JJ’s Wonky World Builds: Number 2
It always astonishes me when people defend these world-builds. I understand the appreciation of any art is subjective. We don’t always like the same thing. There are movies I hate that others adore, and vice versa. And I’m truly fine with all that. The difference here is that JJ’s world building is just dumb. It’ll fool you with its sweet visuals if you let it. JJ’s awesome at that. But if you pause to offer any scrutiny, it doesn’t take much to realise how moronic his storytelling is. And that’s not subjective. That’s just a reality. It doesn’t get any stupider than Star Trek Into Darkness (2013), the second Star…
Star Trek: Picard ~ A Season One Review
Thanks to the smouldering unholy shitfest that is Star Trek: Picard (2020 – ), it’s jumped the queue and demanded a blog. Star Trek: Picard is the worst television show I’ve ever seen. The first season just finished with a bang of stupidity. With so much stupidity piled on so much stupidity, you’d think stupidity would grow redundant at some point. Nope. There are apparently always new ways to find it, to use it, to highlight it. I accept storytelling as an artistic form that’s considered subjective. We all have different tastes. We also have different tolerance thresholds. But there’s a realm where we predominantly begin to recognize something as bad.…