It doesn’t not sound old and grumpy…
Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Starfleet Academy | 1x08 “The Life of the Stars”
Lemmchen@feddit.org 14 hours ago
Maybe I’m just getting too old and grumpy for this teeny drama emotional crap, but for me this was the worst episode yet. I get that this was effectively trauma therapy after the Miyazaki incident, but boy was is not entertaining. It’s all just “oh, we are so damaged, nothing will ever be the same”. There’s nothing really at stake, no tension, no climax, just whining and speaking way too much in metaphors for my liking. I’m still watching Star Trek here after all and not some artsy independent movie.
ValueSubtracted@startrek.website 14 hours ago
themoken@startrek.website 12 hours ago
Yeah, I think this one didn’t really come together as well as it could have. Should have focused on the Sam story more and do more to make it feel like she was in real danger. When she was dead I involuntarily yelled “yeah right!”. Lo and behold it lasted like under a minute. The drama and Caleb/Tarima story could have more easily been cut short without losing anything.
Probably one of the worst eps, but I’m happy to say that’s actually a pretty high bar for this show so far and this is more meh than truly bad (here I’m flashing back to like 20 different Discovery episodes where the episode ended and I was tearing my hair out over how stupid they were - that’s the real trauma here)
Also happy to speculate that, with two episodes left, the pendulum seems likely to swing back to excitement next week and I’m here for it.
Klanky@sopuli.xyz 55 minutes ago
Maybe it was because of Mary Wiseman, but for some reason this felt like a Discovery episode, and not in a good way. I liked Tilly on Discovery, but here she just annoyed me for some reason, felt very smug in all her dealings with the cadets.
Klanky@sopuli.xyz 57 minutes ago
I agree that I felt this was the weakest. This felt like actors writing an episode for actors about the healing power of ACTING! Just…calm down and see a real mental health professional.
Cableb and Tarima have negative chemistry, and I wish the writers would stop trying to make that happen, but here we are.
The stuff with SAM was great and should have been the A-plot.
Overall I’m still liking the show but this was definitely one of the weakest so far.
ValueSubtracted@startrek.website 38 minutes ago
I think it’s clear that, much like Nog in “It’s Only A Paper Moon”, the cadets (particularly Tarima) have not been receptive to conventional therapy, which is extremely predictive of whether said therapy will be effective.
Klanky@sopuli.xyz 36 minutes ago
Fair point. I’m sure my thoughts on this episode will soften over time (they always do), but I think my dislike of both the character of Tarima and the way she is played are making it hard for me to be invested in her story lines.
ValueSubtracted@startrek.website 27 minutes ago
I didn’t expect this one to be quite as divisive as it seems to be!
But yeah, I can see why it would clang if you’re not feeling the characters involved. I’m sort of in the same space with Darem right now.
Tarima is messy, but it’s a very familiar kind of messy to me. Zoe Steiner is definitely taking a unique approach to the character, but it’s mostly working for me. I thought her scene with Caleb in the botanical lab was quite well done, and not an easy task.