Reviews

I cut my teeth with Fallout New Las Vegas but it is Fallout 4 I really love. This series captures essence of the FO world and does so in a way that makes you want more and not just tickle your memberberries. The use of flashbacks to the world before compliments the present day story.

I am a harsh critic of modern storytelling but the story building here is intriguing, characters interesting with little issues that I would call foul. In fact, the only dialog issue I had was in episode 6 when Maximus and Lucy are in vault 4 holding cell. Lucy asks Maximus if he wants to get it on. Her asking that and his response are totally uncalled for and has no place in the story.

My only other critique, the Brotherhood isn't developed well and Maximus place within them seems very strange. Although the actor playing Maximus does a great job, it seems they don't know what to really do with him. One moment he is a likeable guy and another a future serial killer, you know, the quiet guy who stares creepily at you.

As I watch the series for a second time I would also add, stop with all the cameos. If they are not a main character don't use well known actors for bit roles.

I look forward to season 2.

I am playing this on Xbox x and I really am enjoying this game. From the more open world options to the story this is an improvement on the first. Three complaints I have are, the women look more like boys and are missing the feminine look, the reliance on way too many timed jumps while running walls and such and the occasional crash of the game when I just completed said timed jumps and now have to do it again. Of the three I would say the worst is the women because it makes me ask, is this a sign of the times we are living in?

The story was great, much better than anything with Rey in it. I just wish they expanded a little more on the relationship with Merrin which deserves much more time, perhaps a 3rd game or movie will do that.

There were great bits if cgi and tremendous amounts of Remember Berries to tickle our nostalgia but what was there of substance? The answer is, nothing. A lot of stuff happened but was easily overcome by just waiting a few more minutes and listening to a speech.

There was really no struggle. No heroes journey.

In episode 9 we had the reveal of the Borg queen played by Alice Krige, WOW! Bringing back a major antagonist that could be the spark of life for this season was something I was really hoping for. But what did we get? A character that basically occupied a corner of the set and gave useless dialog in a threatening tone.

You can sum up this season with, they pulled from a bucket of what they thought the audience would like and just slapped it into episodes. This is a perversion of our beloved heroes and the intellectual property. This is such bad nothingness surrounded by flashy cgi and Remember Berries. This is evidence of the decline of our civilization.

This season has, in nearly every scene, something that is a call back to Star Trek: The Next Generation as well as other Star Trek productions. On the surface this wouldn't be a bad thing but they lay it on so thick and so often it has become a joke, with few exceptions. It is those exceptions that really tug the nostalgia but it is those exceptions that are what they season should have been centered on but instead we got SO much nostalgia it became laughable. The most laughable is in this episode where the Enterprise D saucer section returns attached to another sold Galaxy Class star drive section and our heroes comondere it.

Compared to the first two seasons this season is fantastic and the CGI is just beautiful, this episode and the Borg cubes in the nebula was just outstanding. The other great part, Alice Krige return as the Borg Queen; she was such a great antagonist and her return tickled my brain juices.

The show overall is a perversion of what Gene Roddebberry's vision of the Federation was to be. When the Federation in Picard is just as bad as the world today, where is the hope? Is it in our heroes who have become so cynical? Another perversion is seen visually. Where TNG had bright settings aboard ships, this one makes you question whether the Federation can pay of electricity.

This is another example of our modern lazy writing but I am SO glad it is not leftist preaching of the first two seasons.

What I liked: music and animation are fantastic, high stakes story with dire consequences,

What I disliked: the team fails again, how many does this make this season? Omega is a terrible character who shouldn't be on any mission let alone with the team and that laser bow thing is just dumb, almost as bad as a laser slingshot. Some might say, oh but she is a child and you are right, she is until they want her to suddenly be good at something then she is an expert. Her thinking she knows best and not listening to orders from the team always turns out bad, she is just a terrible character. All season long this happened like thr writers didn't know what to do with her and now here at the end, she is just a bargaining chip, LOL!

With the exception of a few episodes as seen individually, this season was so poorly written, layed-out and all around telling of a story. As someone who saw A New Hope when it opened in theaters, this is insulting bad!

I am done with the Mandalorian and I am done with this show and I am done with Disney Star Wars. Oh and for me, Acolyte is DOA and Skeleton Crew? All garbage!

What I liked: music and animation are fantastic and high stakes story with dire consequences.

What I disliked: the team fails again, how many does this make this season? Omega is a terrible character who shouldn't be on any mission let alone with the team and that laser bow thing is just dumb, almost as bad as a laser slingshot. Some might say, oh but she is a child and you are right, she is until they want her to suddenly be good at something then she is an expert.

Also, this show doesn't even remember history, star dust isn't the project for the death star, it was a subproject and their Remember Berries the writers gave was only to tickle our brains and include Crenec.

I am done with the Mandalorian and I am done with this show and I am done with Disney Star Wars.

One of my biggest complaints about this season is its use of Remember Berries to tickle the nostalgia juices in your brain. In fact the whole plot seems to be centered on its usage. Then comes the space heist scene at Daystom Labs and I had my nostalgia juices tickled by Moriarity. This would have been great if it wasn't just a 30 second bit and he was a major player, alas it was a wasted chance.

Best lines come from Worf and Riker while Raffi is just a walking cardboard cutout of a human delivering lines and being a very clingy former romantic partner.

Geordi's character is made to look poorly in thr face of his daughters while one of them and Jack Crusher suddenly know how to install a 100 year old cloaking device into a modern starship, where is the Titan's engineering team?

This send off season could have been much better but with wasted talent and over use of nostalgia, the story is falling flat.

I will start with what I liked, which was Grogu's flashback to the fall of the Jedi temple. In yet another attempt at tickling your brain with a Remember Berries, it is initiated by the same thing Din's flashback from season 1, the Armourer's hammering. Another thing I liked was the special effects with the inflight dragon fight.

What I detest and what killed the whole series for me. Short episode with really nothing of consequence other than Grogu's flashback. The long camera shots on the beach went on far too long for such a short episode, we get it, they are training. Yet another monster attacks them on the beach, these warriors really stuck at defending themselves. The monster takes a foundling, the one from episode 1 and the Mandaloriams take chase with their jet packs but oh no, they run out of fuel. But no worries Strong Female Character who is smarter uses her ship. SFC then tracks the monster back but they take at least 12 hours to reach the nest, because, reasons. By the time they reach the nest there are 3 angy young monsters and then from nowhere, momma shows up and vomits the very dry and very alive foundling, WHAT UTTER CRAP!

Now that isn't the worst part. The worst part comes after they defeat momma monster and get the foundling back home. There Bo Katan, SFC, gets praise from the Armourer then Bo announces, there are more foundlings to raise and out from her ship come three baby monsters. WHAT GARBAGE!

This episode was only to lift up another character that is not The Mandalorian.

I am done with this show! This has been some of the laziest, contrived and just amateur production that has come from what should be a serious show.