PurpleTentacle

Oh Jack Whitehall, buddy, no. I usually don't hear bad accents, since I'm german and so my tolerance is quite high (germans speaking english is rough), but dudes american accent was attrocious.

I think Edgar was looking for a replacement for himself, to be able to spend more time with Grace and that's also why Sebastian said he'd lose a business partner. Yep. I think they didn't quite nail it, but to be fair, that style is really hard to get right. Basically the only way would have been to get Wes Anderson to guest direct.

This is what I'd like to see from a prequel. Expanding on established events without stomping all over canon. Great episode. Sad that this show doesn't do this kind of thing more often.

Fridge moment: Where was the Skrull compound supposed to be? I thought the whole time it was supposed to be Chernobyl. But Chernobyl is in Ukrain. How would nuking something in Ukrain lead to war with Russia? Does anybody have an explaination for this? Edit: Episode 1 just says 312km southwest of Moscow. So it must be some fictional nuclear desaster site, as Chernobyl would be ~700km southwest of Moscow. What are the chances these writers wrote this with Chernobyl in mind until somebody pointed out that it isn't in russia and thus the whole thing wouldn't work?

That was the explaination given in a previous episode, yes. The president had ordered a nuclear strike against the Skrull compound, which is pretty ridiculous, but it was explained, but I admit, barely. That's what Fury and an Sonya were at the hospital to prevent. Throw in Sonya into the mix and you've got something great. I thought he could barely walk tbecause his muscles had atrophied. That's why G'iah said something like "carefull, you've been here a long time" to him.

That was Fury talking to his wife. Sonya didn't mention anything about the Kree.

All the show name parodies, for those who are interested:

Yeah, this was a pretty good opener for the new season. Every time they come back they go a little (lot) meta, so it's tradition. Anybody remember the Box Network and the executive powder?

Did I miss something? Where was that said?

Well this was a nothingburger of a show. Guess Olivia Colman was fun as always. But on the other hand Maria Hill is dead, so boo. Other than that nothing of worth happened. Yeah, I was 99% sure the whole time that it was G'iah and not Fury in that reactor control room. Garvik is a massive idiot. Also what were those pills fake Fury supposedly was trying to take but then "accidentally" threw down the drain? Was that some magic Marvel stuff? I thought last episode they said something about iodine pills. Because let me tell you, that's not how iodine pills work. They only protect you from thyroid cancer and you have to take them before being exposed to Iodine-131. They saturate your thyroid and thus prevent radioactive Iodine-131 entiring it. That protection also lasts quite a while. What fake Fury displayed seemed like you standard radiation poisoning. Iodine pills do nothing against that. That they got Captain Marvel's powers also made no sense. She's not a mutant or alien. Her powers don't come from her DNA. They come from the tesseract. So is G'iah now the most powerfull superhero in the universe, forever? I can't wait for that to never come up again. That whole back-and-forth with Sckrull-Rodney was so unnecessary. It could have been solved with: "Okay Mr. President, calm down. I'm going to shoot him in the hand and then you'll see that what we are saying is true. If I'm wrong you can still shoot me." I miss good Marvel.

Edit: Somehow I watched the wrong episode. No wonder it seemed like something I'd seen before. Ignore what I said.

That is a matter of taste and valid, but very different from your original criticism. I maybe would have had a problem with it if SNW was more serious Scifi, even on the level of the TNG era, but it's not and instead pretty silly in its own right. That seems like a very weird take. Boimler and Mariner were fangirling throughout the whole episode. I think the takeaway for them was that their elders were very much as great as they thought. That knowledge from the future is superiour to knowledge from the past is not some political take. It's just how time and progress work. Unless knowledge is lost, future knowledge will always trump past knowledge, because there is just more of it and it gives a more complete picture. I'm pretty sure we know more about the universe now than people knew a 100 years ago. Doesn't make them stupid or bad. Just means they didn't know as much.

I'm pretty sure Voyager and DS9 never moved the eugenic wars, but had their time travel set specifically around it. DS9's past tense was set in 2024, long after the eugenic wars, two years before world war three. If you mean that episode. I don't remember anything else set in that time period of the top of my head. Can you give me examples where DS9 and Voyager contradicted previously established canon regarding the eugenics wars? Picard I'd like to forget. It is a stupid show written by morons. But you could still square that time travel as taking place after the eugenics wars. There they never established that the eugenics wars hadn't happened and the world is pretty sufficiently fucked up. In fact at the end of season two Soong brings up an old file on his computer that suggest they already happened. Because TV. It has to be a sufficiantly significant moment. We know nobody dies, except maybe Una (but that seems unlikely after this episode, with nobody blurting it out), so that is the only significant moment to mine that is left.

That's what you took away from this? Weird. It was pretty clear that both generations learned things from each other in this episode. Also Boimler and Mariner are more like Gen Omega or something and Tawny Newsome and Jack Quaid are Gen Y (Newsome is almost X, just squeezing in for Y under the wire) Normally I'd agree, but this seemed fine. Still two stories in one season might have been a bit much... I could have done without the first one, that moved the eugenics wars by 40 years without any other consequences to the timeline, somehow, because the production was too lazy to set it in the 90s... I assume it's going to be Pike's accident. Spock said in this episode that he couldn't and wouldn't change course because of the future knowledge Boimler gave him, because that would change the future and maybe lead to an outcome where all the great things that future Spock does would never come to pass. It was only logical to stay the course. The SNW writers are obsessed with The Cage. They probably watched it 200 times to prepare (but only glanced at the rest of TOS once), so this is their explaination of why Spock is smiling in it:

Well I loved this. I was prepared for Boimler and Mariner to be wildly out of character, but I guess they brought on the lower decks writers, because they were pretty much spot on. The whole thing was very enjoyable through and through. I think this is where SNW is best at, if they don't try to tackle big things and themes, but have small, contaiend stories. Because with a prequel, tackling big things can never work. Because we know how they turn out in the end and most of the time the writers aren't good enough to weave them in seemlessly. So I guess with the ending this has always happened. Boimler's and Mariner's scheme turned these Orion pirates into Orion scientists, who discovered the portal, in the eyes of history. I love that for Tendi. This story might have even inspired her to become a scientist in the first place.

