She is essentially the Weasley analogGenuinely, I don’t think anyone is surprised to see these comments from you. You were never even trying to approach this show with an open mind, judging from other comments that you have made.
Aha, now I know why no one tried to sink the overall rating before the show went live, like was tried with Picard
It never crossed my mind, during the media hype. But, for some reason, it did during the early stages of this episode, before moving to the back of my mind, again.
I think I discarded it, because of the different surnames. For whatever reason, it didn’t cross my mind that Mariner may be using her fathers surname.
I like this twist. It adds some real weight to Mariner’s character.
We didn’t see what happened, in the aftermath of that stabbing. We also clearly saw evidence, in this episode, that she can twist Boimler’s arm to do whatever she wants.
The show is allowed to let us connect these dots ourselves, rather than spelling everything out
I actually quite liked Mariner. She’s a self-destructive person and, clearly, her own worst enemy.
Starting to see a recurring theme with who is against the new Trek shows, and who isn’t.
Hey, with the number of new shows coming out, you’ll soon get to say that you enjoy less than 50% of Trek’s television shows! Might as well give up, at that point
If you haven’t met a person like Mariner in your life, who has all the skills and abilities, but lacks the self-drive and discipline to use them correctly, then I’m very surprised. Mariner is very real.
Throw in the fact that she appears to be the daughter of a broken marriage and, suddenly, a lot starts to make sense about why she is the way she is. But, I guess you have to have an open mind to see all this, rather than sitting there for 20+ minutes, looking for things to complain about...
This show can’t win. Previously, it was being criticised because “Starfleet wouldn’t let such incapable and unprofessional people into their ranks,” but here you are, now criticising it for NOT having a senior crew that are incapable and unprofessional. Incredible.
The ship was taken over by an alien virus, because Ransom, our first officer, failed to report that he had been bitten by an alien insect.
If that’s not a screw up in the Trekverse, or not “f*cking up,” then I’ve no idea what is.
Humour is not just “jokes,” so if that is how you personally define comedy (“knock, knock!”), then this show was never going to work for you. Nor would many comedies, as it happens.
Characters can’t name drop legacy characters who they’ve likely studied and/or looked up to?
EDIT TO ADD: On second watch, I’ve realised that Mariner’s parents don’t actually appear to be separated, given he calls her sweetheart, and says he loves her. Either way, still an interesting dynamic, as you’d assume both parents have served on separate ships, to climb to their current positions, so Mariner likely hasn’t always had both parents around. Would explain a little.
Also, her parents are an Admiral, and a Captain. She, herself, clearly has ability and knowledge, but appears to have rebelled against the fact that her parents are such high-ranking officers. That’s a dynamic I don’t think we’ve seen before, in a regular?
I’ve not seen any of the replies to me, yet, but I imagine I’m probably already getting chewed out for thinking the parents were separated haha.
Spoilers Star Trek: Lower Decks 1x01 - "Second Contact"
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In love with the sound of their own voice?
Ron? Ginny? The Twins?
I liked this more than I thought I was going to. The opening credits were particularly funny. The characters were all established pretty quickly and I can only guess that the rest of the episodes are going to be better after some tweaking.
The things people find offense about online are remarkable to me. There are some really important things to worry about, but the "F word" in Picard or a naked cartoon gluteus maximus?
RAMA
Maybe. I'm not entirely a fan of longer than an hour and a half podcasts anyway, so I admit to having a bit of a bias there.
What gets me is the cries for Tarantino Trek from fans like he wouldn't use the f word.
To me, a podcast about a single movie or TV episode shouldn’t be longer than ten minutes. If they can’t say what they got to say in that amount of time, I’m not interested.
Many youtubers have the same problem.
It's mostly bad preparation. They keep repeating the same things, or don't know what to say, or struggle for words, or simply read articles that we can read ourselves.
Since I'm not clicking care to summarize?
Oh of course there would be. If its a "Piece of the Action" sequel you could bet on a lot of Tommy guns splitting people in two.
I like about an hour, maybe hour and 15. You need time for discussion, especially if you have 2 or more hosts.
They're also doing Q&A with the audience during it.
That's probably what slows the Trekyards guys down the most, the Superchats. And, well, sometimes The Commander goes on wild tangents, what ifs and maybes.
I've watched one Trekyards in the last year and a half...their predilection for pumping out any content possible to just to make YT their sole income just makes the channel very distasteful.
They only really 'pump out' when there is new show running, where there's no Trek on the air they don't do as much.
I'm not sure how making youtube videos for a living is 'distasteful', that's pretty insulting to the people out there that make good content.
I've seen them dissect every detail in an episode with half-a-dozen videos!
Their YT audience is a bunch of drooling, musty, gatekeepers too.
The only reason I watched the one episode was because they had a guest on (John Eaves I believe).
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