rapettif Reviews

Dopesick (2021)

Excellent mini series that reveals some nasty truths

[10/10 · 22 January 2023]

The acting on this series is very good. Really convincing characters. You will empathize with most of the characters. Except for the "monsters", of course, which you'll want to see in jail.

It tells the story in a way that keeps you entertained, and always wanting to know what will happen next.

Very recommended. You will not be disappointed. Well, at least not of the series, but certainly of the public authorities, big businessmen, or the current course of humanity in general.

It is almost impossible to believe that such a thing could have happened, and yet it did.

This series (and others with similar topics) show how hard is to take very wealthy people and organizations to justice, because of their relationship with public authorities, with many of them that end up working for the companies that they were supposed to monitor; or just plainly because of corruption.

And, as horrible as this is, it would be naive to think that the pharmaceutical industry is the only one involved in such practices. If they can have such an influence on government, it reaches a point in which it's not a democracy anymore, but a plutocracy.

I don't know where we will end up if we continue to think that the ultimate goal is to get as much wealth as possible, with absolutely no regard for the others, the environment, the future, or ethics. But it is clear that the current way either turns people into monsters, or allows the monsters to thrive.

She-Hulk: Attorney at Law (2022)

Truly meaningless, irrelevant stuff

[4/10 · 16 October 2022]

After the hideous last episode, i have to put 4 stars to this this show, and that's probably generous. It's like Deadpool done very wrong. A show can be silly, and still tell a story. What She-Hulk does, is to present the audience with a different, quite silly story for every episode, but it also has an overarching plot... that is utterly destroyed by "4th-wall-magic" in the last episode, because it seems that the writers thinked that it would be fun, but it's not. Not in the slightest. Seriously: who does that??? It's crazy. It's like pissing the audience off for no reason. The show was quite bad before that (it's not really fun to be a comedy), and a decent finale could give it a little more value, but what they did managed to ruin it still more. It feels like the silliness is used as an excuse to justify a bad and lazy narrative.

Vinland Saga (2019–2023)

I don't get why all the high reviews

[6/10 · 22 August 2022]

After watching the first season, i must say that this is an anime with a very simple plot, stretched over far too many episodes (24).

Doesn't hold a candle next to Full Metal Alchemist Brotherhood, which has real character development, lots of convincing characters that feel very human; a complex and developing plot; a rich and detailed world. Few, if any FMAB episodes could be said to not introduce any new information.

Vinland saga on the other hand, have lots of episodes that contribute no new meaningful information at all. The first season could last a lot less, and still be perfectly explanained, keeping a much better pace. Lot of characters have no background or development. Characters behave in strange, unconvincing ways. The whole first season doesn't have any kind of sense of direction until Canute is introduced and certain events develop around him.

Ms. Marvel (2022)

Very bad

[3/10 · 22 July 2022]

Even if targeted at teenagers, this is an insult to their intelligence.

You will find several "key points" on the story on this 6 episodes when things happen without any reasonable explanation. At "a mage did it" / "deus ex machina" kind of level.

Even more: the series seemingly ends at the 5th episode. The 6th episode feels like filler, and at the same time like if they suddently realize that everything they did was garbage, and that they need to change everything again (without any decent explanation, of course) to prepare this mess for "the marvels" movie. I wouldn't expect much from that movie, either.

The Book of Boba Fett (2021–2022)

Bad and boring

[4/10 · 22 January 2022]

This show is about Bobba Fett trying to become some sort of crime lord, taking the spot that the death of Jabba the Hutt left empty, with the help of a hot asian and some random people. As mediocre as that sounds, the show is still worse, as after 4 episodes, not much has happened, because of the slow pace, and because of focusing into telling things that don't really matter at all, like how he recovered his ship!

Some people do criticize The Mandalorian because of it's slow pace, but at least what happens in The Mandalorian is important for the SW universe, and the story keeps flowing, and has plenty of action in between. You also get to know more about the Mandalorians, and that's interesting. On the other hand, the story on The Book of Bobba Fett feels forced, slow, of little interest and consequence, and frequently focuses on meaningless stuff. It can use some more action, also.

