There are two main plots going on in this episode: "primal urges" and an disintegrating planet. The former has the potential to be super hilarious, while the latter could have had deep emotional impact on the audience. This show has neither.
The CGI looks amazing though.
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First and foremost, Bortus watching porn should never have been the A-story. Period. Instead, most of the airtime was about Bortus watching porn and couples counseling. Only at the very end was it revealed that the porn addiction was related to "About a Girl" (S01E03). By that time I couldn't have cared less about Bortus' psychological trauma because I was already bored to death.
The porn-watching was presented in such seriousness that it was not funny at all, when it should have been the comic relief over the serious business of rescuing a dying civilization which was unfortunately downgraded to a B-story.
And Kelly had to interrupt the captain during first contact with a dying civilization over an open channel arguing about the pronunciation of "Theece" vs "Theeze"? What the heck?
And Bortus couldn't lock the holodeck/simulator's door while having sex with the holograms in it?
And instead of showing families being torn apart over the random draw to select the survivors, heck, maybe even shove in some survivors giving up their tickets to stay behind with their loved ones so as to jerk some cheap tears off the audience, the writers elected to show Bortus and Isaac discussing the merits of random draw vs selecting survivors by merit. The death of 75-30 overly-human-looking-alien survivors have zero emotional impact on me.
I watch science fiction to explore possible futures, alternate realities, things that could only happen on a starship. Watching porn isn't one of those things.
The CGI looks amazing though.
------ Spoiler ahead ------
First and foremost, Bortus watching porn should never have been the A-story. Period. Instead, most of the airtime was about Bortus watching porn and couples counseling. Only at the very end was it revealed that the porn addiction was related to "About a Girl" (S01E03). By that time I couldn't have cared less about Bortus' psychological trauma because I was already bored to death.
The porn-watching was presented in such seriousness that it was not funny at all, when it should have been the comic relief over the serious business of rescuing a dying civilization which was unfortunately downgraded to a B-story.
And Kelly had to interrupt the captain during first contact with a dying civilization over an open channel arguing about the pronunciation of "Theece" vs "Theeze"? What the heck?
And Bortus couldn't lock the holodeck/simulator's door while having sex with the holograms in it?
And instead of showing families being torn apart over the random draw to select the survivors, heck, maybe even shove in some survivors giving up their tickets to stay behind with their loved ones so as to jerk some cheap tears off the audience, the writers elected to show Bortus and Isaac discussing the merits of random draw vs selecting survivors by merit. The death of 75-30 overly-human-looking-alien survivors have zero emotional impact on me.
I watch science fiction to explore possible futures, alternate realities, things that could only happen on a starship. Watching porn isn't one of those things.