Strange New Worlds season 2 - SPOILERS

SNARFZODIACKILLER SEASON 2 REVIEW, EPISODE 5

WHAT WAS THIS? SOMETIMES YOU ARE AT THE SHOW AND THE BAND STOPS THE HARD ROCKING, AND THEY ARE ALL LIKE, WE WANT TO PLAY A SONG FROM OUR NEW ALBUM, AND YOU ARE ALL LIKE, BOO. BUT IN A RESPECTFUL MANNER.

THIS WAS NOT THAT. NO, THIS WAS THE BAND BREAKING OUT A DEEP VAULT SONG. OR A COVER. YOU HEARD ME. AXL GOT UP THERE AND AFTER PLAYING PANAMA CITY, HE WAS LIKE, GUESS WHAT PEOPLE? YOU READY FOR THE GNR VERSION OF CHINA IN YOUR HAND? 'CUZ GNR IS ABOUT TO GO ALL T'PAU ON YOU!

THIS EPISODE HAD EVERYTHING VIEWERS CRAVE. SPOCK STRUGGLING WITH EMOTIONS. UNREQUITED LOVE. PIKE COOKING. REQUITED LOVE. VULCANS BEHAVING LIKE LITTLE BI***ES. CLEVER CUTAWAYS WHEN YOU KNOW SOMEONE IS CURSING. ELECTROLYTES.

MOST IMPORTANTLY, WE GET THE ANSWER TO THE QUESTION WE HAVE ALL ASKED SINCE STAR TREK FIRST STARTED. YES, ALL BEINGS IN SPACE, EXCEPT THE POWERFUL GOD-LIKE SPACE CLOUD BEINGS, ARE HUMANS WITH FUNNY EARS AND FUNNY FOREHEADS. BASICALLY, ALIENS ARE GWAR WITH WORSE PROSTHETICS AND LESS METAL. BUT THE IMPORTANT QUESTION IS- DO ALL ALIENS LOVE BACON?

YES, YES THEY DO. LIKE METAL, BACON IS UNIVERSAL. EVEN IN 2260, WE KNOW THAT ALL OF THE ALIENS OF THE FEDERATION UNITE WITH HUMANS BASED ON A SHARED LOVE OF CRAZY TRAIL (OZZY!) AND BACON. THIS IS WHY THE ROMULANS WILL NEVER DEFEAT US. THE TAL SHAIR MIGHT HAVE TIME TRAVEL, BUT THEY WILL NEVER UNDERSTAND THE SECRET OF BACON.

AND THIS WAS THE EPISODE THAT TAUGHT US ALL THE IMPORTANT LESSONS. VULCANS ARE JERKS. TEA POTS ARE HOT. CHARADES ARE FUN. GOD-LIKE BEINGS ARE LAME, BECAUSE THEY NAME THEMSELVES AFTER COLDPLAY SONGS. #CONSCIOUSLYUNCOUPLEDFROMBADMUSIC

ARE SPACEROSS AND SPACERACHEL TOGETHER? IS THIS FAIR TO T'PRING? T'WUT? SERIOUSLY, T'PRING IS ALL LIKE, IMA PLAY FREEBIRD FOR YOU SPOCK. AND SPOCK IS LIKE, YO, IMA FLY AWAY AND AMOK WITH CHAPEL. #MIXEDEMOTIONS #NOTSUREIFILIFTALIGHTERFORTHIS

WHAT ABOUT MOMMA SPOCK? IS SHE IN LIKE FLYNN ON THIS? MOMMA SPOCK SAW THE GOOGLY EYES SPOCK HAD FOR CHAPEL, AND LEFT SAYING THAT IT ISNT EASY TO BE A HUMAN WHO LOVES A VULCAN? IS MOMMA SPOCK ON #TEAMCHAPEL, OR IS MOMMA SPOCK JUST TIRED OF JERK VULCANS?

AND THE ENDING? ITS LIKE WHEN YOUVE BEEN WATCHING THE WHOLE CINDEREALLA CONCERT, AND THEY LEAVE THE STAGE, AND YOUVE WILLED THEM BACK ON, AND SUDDENLY YOU HEAR THE OPENING OF NOBODYS FOOL. CHILLS.

BUT AS GOOD AS THE SONG FEELS, TRUE FANS KNOW THE LYRICS. SPOCK IS NOT A FOOL. SPOCK IS NOT CHAPELS FOOL. SPOCK IS NOBODYS FOOL.


CHARADES RATING: 23 AND 3/8 EDDIE VAN HALEN GUITAR SOLOS
 

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A fun episode, just filled with the good stuff.


That said, I actually wish they had gone a different direction. We keep getting told that "Vulcan emotions are stronger than humans, and so have to be surpressed". So I wanted to actually see that here. Instead of having "teenage Spock", it would have been more interesting to me to have Spock be human....and make it look easy. He is like "wow, this is all you have....I barely feel anything, its amazing, I can just sit back and enjoy". Show me super chill and relaxed Spock without a care in the world because these emotions are a breeze in comparison.

But then play up the physical side. Spock suddenly finds out he is A LOT weaker. However, let there be a physical challenge, maybe he even considers staying human but then some incident occurs where he feels so powerless and weak compared to normal. etc
 



I thought there was a bit of racial stereotyping going on in that episode, casting Asian actors as Spock's demanding prospective in-laws.
I'm pretty sure they were cast to suit the actress playing their daughter, who was cast in a prior season, and that overbearing in-laws are a cultural universal.

Which is not to say you're wrong, or that specific stereotypes don't, no doubt, exist in some people's minds, just to say that the "trying to make a good impression on the nightmare in-laws" is a comedy of manners stock-plot that plays about like that with every other ethnic combination. If you see specific "Asian" coding in this variation I won't say it's not there, but I will argue that it probably came down more to some writer's specific experience and the general conventions of a stock comedy bit than trying to play to a particular ethnic stereotype.
 
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I'm pretty sure they were cast to suit the actress playing their daughter, who was cast in a prior season, and that overbearing in-laws are a cultural universal.
Seems a pretty dated trope from a White British perspective, since people generally live together for years before getting married, if they bother at all. In-laws don't get much of a say.
 

In-laws don't get much of a say.

Yeah, well, then white British folks have found Nirvana. The rest of the planet still lives in a space in which issues with parental/familial acceptance of marriage partners is a thing.

And, if you have reached that Nirvana... you might want to inform your royal family, because they don't seem to have gotten the memo.
 
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Yeah, well, then white British folks have found Nirvana.

BRITISH PEOPLE DONT DESERVE NIRVANA! KURT GAVE THEM HIS ALL AT GLASTONBURY, AND THEY COULDNT HANDLE THE METAL!!111!!!

INSTEAD, WE JUST HAVE MEMORIES OF A BRIGHT SHINING STAR TAKEN FROM US TOO EARLY.

LIKE HEMMER. #HEMMER4LYFE
 



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