further Star Trek Discovery episodes; Bablyon Berlin episodes
on Wednesday evening my dad and I watched two more episodes of Star Trek Discovery...
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7 - I was a little surprised this episode didn't contain anything directly referencing Adm. Cornwell's being abducted by Klingons? But then they got back to that in the next episode...! Gotta get a breather in somewhere I guess? Ha ha.
This was a pretty funny episode with Lt. Stamets knowing what Burnham was going to say when the time loop started over (and over and over). My mom (sitting in the same room, but not actually watching) seemed to quite approve of the Al Green song chosen for Burnham and Tyler's romantic scene, ha ha, me too.
8 - Came back to the Klingons and I was pleased by the interesting dynamic that quickly shaped up between Adm. Cornwell and L'Rell (I see a few reviewers felt this was the most compelling segment featuring the Klingons yet...and I definitely agree!).
All the stuff on-planet with the Pahvans and Saru was intriguing and great also. The two different portions of the episode were just better matched in quality this time around, and that's less surprising as far as the Burnham+Tyler+Saru side of things goes, ha ha
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First, look!
The short opening credits sequence I was attempting to describe last time.
...so I'll space it out a few lines
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"No expense was spared!" said my mom after we had both seen the episode with the secret German airbase in Soviet territory.
It was a sad scene at the beginning of this last episode I watched (ep. 13?/can't recall) where Wolter and some other policeman go to the apartment where Jänicke (Rath's assistant) and his parents lived. They keep knocking on the door and no one is responding to it. Fortunately a neighbor pokes her head out at all the noise and directs them to hit a doorbell-like button by the door. "You could pound all day- they're completely deaf. But their son set that up for them."
When Wolter tries the button, it lights up a red bulb inside the kitchen. And now the scene gets kind of sadder/more ominous with the info divulged later in the episode...
So, ugh, back in the first few episodes of the show I had found Bruno Wolter somewhat suspicious, but then I eased off my concerns (in regard to his relationship to the protagonists- he is obviously a kind of corrupt cop, but this is a very noir-ish detective show so big surprise there), but I guess I was right?!
And because Rath swapped out a bullet he feared(?)/knew was his with one Wolter had fired previously (with a third character's gun) now it looks like the same person murdered that gang enforcer and Stephan Jänicke, Rath's (charming, lip-reading) assistant. So Rath and Wolter are kind of at a standoff... Rath knows that Wolter killed Jänicke and Wolter knows Rath killed the big 'Saint Josef' guy.
At the very end of the episode, Charlotte, the deuteragonist (I guess I'd say) is kidnapped into the back of a mysterious vehicle. Wolter had already lied pretty believably (about his not having murdered Jänicke) to Charlotte earlier in the episode, so even though she's now holding onto Jänicke's shorthand notebook, we don't think he's done anything to her- but a man with the Soviet embassy who recognized her at a club in the previous episode may have...!
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It's a very exciting show! I don't think I do it justice, ha ha.
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7 - I was a little surprised this episode didn't contain anything directly referencing Adm. Cornwell's being abducted by Klingons? But then they got back to that in the next episode...! Gotta get a breather in somewhere I guess? Ha ha.
This was a pretty funny episode with Lt. Stamets knowing what Burnham was going to say when the time loop started over (and over and over). My mom (sitting in the same room, but not actually watching) seemed to quite approve of the Al Green song chosen for Burnham and Tyler's romantic scene, ha ha, me too.
8 - Came back to the Klingons and I was pleased by the interesting dynamic that quickly shaped up between Adm. Cornwell and L'Rell (I see a few reviewers felt this was the most compelling segment featuring the Klingons yet...and I definitely agree!).
All the stuff on-planet with the Pahvans and Saru was intriguing and great also. The two different portions of the episode were just better matched in quality this time around, and that's less surprising as far as the Burnham+Tyler+Saru side of things goes, ha ha
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First, look!
Click to viewThe short opening credits sequence I was attempting to describe last time.
...so I'll space it out a few lines
.
.
.
.
.
"No expense was spared!" said my mom after we had both seen the episode with the secret German airbase in Soviet territory.
It was a sad scene at the beginning of this last episode I watched (ep. 13?/can't recall) where Wolter and some other policeman go to the apartment where Jänicke (Rath's assistant) and his parents lived. They keep knocking on the door and no one is responding to it. Fortunately a neighbor pokes her head out at all the noise and directs them to hit a doorbell-like button by the door. "You could pound all day- they're completely deaf. But their son set that up for them."
When Wolter tries the button, it lights up a red bulb inside the kitchen. And now the scene gets kind of sadder/more ominous with the info divulged later in the episode...
So, ugh, back in the first few episodes of the show I had found Bruno Wolter somewhat suspicious, but then I eased off my concerns (in regard to his relationship to the protagonists- he is obviously a kind of corrupt cop, but this is a very noir-ish detective show so big surprise there), but I guess I was right?!
And because Rath swapped out a bullet he feared(?)/knew was his with one Wolter had fired previously (with a third character's gun) now it looks like the same person murdered that gang enforcer and Stephan Jänicke, Rath's (charming, lip-reading) assistant. So Rath and Wolter are kind of at a standoff... Rath knows that Wolter killed Jänicke and Wolter knows Rath killed the big 'Saint Josef' guy.
At the very end of the episode, Charlotte, the deuteragonist (I guess I'd say) is kidnapped into the back of a mysterious vehicle. Wolter had already lied pretty believably (about his not having murdered Jänicke) to Charlotte earlier in the episode, so even though she's now holding onto Jänicke's shorthand notebook, we don't think he's done anything to her- but a man with the Soviet embassy who recognized her at a club in the previous episode may have...!
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It's a very exciting show! I don't think I do it justice, ha ha.