So far, it looks like a complete waste of time. I don't get why people assigns such a high rating to this show. It doesn't deserves it.

Dirilis: Ertugrul (2014–2019)

Actually, quite good

[8/10 · 14 November 2021]

The series is quite good. Plots make sense most of the time (not all of the time, however), and has some great characters and situations. Fun to watch, but don't look for historical accuracy. Fights are more like turkish fantasy than anything resembling a real confrontation. Like 3 guys vs 20 enemies: "i don't see any problem with that!" :D

It would be even better, if the series was shorter. It has an overwhelming amount of episodes! Like 5 seasons of nearly 90 episodes each. To be honest, after some seasons i started to fast forward some of the "denser parts", like lots of crying or lessons of muslim religion. Some amount of that is enjoyable, but 20 minutes talking about some of the 99 names of allah is a little bit too much.

It has some "Poochie died on the way back to his home planet" moments when some characters just dissapear from season to season, likely because of contract issues with some of the actors, or something like that.

Still, after watching all of the series, you will miss the main characters.

Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (2021)

More Disney than Marvel...

[7/10 · 14 November 2021]

Overall, the movie feels more Disney than Marvel with all the fantasy creatures and the tone.

Does not fix the mandarin. The rings don't do much when compared with the ones in the comics.

The villain feels quite generic and discardable, and the end fight does not feel as important or as hard as it should.

Quite a simple movie. Not really much to make it stand out.

Lucifer (2016–2021)

Spectacular TV show

[10/10 · 12 September 2021]

This series starts somewhat like "bones with the devil", but it's a good start. Then when the series starts adding more and more of "the divine", it keeps getting better and better.

It was a Fox series at the beginning, then Netflix picked it up when Fox decided to cancel it, and made it still a lot better than it was.

Excellent character development. Very credible characters that work really well together.

Amazing series. You won't be dissapointed.

The Spectacular Spider-Man (2008–2009)

Very interesting show until the last handful of episodes

[8/10 · 24 June 2021]

I liked this show. Good animation, even if the drawings look quite childish. Episodes have entertaining plots, up to a handful before the show ended, which seemed too action-focused with simpler plots.

JoJo's Bizarre Adventure (2012– )

Dissapointing

[5/10 · 11 June 2021]

Watched 3 seasons because of some comments that says that it gets better. It doesn't. I don't get why it gets so many good reviews, but if you watch, say, half a season and you don't like it, i bet that you never will.

What you get with this anime are seasons starring descendants of the Joestar family, where they all happen to be nicknamed "jojo" in combination with their names (e.g. Joseph Joestar).

The main characters face several minions (1 or 2 foes at a time, who knows why. Anyone would think it's better to send them all together to slaughter the protagonists), and at least one "boss", in situations where it often seems that the protagonists are doomed to fail, but in the end they usually come out victorious by various tactics that are sometimes ingenious; others so far-fetched, unclear and/or based on previously undisclosed information that the characters themselves or the voice-over explain what just happened (for some strange reason they also go into this kind of explanations when it happens something obvious that need no explanation at all). The series is a constant repetition of that.

The characters are bloated, stereotypical muscular guys with supernatural powers, facing similar enemies, albeit evil ones, of course. The rules that are laid out for how the world of the series works are somewhat vague, at times seeming to be disregarded, and at other times the characters don't seem to realize that there are much easier solutions than the ones they end up taking. Frequently characters are saved by sheer luck, or sometimes because "the protagonist is so cool he can't lose" (in the 3rd season the latter becomes downright ridiculous).

The result is repetitive, with a story lacking depth, disposable enemies, rather vulgar humor, and overall quite mediocre.

The Seven Deadly Sins: Signs of Holy War (2014–2021)

The first seasons do entertain, but do not expect too much from this anime

[5/10 · 10 August 2020]

Clearly not what i would call a good anime, but entertaining... for one or two seasons. Season 4 is a total mess. The plot seems to go nowhere, jumping randomly around fights, with main characters making some really stupid decisions (specially meliodas). New, very poweful characters carelessly introduced (why didn't them appeared before, if the previous fights were that important?). Some ridiculous powers that were invented "on the go", without much thought. Open ending that ends nothing, not even a local season plot, because it seemed to be no season plot at all. Also: is there any reason why Arthur should continue to suck so much after 4 seasons? What about giving some development to that character? Only appears briefly in this season, and you're going to be dissapointed... again. The rating is based on the whole series. Seasons 1 & 2 would have slightly better rating, while season 4 would probably get a 3, or even less. Only good thing about this season, is that you get to know something more about the past of a few of the main characters.

