Dr. Fortyseven

Been following him on Masto for a while now; he seems like a good dude, and often has interesting Trek trivia or observations. 👍

The music seemed to suggest she was some big character reveal, but instead I think they were just excited that they got Curtis to film something from her bathroom via Cameo for $50 so they could have her in the movie.

Despite my negative reaction to the trailer, and hearing all the early spoiler-free reviews validating that reaction, I went into it hoping for a guilty pleasure of some kind, where I can go “yeah that wasn’t great, but I kinda liked it”.

Not so much. (I wrote up a full thing over here. Spoiler: it’s a 1 out of 5 for me.)

But here’s some positives, since this group contains perhaps the most generous comments I’ve ever seen about it so far, and I don’t want to spoil that vibe:

• I think the cast was decent; the guy playing Quasi especially stood out to me. Liked their casting for Rachel Garrett, and the bit of personality they gave her; it doesn’t stomp on her TNG appearance, just adds to it. And she kinda looks like her if you squint.

• The core concept is fine, and with a huge overhaul they could have had something here. Yet by the end of this thing, I could almost see this going forward with more episodes. Few shows hit the ground running before finding the right balance. Unfortunately this will never get that chance.

• The sets and VFX are quite good for a streaming series at times.

• The angry face on the Deltan before she left was amazing? (I’m really struggling here.)

Probably should have made some Star Trek then. 😏

Just as the words “Life Star” popped out of my mouth, I realized that already existed: https://hartfordhospital.org/services/life-star

*I liked the reveal of Ruby’s mother being a normal woman. *

Yeah! There’s a lot of ideas in Last Jedi that I really enjoyed and looked forward to being explored, and Rey’s parents being “nobody”, suggesting that you didn’t have to be in a special “Jedi/Sith destiny” club to be important was one of my favorite ones. It was optimistic. Hopeful. Anyone can be the hero. That’s powerful stuff.

Absolutely foolish that they dumped that whole idea in the next film. (Then again there’s so much wrong with Ep9 that it might as well be decanonzed.)

…threw him into the time vortex again, but this time it’s permanent, I guess precisely because he’d done it once before. Okay, fine, I guess.

It’s not terribly satisfying outcome, admittedly. I mean, it was fun to watch in the moment, sure, but it’s not exactly a clever resolution… 🤷