Wednesday 25 May 2022

Deep Space Nine - The Storyteller

I have already forgot most of this episode.

The Jake and Nog stuff is cute while the O'Brien and Bashir stuff is interesting from a looking at the genesis of their relationship POV. 

Its a reluctant 2/10 from me, I feel like I'm watching an episode pitch that hasn't been fully written up. There are a lot of good ideas and Nogs "oatmeal" trick is actually very funny, no doubt there is the seed of a good episode in here. The only suggestion I have is that maybe it should have been pushed back and given more time in pre production.

Ricky Gervais - My Thoughts...

Ricky Gervais is one of those people who are so shallow theres just nothing to them. If he hadn't have got onto TV he's the kind of person who if you worked with you send memos or emails at every chance in order to avoid a meeting. I know he's released stuff recently that other people have rated highly, however I won't be watching any of it. He's lumped himself in with people who have thrown me out of job interviews, people who have attacked me and people who in various ways have lowered my quality of life. 


In short I have no time whatsoever for Gervais and his ilk, they have had far to much influence on the lives of the Transgender community. In response I've no doubt Gervais will pull his "oooh I've been cancelled routine" and in answer to that I say being cancelled is having recruit consultants slam the phone down on you when they hear your voice, being cancelled is having a managing director restructure the company so you don't have a job, being cancelled is when someone throws abuse at you and instead of help all bystanders do is shrug their shoulders and mumble something about everyone deserves an opinion. I hope this educates anyone of his ilk of cancellation, in the meantime I've got stuff to do.

Sunday 1 May 2022

Deep Space Nine - Battle Lines

Its an odd episode this week as some long term beats in the opus that is Deep Space Nine are introduced albeit in a song that isn't very good. We see more of the Kai this week and through her and Kira we are introduced to the religion of Bajor. However bar the three regulars who carry the meat of the episode everything else is bad or just doesn't work.

The script is perhaps the worst we've seen yet, most of the guest cast feel like their not trying and the main problem where this episode fails is that it writes out a character who hasn't been properly written into the show yet. In order for the viewer to care about Kai Opaka we need to have seen more of her - from memory I don't think she's shown up since the pilot. This could have been done anywhere up to this point, she could have been a guest speaker at the school or maybe an early victim of the Babel plague.

Its a very rare 1/10 from me.