and Jessie Lawrence Ferguson's performance.
Is "Code of Honor" good? No, but there are some good things in it. Take out the overall casting of the Ligonians, and it's a more a midlevel episode.
I would avtually have to say "PROFIT AND LACE" is a worse episode than "Code of Honor". It has far less positives in it.
I never made the connection that that was the guy from Prince of Darkness until right now.
Honestly, I can relate. I like a lot of works that people seem to condemn; I’m not being contrarian, I just like looking for what a show gives me, as opposed to its flaws. (Then again, I’ve disliked some things that were near-universally loved, so I dunno.)
I mean, I probably sound contrarian when I say I had a lot of fun with PIC Season 3 but it's brain cell-killing levels of dumb. Because both are true. I both found it a big improvement over Season 2 and also, damn, is the plot of the final year so stupid that I have to wonder if Matalas was smoking a killer strain of weed the entire time he and his writers worked on those ten episodes.
"It can't be fun if it's that ridiculously stupid" is another phrase that doesn't hold water. You can have a great time with a movie or TV show that's empty calories and makes you feel dumb afterwards.
"It can't be fun if it's that ridiculously stupid" is another phrase that doesn't hold water. You can have a great time with a movie or TV show that's empty calories and makes you feel dumb afterwards.
You can have fun, as long as it doesn't bother you that it's being an embarrassing mess.
Personally I get enough of an attachment to series I love that I can't bear to watch them turning into absurd fantasy or being written by people who clearly do not get it. That's not fun to me, it pisses me off.
I mean I'm not saying this is the case with everything I watch. I really liked Disco's season 2 finale even though it's the stupidest hour of Star Trek since... I dunno, A Night in Sickbay. But it's very possible for me to not have fun if it's ridiculously stupid.
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