Hello friends and welcome to yet another video from my series "Quick thoughts on",
in which I regularly talk about different stories from the Star Trek franchise.
This video will be about episode 8 from the new CBS All Access
show called ... Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum.
And these are my opinions about it.
First of all, I just can't ignore the title.
Who comes up with these titles?
Really, what happened to simple memorable titles which perfectly
define the episode?
This feels like a little child desperately asking for attention.
Come on, can you stop it?
The previous 2 episodes were pretty good, and I could honestly say I liked them, after
I hated most of the previous episodes.
But as soon as I knew that this episode will have the Klingons,
I expected it would probably be much worse.
And I was right.
Don't get me wrong, it's not horrible, but it's not as good as the previous one.
Do you remember the times when Star Trek had scientific advisors who have always tried
to correct the scientific nonsense?
Well this series has space whales and space sonars.
It's really hard to say what this episode is about, because I'm trying to do these videos
without spoilers, because I know that a lot of people
plan to wait until the last episodes, and order CBS
All Access, then binge watch the whole series and get rid of the streaming service, but
I have to tell one thing.
This episode starts with a space battle.
You know, the series is about the war between Klingons and the Federation, so finally
see some space fight.
And it sucks.
It's just a huge mess.
It's something which you would do on the Transformers movies, and not on Star Trek.
It's just visual sensory overload.
Way too many things happen way too quickly and then suddenly they all are sad.
Oh, I guess that one of the Federation ships got destroyed or something?
Hey, Hollywood, less is sometimes more.
Also just looking on the Discovery viewscreen, how do they know what's what just
judging by all of the crap they have on screen?
Don't really know how much can I say without getting into plot details, but this is a story
about Burnham, Ash and Saru.
And I felt I am watching Avatar.
The James Cameron movie.
The worst James Cameron movie I have ever seen.
And that's not a good thing.
The second plot line takes place on the Klingon sarcophagus ship and deals with
the female Klingon and the female admiral.
And I'm not really going further, because "something"
happens.
The good thing however is that this is all a setup for next week's mid-season finale.
So it looks like the next episode will be a huge battle
between the Federation and the Klingons.
So because I promised that these Discovery videos will be very short, this is where I'm
going to end today.
The final thing I want to say about this episode is the numerical rating.
On my scale between 0 and 10 where 0 is absolute garbage, 10 is
a masterpiece and 5 is average, I would give this episode
6 out of 10.
It's definitely above average, but also it's much weaker than the previous episodes.
But of course those were just MY opinions, feel free to write YOUR opinions down in the
comments section, if you enjoyed this video hit that thumbs
up button and feel free to watch any other video on
my channel, right now I'm finishing the video about the original series episode "I, Mudd".
Thank you very much for watching, and see you in my future
videos.
Bye.



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