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Okay, then....
My best friend and I had our weekly pizza night, yesterday. Before we started binging Made in Abyss, we gave the first episode of Lower Decks a try.
It’s not funny, but that goes without saying. It got one chuckle out of him. It couldn’t even make me crack a smile.
Leaving aside the lack of comedy, and a long string of desperate references they dropped in the last 30 seconds, and the general incompetence of everyone on screen, there was something that left a bad taste in my mouth.
This is a very cynical, mean spirited show.
My conclusion is all centred around this guy, whose name I can’t even remember, even though he’s meant to be one of the MCs. I’m gonna call him Morty, because that’s who he fucking is:
Everyone shits on this guy. Constantly, repeatedly, and relentlessly. This is because he believes in Star Fleet’s mission, and is doing his best to try and be a worthy officer. He lacks self confidence, but at the same time is earnest in his belief that they’re out here to help people. Everyone around him treats him with contempt at best, and utter disgust at worst. This includes that other MC, who I shall call Black Rick, because that’s who she is. Near the end of the episode she makes him agree with her that she is his moral, physical, intellectual, and just general superior in every way.
Let me just get Black Rick out of the way: she is abusive, violent, unstable, unbearable, and an all-round horrible self-righteous human being.
Also, for those of you who haven’t watched the first episode, the reason she is tolerated is because her mother is the captain of the ship, and her dad is an admiral in Star Fleet. It’s the only explanation I can come up with as to why she’s wearing that uniform. Captain Mom is actively trying to get rid of her, which doesn’t mean a courts martial, or a removal to somewhere else...but transferring her back to Admiral Dad. It’s implied that they have been doing this for years, btw. They both recognize that they’ve failed as parents, but apparently lack the balls to send her to a CO who won’t put up with her bullshit, so they play tennis with the life of their child, and fuck anyone whose life she ruins as collateral.
Any ways, that’s not what bothered me. It was such a little thing, in context of the narrative of the episode, but it annoys me so fucking much.
So, due to ‘shenanigans’, Morty gets his clothes destroyed by the giant spider cow below.
He had his underwear on going in, but they’re ripped off of him as the thing starts fucking with his naked body in its mouth. He begs Black Rick for help, but when the alien farmer tells her it won’t kill him, she just lets it molest him...and it is heavily implied when it spits him out a very long time later, that it sexually assaulted him.
After this they’re driving back, and he’s wearing some shitty farm cloth that was only grudgingly given to him.
He’s still covered in the slimy shit from the mouth of that thing that assaulted him. I know why it’s necessary in the story, as the goop is the cure to the zombie plague (don’t ask)...but why the fuck was he being taken back like that?
For context, he was there because he saw Black Rick stealing supplies (literal spades and hoes, btw). He followed her, and when he found out she was trying to help these farmers, he agreed to help. His being there was her fault. He agreed to help these people.
Yet, after he’s fucked up, and left filthy and naked on the ground, they just send him back with some jokey bit of cloth on him. They wouldn’t even let him clean himself up first. It seems silly focusing on this, and I am amazed at how much it bugs me, but it does. This guy wanted to help, and after he is basically raped doing so, no one would even offer him a pail of water and a cloth to clean himself up before sending him back home...and I am expected to laugh at this.
No. Fuck you, CBS. Fuck you.
My best friend and I had our weekly pizza night, yesterday. Before we started binging Made in Abyss, we gave the first episode of Lower Decks a try.
It’s not funny, but that goes without saying. It got one chuckle out of him. It couldn’t even make me crack a smile.
Leaving aside the lack of comedy, and a long string of desperate references they dropped in the last 30 seconds, and the general incompetence of everyone on screen, there was something that left a bad taste in my mouth.
This is a very cynical, mean spirited show.
My conclusion is all centred around this guy, whose name I can’t even remember, even though he’s meant to be one of the MCs. I’m gonna call him Morty, because that’s who he fucking is:
Everyone shits on this guy. Constantly, repeatedly, and relentlessly. This is because he believes in Star Fleet’s mission, and is doing his best to try and be a worthy officer. He lacks self confidence, but at the same time is earnest in his belief that they’re out here to help people. Everyone around him treats him with contempt at best, and utter disgust at worst. This includes that other MC, who I shall call Black Rick, because that’s who she is. Near the end of the episode she makes him agree with her that she is his moral, physical, intellectual, and just general superior in every way.
Let me just get Black Rick out of the way: she is abusive, violent, unstable, unbearable, and an all-round horrible self-righteous human being.
But she's so WACKY!!!!
Also, for those of you who haven’t watched the first episode, the reason she is tolerated is because her mother is the captain of the ship, and her dad is an admiral in Star Fleet. It’s the only explanation I can come up with as to why she’s wearing that uniform. Captain Mom is actively trying to get rid of her, which doesn’t mean a courts martial, or a removal to somewhere else...but transferring her back to Admiral Dad. It’s implied that they have been doing this for years, btw. They both recognize that they’ve failed as parents, but apparently lack the balls to send her to a CO who won’t put up with her bullshit, so they play tennis with the life of their child, and fuck anyone whose life she ruins as collateral.
Any ways, that’s not what bothered me. It was such a little thing, in context of the narrative of the episode, but it annoys me so fucking much.
So, due to ‘shenanigans’, Morty gets his clothes destroyed by the giant spider cow below.
He had his underwear on going in, but they’re ripped off of him as the thing starts fucking with his naked body in its mouth. He begs Black Rick for help, but when the alien farmer tells her it won’t kill him, she just lets it molest him...and it is heavily implied when it spits him out a very long time later, that it sexually assaulted him.
After this they’re driving back, and he’s wearing some shitty farm cloth that was only grudgingly given to him.
He’s still covered in the slimy shit from the mouth of that thing that assaulted him. I know why it’s necessary in the story, as the goop is the cure to the zombie plague (don’t ask)...but why the fuck was he being taken back like that?
For context, he was there because he saw Black Rick stealing supplies (literal spades and hoes, btw). He followed her, and when he found out she was trying to help these farmers, he agreed to help. His being there was her fault. He agreed to help these people.
Yet, after he’s fucked up, and left filthy and naked on the ground, they just send him back with some jokey bit of cloth on him. They wouldn’t even let him clean himself up first. It seems silly focusing on this, and I am amazed at how much it bugs me, but it does. This guy wanted to help, and after he is basically raped doing so, no one would even offer him a pail of water and a cloth to clean himself up before sending him back home...and I am expected to laugh at this.
No. Fuck you, CBS. Fuck you.
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