We’re trying to rewatch Invasion now that it’s concluded (or cancelled). First season is heavy going, lots of parallel plots that only slowly intertwine if at all, and not necessarily so much happening in every episode.
Next will be a For all mankind rewatch to be fully prepped for the upcoming season 5. Let’s see if we can time it so we can binge the new episodes without a week’s wait in between…
I was disappointed with Invasion because Sam Neill wasn’t a lead. I only got up to the penultimate of season 1.
What am I watching? Well it’s always Star Trek. Other than that, The Office Superfan Episodes. Also started Monsterverse.
I am caught up on invincible and and fallout.
If you haven’t watched knight of the seven kingdoms, I would highly recommend it
Still making my way through Voyager, for the first time.
I tried some time ago ST Prodigy and found too silly, I heard some encouraging comments about it and Im giving it another try. 6 episodes in Im enjoying it more than the last attempt.
It’s aimed at a younger audience but very much the continuation of Admiral Janeway and Starfleet, shame we won’t get a third season
I just watched The Agency on Showtime. It was outstanding, and I didn’t want it to end. I’m also thinking watching classic Doctor Who from the beginning.
watching classic Doctor Who from the beginning
Oh, do it! It’s kind of a slog by modern standards, but once you get into the rhythm of it, you understand why it became such a beloved, classic show. I watched it all a couple of years ago (minus the still image reconstructions), and it was quite rewarding 🙂
Where did you find the earlier series to watch, and how was the quality?
Uh, can I plead the fifth amendment on the “where” even if I’m not a US citizen? 😆
I’ll say it’s DVD quality, though. As in, as good as a '60s through '80s TV episodes will look on DVD… Some of the First and Second Doctor serials are pretty rough!
Yarr matey, you’re amongst friends
im going to be watching tos in about 20 minuts followed by tng.
I can’t see anything through these tears. I’m in SFA withdrawl.
Right? I said it elsewhere, but given the show’s global traction it would make so much sense to produce another Short Treks season to tide us over into season 2.
SFA has a metacritic user score of 1.7 “overwhelming dislike”
Honestly surprised that you would cite such a transparently manipulated crowd-sourced rating.
Especially when the Rotten Tomatoes pro critic score is 88% — far above the ‘review bombed’ audience score.
Also, it seems you’re unaware that the review bombing was so bad that it’s been having a ‘Streisand Effect’ raising the profile of the show.
When a show or movie has a distribution has a stack of 1/10 “worst show ever” votes and a fairly flat distribution otherwise, it’s clearly not showing votes of people who have seen it.
The IMDb profile is particularly revealing. The overall rating of the show is low 4.4, with lots of 1/10s, but the ratings of the actual episodes run from 4.7 to 7.0 with an average for the episodes over 6 — despite some continuing review bombing.
Here’s the obviously review bombed distribution of votes for the show overall.
Here’s the crowdsourced vote distribution for episode 10
The brigading by review bombers who never watched the show but claim they “saw some reviews on YouTube and know all they need to” got so completely out of hand that the people who have done this have made the situation into a pop psychology meme. Psychology Today even wrote a feature article “The Trouble with Review Bombing” about it.
I also note that haverholm has linked the Flix Patrol rankings that show that SFA drew much more audience on platforms other than Paramount+ — which suggests it’s doing its jog in attracting new audiences.
do you have proof of review bombing? your reasoning for it not being actual reviews seems thin at best. who do you think is doing it? and why?
can I also ask why you put weight in IMDb but ignore metacritic? it’s just an aggregation site after all.
rereading you comment it seems that you feel that reviews of the show don’t count unless those people also review each episode individually? I’m not sure why you think that though? most people aren’t going to continue watching a show they don’t like so why would they then continue to review each episode?
edit: spelling and clarity
That distribution of reviews tells the story.
An honest distribution of views of people who had watched at least one entire episode would not rate with 1/10 = the worst show they had ever watched.
Not to mention that there are many people posting in other places that “they don’t need see it to know it’s awful” and that they are “campaigning against it.”
why wouldn’t they? because you’ve decided they wouldn’t? and your other point is apocraphal and just strengthens the fact that lots of people don’t like it
Sample review:
Looks like they let woke write the script and ruin another show. Klingons are so misrepresented it’s sickening I had to turn it off. Klingons are a strong and proud race but you have them be wusses. So wrong!
Strong incel keyboard warrior energy in that “review”.
Yes, the outrage factory has its reach, no doubt.
I can’t find the post right now, but I believe@StillPaisleyCat@startrek.website had a rundown of viewing figures that indicated a rather different result than people downvoting it online.Edit: found the comment thread
I have no evidence to support anything other than that being a great idea
Biding my time until Daredevil: Born Again drops season 2.
And waiting on For All Mankind season 5, but the trailer for it really didn’t do anything for me so I’m not as pumped about its return as I’ve been in prior years.
probably some star trek
If there’s no new Trek, that means watching old Trek, right?
