Chaos Theory

Science Besties....I am so going to miss this show. I liked how all the storylines ended. Rutherford got rid of his cybernetics and fell back in love with the Cerritos because of that his human emotions were less clamped down on which means his feelings for Tendi were running rampid. Ransom becoming captain and Freeman ending up on Starbase 80 like her counterpart but not because she made one too many mistakes but because she did good. I really like that beside Freeman leaving there were no real major changes. We still have the group being the group. Becket and Boilmer are still friends and are on opposite sides of now Captain Ransom. The final fight scene where everyone played their parts was really well done. I am going to miss this show but on the bright side the finale was reasonably good and not going to ruin the show for me.

This was never going to be to the level of Dexter at its prime. Very few prequels are. The ones that do manage to be good don't use the lead characters (like Better Call Saul) or do a shit load of retconning (Like Young Sheldon). It looks like Original sin is going with the retconning approach. That being said I like most of the characters. I am enjoying Sarah Michelle Geller and keep thinking that Buffy could so take Dexter in a fight. I do like that the original idea was to send Dexter to med school in the hopes that cutting into bodies would be enough to satisfy is dark passenger but he chose to go into law enforcement and no one though much of it because Harry was such a well liked cop.

Two pip Harry Kimm as the final big bad is such a deep cut ST:Lower Decks thing to do. Damn you Two Pip Kim. Trying to take all the Lower deck Kim’s to a universe where Harry Kim’s can rank up but having the other Kim’s stop him is all kinds of Star Trek idealism. “Welcome back Kim’s” I like the idea that Mariner and Boilmer have a friendship that transcends realities. Engineer Mariner is interesting. Non adventurous until she was. All the other crew members from alternate universes were entertaining.

My mom hated to cook but you know she loved us her kids and came up with a few staple meals. There are a few that would work that don’t take much effort that would work for a large family. Meat Loaf for one. It’s literally a chunk of ground beef with a couple ingredients added to it. I thought everyone had a meatloaf recipe. Mac & Cheese with those little hot dogs cut up in them. Heck even Broccoli and Vermicelli isn’t hard to make.

I’ve seen horror movies that started like this.

The good old days when frantic mothers could use opium and liquor to quiet screaming babies. And you can’t forget “Mothers Little Helpers”

I love how Mariner, T'lyn and Tendi all just assume Boilmer did something to get them trapped but will eventually get his shit together and fix it. Inner Light is considered by many to be TNG's best episode so explaining the plot as "This is starting to look like that time Picard got duped into thinking he was a family man by that probe." was just hilarious because that was the entire plot of the episode. But I also really liked that Mariner's entire storyline was her trying to have an entire lifetime on the planet but failing because she was trying to hard only to find her family in the jail. Tendi trying to out science T'lyn while T'lyn was just trying to spend time with Tendi is such a star fleet problem. The two not being able to communicate until they actually need to is something that actually has happened on many interactions of Star Trek. Poor Snell. There really is usually is some lurker hanging around lurking whenever star fleet goes to a primitive planet.

I would prefer a life goes on approach. They are all still early in their careers so after another “yay we saved the universe” finale they all just go back to their jobs. Maybe flash forward another few years where Boimler gets his first First Officer Job and is horrified but not really that it is under Mariner and Rutherford and Tendi pop up as members of the crew. Then they get their first assignment from Admiral Freeman and off they go to adventure.

Rewatching show because I am bored and need something on my tv while I work. I am still on season 2 but the show is actually pretty decent except for the dumb boring Futz/Olivia stuff. I mean Fitz is the definition of boring white dude. Everyone else during the first two seasons is at least interesting except for the President of The United States who is supposed to be the love of Olivia’s life. Hey maybe her kink is milktoast white guys. Not kink shaming. My favorite to characters are Mellie and Quinn. Good downward spirals are entertaining and Quinn going from innocent pawn to something actually dangerous is at least fascinating to watch. Mellie trying to protect her marriage when she knows her husband doesn’t love her but neither of them can leave is perfectly tragic. I remember this show going off the rails pretty hard but it was actually pretty entertaining until it did.

The cube and orb story was hilariously stupid like a lot of the two races at war being transported together on the Enter….Cerritos. Boilmer and his beard still obsessed with the alternate version of himself. I do like that everyone knows he has that pad and it’s not really a thing. Everyone is just fascinated that it is just a little different. Olly is a slightly more chaotic version of what Mariner was in season one and this episode was a good way to show that although Mariner will always be attracted to chaos she has grown a lot and isn’t the one who ends up in the brig. I am very much going to miss this show. I was initially worried way back at the pilot that it would suffer from alot of things animated series suffer from most notably the lack of cohesive stories and forward momentum from the lower deckers. You know a guy like Boilmer obsessed with ranking up being an ensign forever would have annoyed me. But Lower Decks has allowed all the characters to grow in substantial ways. This is one of the few animated series I actually think could have gone on longer.

I might have said this before but my UO is the first season of any show is never really a good litmus for the show. It is the second season that determines what the show is going to be and if it has the potential to be a long running show or just a flash in the pan.

My guess is the rifts are being started by someone on Star Base 80. Boilmer's mustache watch continues. He is the ultimate star trek fan living in the star trek universe. But Mariner has been happier as of late as well.

You mean that manly hunk smell? It’s a wonder that he could smell Jill coming but then she must smell also. The combination of smells is their love.

The religious types who don’t celebrate holidays tend to view children as “soldiers of god” and therefore they are had solely to boost ranks but like any soldier individually is not really appreciated. These are the mothers who bring their five year olds to anti abortion rallies but wont buy them a birthday president. It is sad. Kids devoid of personality because it is bred out of them from a young age. You see this in most if not all Jill’s kids and what little personality they do have is mean and nasty. But that apparently does glorify god for some reason.

Tendi is back and T'Lyn is comforted to have her back. We continue the mustache watch for Boimler. If this becomes a running gag of the season I am going to really enjoy it. Hi Jennifer. Billup's and his needlessly complicated assumed named, Ransome and Boilmer and their Admiral hunt was fun. Mariner and Jennifer were fun and something that needed to be cleared up and the idea that they had never officially broken up and needed to was part of Marniner's growth as a person and a leader. Having those difficult conversations is something Mariner season 1 wouldn't have been able to do. Plus having Jennifer get reassigned is a good way to write off the character and avoid the "what happened to Jennifer" discussions. Glumpus