My favorite F·R·I·E·N·D. Rest in Peace, Matthew Perry.
Finale: Strange New Worlds, Season 2
Helluva cliffhanger, almost as good as “Mr. Worf… fire.”
Now, since the Gorn are more prominent on this show than they were in The Original Series/TOS/Those Old Scientists, would it be too much to think that we’re gonna see the Metrons in place of the Organians in next season’s Season 3 premiere, where they put a stop to hostilities, but not before having Pike fight the Gorn Captain?
Because you sure as hell can’t tell me this takes place in the TOS/Prime timeline if Starfleet is about to go to war with the Gorn, years before the Cestus III incident.
Also, yay, it’s Scotty!
Looking forward to next season.
Anything Goes
So that was a thing.
Can’t say I loved it, but it was a lesser episode compared to the previous two week’s offerings.
Personally I think “Once More, With Feeling” and “Duet” were better musical episodes in their respective series. And like those two episodes, “Subspace Rhapsody” was a character-centric piece. Character story arcs were moved along, relationships developed and in one case, ending?
I do like that they are still trying to connect the dots with The Original Series and even the TOS films with the mentioning of a couple of characters who are quite important for the characters associated with them.
And the song that Spock/Ethan Peck sang? Hell, that could have been me describing my past relationships.
I eagerly await the soundtrack.
Also, I nominate Christina Chong as title sequence singer for the next Bond film, based on her performance not in this episode, but from this music video that she has released.
And now I wanna see Bruce Horak leading a Klingon Boy Band. K-Pop takes on a new meaning, eh?
Give it a shot.
Recommended!
Sci-Fi in the 90s
It was weird, to say the least.
I got my pledge rewards from the Cyberpunk Red Combat Zone campaign yesterday, so of course it made me want to watch something related, so I ended up watching 1995’s Johnny Mnemonic, which I don’t believe I’ve watched since seeing it in the theatre, 28 years ago.
Hooboy, what a stinker of a film that was. I had forgotten who all else was in it besides Keanu Reeves. Ice-T? Dina Meyer? Henry Rollins? Dolph Lundgren?
Yeah.
Now I’m watching Starship Troopers, admittedly one of my guilty pleasure go-to movies, but yeah, this one isn’t that great either, truth be told.
Maybe I should follow this one up with Mars Attacks or Independence Day.
Secret Invasion
Justified: City Primeval
Dead Reckoning Part One
I seriously wasn’t planning to go see this on in the theatre.
But then I remembered how much I love this franchise.
It was long. Ridiculously long. Some of the set piece action scenes were long. Too long. They could have cut many of them short.
The movie clocks in at 2 hours 49 minutes.
That’s long.
But it was a good movie.
It hit all the right notes for an M:I film, for me.
I’d recommend it to die hard fans of the series.
Parallels
I’m a Giants and Mets fan, except when the Giants play the Mets, and I’m totally a Mets fan. Even though the Giants are my hometown team, and the first ball club that I knew.
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I’m a Godzilla and King Kong fan, except when Godzilla fights Kong, and I’m totally Team Kong. In this case I recall seeing the original King Kong (1933) before I ever saw a Godzilla film, the first of which might have been King Kong vs. Godzilla (1963).
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I drink Coca Cola and Pepsi. I prefer Pepsi.
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I’m a Star Wars and Star Trek fan. Period.
Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
I loved it. Maybe I’m a little biased, of course, but yeah, I loved it.
This movie hit all the right notes that Crystal Skull didn’t, IMHO.
From the opening scene which did something I’ve ALWAYS wanted to see in an Indiana Jones film, to the final scene which left me a little teary eyed, there wasn’t anything I disliked about the film.
Seriously. This is an Indiana Jones film, and I actually have the same feelings that I had when I first saw Last Crusade, a sequel worthy of the original.
And most definitely a fitting finale for the whole franchise.
I rank it 3rd, after Last Crusade and over Temple of Doom.
This was also the best film I’ve seen this year. Or at least the most entertaining.
4 Chachapoyan Idols out of 5.
Highly recommended. Go see it!