Trying to finish my full in-universe chronological franchise re-watch for the 60th anniversary, which means an average of maybe 75 minutes of watching Trek per day through September 8 if I want to get it to line up. I started back in April 2024, but there’s a lot of Trek out there, and I’m already falling behind. (Ideally it would’ve been 58 minutes per day. This includes watching some episodes multiple times if they take place in multiple time periods.)
For what it’s worth, we’ll arguably get some new Trek soon whenever the “season finale” of Scouts comes out. 😂 Only one episode left if they don’t get renewed.
Wow, “full in-universe chronological franchise re-watch”? I’d need a spreadsheet for that, and at that point it’d feel like work more than pleasure 😆 So do time travel episodes like “Time’s arrow” and “Past tense” enter first according to year, then I guess The voyage home, First contact and all of Enterprise?
Basically. I have a spreadsheet with 1,300 watch items. Here are the first 10:
All Our Yesterdays The Inner Light Time’s Arrow Time’s Arrow, Part II The City on the Edge of Forever Storm Front Storm Front, Part II Little Green Men Far Beyond the Stars Carbon Creek
It’s been a lot of research and adjusting as I go along. Plus a lot of semi-arbitrary choices between Memory Alpha order, Star Trek Chronology order, etc.
Second for the spreadsheet!
I’d think that time travel episodes should be considered based on what time the crew is coming from, instead of where they go. So Voyage Home is still between STIII and STV, and First Contact is between Generations and Insurrection.
This will lead to minor troubles, mainly with Enterprise, since it has a few references to First Contact and The Tholian Web.
Also there’s that one far future episode of Voyager where a copy of the Doctor has to clear Voyager’s name, which doesnt involve time travel and must therefore be watched between seasons 2 and 3 of Discovery.
Right, so you don’t watch “The trouble with Tribbles” and “Trials and Tribble-ations” one after the other? Because I’m always tempted to 😃
I think tonight is going to be a Tron Legacy kind of night. I have phases where I watch it at least once a week and I think I’m entering one of those phases now.
Your comment reminded me that I still hadn’t seen Tron: Ares, so I rectified that tonight.
It’s…perfectly fine? It looked cool, it sounded cool, it had a basic plot that worked well enough. That meets the threshold of Tron expectations for me.
I’m glad you finally watched it! Like Legacy, it was a treat to see at the theater for the music alone. I think it was a perfectly serviceable Tron movie and was a natural continuation from where Legacy left off.
It was a bizarre choice to exclude Sam and Quorra, but all things considered they did it pretty well. Shame we will likely never get the continuation that they laid the groundwork for.
Yeah, I was stoked to see that picture that Ares was carrying around at the end of the movie, but then was sad when we all saw how the movie performed. We will get a continuation right after Tron: Uprising season 2… 🙃
The Scrubs revival is surprisingly good, picking up like their hasn’t been a 15-year gap since season 8*.
*Season 9 has been memory-holed.
I’ve only seen the first two episodes of the revival, but agreed. It’s pretty fantastic, has the same feel but also fresh at the same time.
It’s been so long since the last season of the original run (clearly season 8) that instead of hearing Sarah Chalke as Elliott Reed I hear her as Beth
SanchezSmith (who is also a doctor). It makes her and JD’s divorced couple snarking sound like Beth and Jerry .
I’m watching Monarch: Legacy of Monsters (M:LOM) which is in the midst of its second season on AppleTV.
And…my partner finally conceded to give the show a try. So, I’m rewatching season one with them. They say, based on being in the middle of season one that it’s the thing they’re enjoying most on tv just now.
While M:LOM does have creatures and kaiju battles, like the best Star Trek, the show’s emphasis is on its diverse characters and their stories.
The show has all the high quality we’ve come to expect of both AppleTV and Legendary Entertainment (Dune) science fiction productions.
M:LOM is designed as an entry point for those unfamiliar with the Monsterverse continuity or the 70+ year Godzilla franchise more generally. The action shifts back and forth between telling the stories of two generations: one in the mid 2010s and the other in the 1950s. It works well as it comes together at the end of season one.
If the show works for you, please check out our newest community https://startrek.website/c/monsterverse.
I was going to watch it but I got sick of Apple putting a teaser before every other episode I watched like for a whole week and I got sick of it. you just showed to me 40 minutes ago. do you really have to show it to me again? so annoying.
Oh, that’s another show I’m holding out on watching until the current season is finished airing.
I sort of liked the first season despite the heavy “daddy issue” trope. I was hoping that would decrease with that s1 ending,
but
looks like Kurt Russell is still in the cast?
Season two is interesting.
Among other things, the two youngest Randas are in very contrasting places psychologically since Kentaro has had two years between seasons while Cate is dealing with the reality that others have had time to move on psychologically and she has not. (I really like season two Kentaro.)
Interesting. But I’m also curious about the new kaiju you wrote about over in the Godzilla community. Metaphor for manmade climate change, huh?
I don’t know, maybe I’ll give Babylon 5 another watch. It’s been a while.