Beastars (2019– )

Surprisingly good

[8/10 · 19 April 2020]

At first, i wasn't drawn to click on the video, but then i came here to watch the ratings, and gave it a chance. Glad i did it.

This series is quite dark. It contains sex and violence, but also love and empathy. I found it a little bit disturbing at first, when i thought "ok... that's violence against females... what exactly does this show propose?". I think that ultimately the message is: "there is violence inside of you, but also love and empathy. Fight the monsters, don't become one".

I didn't like the second season, however. It felt like it lacked direction, and purpose.

Young Justice (2010–2023)

Season 1 & 2 are great. Season 3 is dissapointing.

[9/10 · 19 February 2020]

This is a good example of why you shouldn't cancel a great show like this. And if it does gets cancelled, it would be a good idea to hear the fans, and re-establish it as soon as possible, and with the same writers and overall team. I'll keep the rating, but that's meant just for season 1 & 2. Season 3 would rate much lower.

Titans (I) (2018–2023)

Season 1 showed promise. Season 2 destoyed that promise.

[6/10 · 15 January 2020]

Season 2 is bad. Just tons of internal conflicts, and several characters acting like psychopaths, idiots or some combination of that. In almost all of the season nothing happens at all. Some quite horrible choices made in this season. What a waste!!

Live action is overrated. Instead, go watch Young Justice. The plot is infinitely better than in Titans.

Outlander (2014– )

Boring

[5/10 · 15 September 2019]

Watched 9 episodes, and while the series has good acting and locations, it has a fatal flaw: it's boring. After 9 episodes not much has happened at all. You will see a nurse traveling back in time, almost get raped and/or kidnapped every other episode, mistrusted because she cannot explain where she came from, and in the middle of the struggle between Scotland and England, but don't expect to see much of that struggle in 9 episodes. It has a very slow pacing.

The Protector (2018–2020)

A short story, artificially stretched

[6/10 · 17 August 2019]

After watching the ridiculous decisions in the season 1 final episode, it's clear that they altered it to stretch the show. And season 2 is more stretch. If this were 1 season only, then maybe. Not enough content even for one season, but they could have added content with more flashbacks, and character details about the immortals, the protectors, the faithful, etc.

Dark (2017–2020)

Too slow

[6/10 · 10 August 2019]

The show is too slow. Too many characters, so they must share little screen time. So why would i care about what happens to them? Good job about making all that complicated story to be consistent, however. I'm surprised so many people gave it such a high rating. I wouldn't even finish the whole 1st season if not by that. Felt boring most of the time. I suppose that people just like a lot the mistery and darkness of the series, and to see how miserable is the life of the characters in this small town.

Swamp Thing (2019)

Started good, but then someone hit the "hand brake"

[8/10 · 17 July 2019]

The series starts good, with promise, and the story flows at a more than reasonable pace, but then the story seems to become much slower, and i just seen the 7th episode, and heared it was cancelled and reduced to 10 episodes. There is no way this is going to be a good closure. A pity, really, because it showed a lot of promise, good "atmosphere" and visuals, all the horror show stuff, very unusual. And the war between the green and the rot was something i looked forward to watch.

Cobra Kai: No Mercy (2019) Season 2, Episode 10

The show is really good, but this sesion's finale, does not convince

[5/10 · 11 June 2019]

As the Miyagi do is supposed to be all about balance, and has an only for defense, non-agressive stance, plus the already-stablished personalities of Samantha and Roby, those last two episodes feel weird and unconvincing. Why did they decided to start acting like that? Specially Roby at the end, WTF??? All this to give the students at Cobra Kai an excuse to make a change of sensei. Could be done in other ways, without making you think that two of the main characters have gone crazy, or something like that.

