R2D2K9's reviews

Bouncy, good fun. Comedy is always hard to comment on since it is so personal, but for me it worked. I feel this is going to be great addition to the Star Trek franchise. Not everything is going to be perfect, but after just two episodes I am invested in the characters. Especially Rutherford (engineer, cyborg eye) is so kind and lovely.

Discovery got a lot of negative feedback, much of it relating to characters (especially michael) being unlikeable. Here I feel already invested in them, and slightly in love. Let's see where this goes!

Some things in the very beginning made me afraid too much time was going to be put on stuff like "get from A to B", but boy was I wrong. The pacing was great, no unnecessary roaming around or too many fights. Instead we put the screen time on got the good stuff: discussions, deep questions, emotions. It all felt right, nothing was forced in and while I especially enjoyed that, there was some great action, suspence and world-building.

Was this episode a bit preachy with its message? Yes. Does it make this episode horrible? No.

Giving this episode 1-4 is just dishonest. An episode is the sum of many parts, and many parts were ok here. Sadly nothing was very exceptional or great, and while the preachyness (good message, clumsy execution) draws down on the total points I give it, there was still a lot of OK things. (interesting characters, nice locations/set design, new aliens).

This is a crazy episode. As a part of a series it brings down the quality. It is sexist, weird, illogical and both plot and character development go in the wrong direction. 5/10

But I happen to like "so bad it's good" episodes, so on it's own it is funny. Every now and then you start to think "Maybe this is going to get more normal" and suddenly something weird happens again. We already know the mirror universe exists, maybe this is another parallel universe? 8/10

I can't lie, it is entertaining to watch this murder mystery. The production values and acting is still spot on. I want to know who did it. And I like seeing how the characters lives continue after last season, which was so heavy and dark.

But the story... Yeah, don't think too much about it. I feel it gives sometimes the wrong messages, and at times it is just illogical or goes against the characters personalities. There are multiple times where I think you could say "that's not what an actual person would do" and there are numerous coincidences. X just happens to do Y while Z sees them, X just happens to do Y when the murder happens and X could tell them where when bruce was murdered but just doesn't. Everything just happens to advance the plot.

I guess we should have learned more about these characters without a murder mystery. The format just doesn't work that well.

Great series, reliable information. 10-15min screen time per week of war means there is time for smaller details that are important and interesting but not often mentioned in books or school. This show also gives a great insight into how long different campaigns, battles etc were. If you only read about them, you understand it but when you watch these it really hits you how many weeks this or that horrible thing lasted, and how each week there is a more depressing number of wounded and dead.

Having seen the first half of the first season, I am really happy about this. I feel the totality of what I've seen is good - animation, storytelling, visuals, dialogue. It respects the work of Tove Jansson and hits the nostalgic buttons by not being too different from the japanese series, but still it is not a copy but its own version of the stories. I feel this is great for kids, and most of the episodes are great to watch as an adult too. This will never be the same as the original series, but I think expecting that wouldn't be reasonable.

I continue to enjoy this, money well spent by YLE who distributes it in Finland. Animation is great, and you can see that they have looked at the original drawings of Jansson. This is the first part in a longer story (2-3 episodes, I would assume) but I feel they made it good on its own too, not a huge cliffhanger. I'm eager to see where they take this.

Having just read the story this is based on, I feel they did it justice. Sure minor things are changed, but the message and the feel is the same. We are continuing on the same good road episode 2 started: beautiful animation and scenery, good handling of plot and dialogue.

The first episode felt ok, this one is great! We get better animation, and the plot is less "jumping around in a hurry". I feel this respects Tove Jansson and has many things in common with the japanese tv series so it hits many of those nostalgia buttons too. If the whole series is like this episode we have nothing to worry about. The animation is really nice, the water looks really great and the snowy forrest is beautiful. I've seen the swedish dubbed version, which gets a minus point for the english music, which is not dubbed and kind of sticks out. But that might just be because of my nostalgia.

Nice movie, didn't know it was a remake of a italian movie from 2016. Made me think of "what's in a name" from 2012, a dinner party that starts off innocent but ends up in revealing secrets. Because of the similarities I felt I had seen this before, and it was better executed in "what's in a name". They were however differnet enough for me to enjoy both, but I feel I will be revisiting "whats in a name" but not this one. Anyway, good but not great.

Good idea, but the execution was kind of boring. I made many "wrong" choices so I was looped back so I could make the right choice. I feel I would prefer having less choices, but having them actually work - as in make the movie end instead of looping back to the right track. Some speak about how it was fitting that it looped back, having it reinforce the idea of us not actually having free will in life, but I just found it boring. The characters were not very likable or relatable, but that might just be because of the format. If I am the one making the choices, the writers need to make a character that is fairly neutral so he works with all the choices.

I really liked where this season was going, even though there were some bad episodes. But this last episode was basic. I wouldn't say it was bad, because it wasn't. But it wasn't superb either. Some nice moments, a good plot but somehow lacking just something.

From the very beginning, I've loved Whitakers take on the doctor. The episodes were a bit weak to begin with, felt flat, but this one is one of the better ones and it does feel like doctor who to me. I'm especially happy with the villain, although they were defeated quite quickly. This might had worked better as a twoparter. But in general I'd say it's a good, basic episode. Don't know why people hate it. The comedy wasn't a 10/10, but I still enjoyed it a lot.