I mean the conceit of the show is that all this is a documentary we are seeing. So the footage must have made it back to earth. And yeah GoPros can't transmit, that's why I said the SD card must have survived somehow. If we could still hear Nando would depend how high up he really was. There is still atmosphere quite a ways up and he did start burning almost immediatly when starting to fall, suggesting he must have still been in atmosphere (though he must be really, really heavy to have burned at all). Also Vampires don't breathe, so how do they talk in the first place, if they don't move air past their vocal cords? Maybe it's some kind of magic the camera can pick up?

Yeah that was also on Streaming. I doubt Kayvan Novak was fully naked. They usually have modesty socks for that (yes they are really called that). There is that famous story where Chris Pratt took his off on Park and Rec to get a more genuine reaction out of Amy Poehler and then got a strongly worded letter form the studio.

All the looks during the planing of the pride parade were priceless. It's always so cute when Nandor gets jelous of Guillermo doing something with somebody else. That guy is really clueless about his own feelings. How did the film team get the gopro footage? Well I guess, maybe the SD cards survived reentry, somehow. Nandor sure looks good naked though. That sure was something. I think Nadia in a doll body hitting Lazlo with a whip is what tied it all together. It's really anything that they have to count. Folklore likely originating from people with OCD. Grain, or more modern, rice is just a convenient way to distract a vampire, since you can have lots of it in a small space. Dumping out a bag will give you hours to get away. I actually thought it was going to be the same old, same old, we know from body swap stories like this and at first it was, but then they brought Colin Robinson into the mix and boy was that a hoot. These writers man, they always surprise me. If all dramas had writers half as good as these comedy writer, we'd have a lot less duds on TV right now.

I think you mean the opening theme that nBSG used throughout the show outside of the US? Yeah that one was amazing.

Opening is still baller (marry me, Bear!). Rest of the episode, still pretty bad. They really went with the 138 year timejump, huh? So every bit of character development last season we saw with Dawn and Day, pretty much useless and forgotten. No fallout of Demerzel breaking the first law of robotics and killing a Cleon. No nothing. Great. That was just the only interesting storyline in the whole show. Now we are stuck with Gaal and Salvor, I guess... Demerzel and Cleon having sex was extremely uncomfortable, considering the relationship we've seen her have with other Cleons and as Dusk pointed out, she having changed his diapers. I'm wondering why she is playing him. She can't really be into that. That Gaal made a copy of Hary is a retcon, right? We got no indication that she made one last season. So are there three copies around now, one on Terminus, one on Helicon and one with Gaal? Or did the second foundation not happen, because of the stunt that Gaal pulled? Is that why the timeline is so fucked? Also how does the dodecahedron know that the timeline didn't turn out as expected? Does it monitor the entire galaxy? How does it do that? I guess that retcon gives them opportunity to have more of Jared Harris in this season. So that's a plus. That cliffhanger was kind of ridiculous though. We saw into Hari's mind and what he thinks. So that "reckoning" will be him apologising to Gaal for not including her in the plan. Of course Empire ships found the 138 year old message exactly now, when Gaal and Salvor woke up and that will lead to the second crisis. What a coincidence! That the Epire scientists seem to have exact genetic code of Cleon 1, to compare the current Cleon's code to, so they can determine that it has been altered, but still can't clone a perfect copy from that, still makes no sense. And now we are told the genetics keep drifting further? How, they aren't cloned from each other, they are cloned from one source. Overall very "meh" episode. Not as bad as the later episodes of last season, but give it time...

And Gizmo gave a very pointed look to the camera at that point.

"If there is anyone who can get to the bottom of this kind of thing it's me. Why? because I'm the king of bottoms!" That slayed me for a good minute. God I missed this show.

I assume the white chocolate was poisoned. It's Roxanne's favourite. Edgar said he didn't like it, but there is probably going to be something about him trying to leave his comfort zone, trying it out and accidentally getting poisoned. So that would mean somebody tried to poison Roxanne. Why would they want to do that? Maybe because they knew edger would be distraught and in the confusion try to steal the crypto keys? Maybe that theory is a bit out there, but I don't think it's too out there for this show.

Sam Richardson lost some weight. I usually like my men a bit more robust, but it looks good on him. I'm glad this show is back. Hadn't kept up with it so this was a welcome surprise, when it showed up. It could have just as well been a limited series. But I think there is a lot of potential for multiple seasons. If we don't want to go the Jessica Fletcher route of commiting murder and framing other people for it stumbeling into a new murder every season, I could see Danner and Aniq just opening a detective agency. The murder has clearly something to do with the crypto keys. You don't build glowy, massive, unrealistic props for nothing. Also white chocolate is made from cocoa beans. So Edgar and Aniq are full of it and talking out of their behinds. Yeah or maybe some pills to loosen him up a bit. He probably wasn't just drunk at the devil-speach. Anyway, her being the murderer would be too obvious and I don't think this will be a double twist.

That's done with a long focal lens that makes distant objects look much, much bigger (and sometimes just straight up photoshop). It wouldn't look like that in person. I mean you can just look up at night to see the difference. I don't think we are meant to assume that we are seeing episodes of Star Trek through such a lens. https://inlightofnature.com/photos-of-a-large-moon/