Star Trek: Voyager: Endgame (2001) Season 7, Episode 24

The ending you would expect for this series... not a good one

[3/10 · 21 June 2018]

Ok, so the episode goes like this:

It starts on the Earth, 10 years after the Voyager arrives, which took 23 years. They're home, but not everything is ok, Tuvok has lost his mind (neurodegenerative disease), Chakotay is dead, and so is 7 of 9.

So, future almirant Janeway has a plan: she gets some time-traveling gear, and goes back in time with her shuttle.

Back to the present, Voyager encounters a nebula with a lot of wormholes inside, so they investigate, but there are a lot of Borg nearby, so they go away.

Future Janeway makes them a visit (they play safe by checking that this is for real, and not some impostor), and gives them the tech to protect Voyager from the Borg, and just get into the nebula and take the wormhole home. The Borg simply sit there while they upgrade Voyager, instead of taking the tech for themselves and assimilate the heck out of everyone there, for some reason.

But when they're inside the nebula, they find that the wormholes are part of the Borg transwarp grid, which is composed of 6 "wormhole balls" like this one. So, young Javeway gets indignated with her older self for not telling her, and orders the ship out of the nebula, with the wormhole to get home just in their noses. The crew obeys for some stupid reason. Old Janeway outranks young Janeway after all. I must mention here that Voyager took quite some damage to his new anti-borg shielding, so retreating wasn't the best idea in the world, because there were still a lot of borg cubes in the vecinity, and also because they have anti-borg tech with them and an individual with knowledge from the future which would be a great addition to the Borg.

Also, we get to know that Tuvok already has this sickness, and the only ones that could cure them are other Vulcans from his own family, but there's a time frame to do that, that's why he couldn't be saved in the future, because they took a lot of time to get there.

So, what's the plan now? Young Janeway has her usual delusions of greatness, and now want to take out the whole Borg transwarp grid!!! WTF?!?!? The crew agrees, by saying that that will save a lot of lives (but won't the Borg just rebuild this and then go to destroy the threat of Earth anyways?) . So after discussing some more with old Janeway, they decide to go with a plan that old Janeway discarded for been too risky, but what the hell, her encounter with her young version has grown on her nostalgia, and now she feels like going with this insane plan.

So, Voyager goes for the wormhole at the same time B'Elana is giving birth, because who needs a chief engineer in the middle of a battle with the Borg after all? Had they escaped before, they would be on Earth already, but now she's on labor while all of this transpires. The plan is to take the grid out from the inside by firing their new torpedoes, but for that to work, Old Janeway went to her shuttle before, and uses some deus ex machina chip in her brain to communicate with the Borg queen, offering her to give her the way to resist the new torpedoes, if she promises to get Voyager safe to Earth, and that she don't try to find her, because she's using new tech and she wont be able to do it. The queen finds old Janeway anyways, and begins to assimilate her, but that was the plan all along, as she carries some anti-borg neuro-tech virus that destroys even the queen and everything borg in sight. It's difficult to say for sure, but i think this is supposed to take down the entire borg collective. So they seemed to do what Picard didn't when he refused to commint genocide, even if the Borg are a threat, they're just another species.

At the same time, Voyager was inside the wormhole, and was chased by a Borg sphere. As Voyager was damaged before, now it's in danger. The wormhole exit appears on Earth and Starfleet sounds all alarms, and sends some ships there, fearing a Borg invasion.

The queen says to old Janeway that the sphere will destroy Voyager, so her young self will die, won't have a future, and so what old Janeway did won't happen anyways (that's probably the only accurate time-paradox sentence in the whole series).

Voyager is unsure if it can make to the Earth exit, and considers to take an early exit to the Delta Quadrant (but why? the Borg would pursue them anyways), and to prepare to change course, but the borg sphere opens it's bay, and seems ready to engulf Voyager. Next thing we see, is that the sphere arrives at Earth, and Starfleet shoots the hell out of it.

We're with Voyager again, they mention that they're "where they supposed they would be", and after some silly seconds, we realize that Voyager changed course to position to the back of the sphere, and is actually in Earth too.

THE END

A far cry from Deep Space's 9 ending when we get to see what happens with every important character.

And the worst of it, is that as the Borg Queen said, now there's no need for Janeway to go back in time, so this is a paradox, and will unmade itself. But of course this doesn't happen on the series, either because the writers didn't realized it, or they subestimated their audience.

There wasn't any need for all this cheesy ill-executed time travel stuff, not to mention the genocide. Just any difficult to get wormhole with a lot of effort to get access to would do. This series is not quite true to Roddenberry's ideas.

Star Trek: Voyager: Renaissance Man (2001) Season 7, Episode 23

A clear example of how stupid decisions and insubordination are encouraged in voyager

[3/10 · 20 June 2018]

So, you're the doctor, an hologram. You're with the captain in a shuttle, and it's attacked. The captain is held hostage, and they're going to kill her if you don't do what the attackers want (two pathetic aliens). She orders you to not comply, and to inform the crew of their plans. So, what do you do? Exactly the opposite of what your captain ordered you. You attack several of your comrades, eject the core, rendering Voyager defenseless, and then you go to exchange the core for your captain's life, but instead of that, you're taken prisioner also. The only thing that made sense, is that the doctor leaved a secret message with a way to find them, so they manage to rescue them with a shuttle (because Voyager is disabled) and a lot of luck.

All of this could be avoided by simply telling the crew what was happening. They can kill the captain, but then nothing stops the Voyager from turning them into sub-atomical particles, so that would be a really stupid decision to be made by the aliens.

So, what happens after everyone returns to the ship? No effective penalty for the doctor, that's for sure! Even if that's kind of a cout martial kind of behaviour, which endangered the ship and the lives of everyone, but hey! it's Voyager, what did you expected!? Not even restraining of the doc's program, nor disabling the "command mode" which gave him enough security autorization to eject the core!!

So, this episode tells us that the doctor is just another time bomb inside Voyager, waiting to explode at any time. As if the incredibly violent delta quadrant wasn't enough!!

Star Trek: Voyager: Course: Oblivion (1999) Season 5, Episode 17

This episode is very bad

[2/10 · 25 May 2018]

I'll tell you a resume of the episode:

B'elanna and Tom get married, but immediatly we notice there's some weird distorsion on the ship.

They realize it's the new enhanced warp drive (WHAT???) apparently what is causing it, and it's not only affecting the ship, but also the crew, which makes no sense, because they made simulations and it couldn't affect humanoid life. A pity, because the enhanced drive would get them to earth very quick.

B'elanna gets very sick and dies.

Then they realize that they're actually duplicates from the demon planet, made with the silver biomimetic goo from several episodes before, and the ship too, but they don't knew it. They forgot for some reason (??????).

Eventually, everyone is going to die, unless they find another demon planet, or return to their original planet, but it isn't really clear that they would survive, anyways.

The captain still insists into getting everyone to Earth, because she's as stupid as the real captain, so they lose a lot of valuable time that they don't have.

They find a demon class planet along the way to Earth, but faithful to Voyager's style, a ship launchs from the planet warning them that they go away or be destroyed, so they're forced to leave after taking some damage. At this point i must say that the delta quadrant seems like the perfect place to arrive with a fleet of starships carrying Genesis Torpedoes, so you "reset" the entire quadrant of any biological life, because the current ones are just a bunch of aggressive assholes, and idiots. I mean, every single of Voyager's episodes is about finding some idiot that wants to destroy them. Any resemblance with the original Star Trek style is pure coincidence.

When enough people die, including Chakotay, she realizes she's stupid, and decide to get back to the original demon planet, and to build a probe with their logs, and stuff they did, so someone will remember them. The probe is going to be built with real materials they got along the way, because everything else on the ship is really the silver stuff, and it's going to "die".

Everything on the ship is failing.

At this point i thinked that they would launch the probe, with the enhanced warp engine, and Voyager would find it, but the probe fails to launch because of damage on the launching system, and is destroyed.

They detect the real Voyager on their sensors (because space isn't that big anyways ??????), so you think they're going to transfer the data directly to Voyager, but by the time the real ship gets there, there's nothing left of the duplicate ship, but a lot of goo floating on space. They don't even realize the similarity of the compound.

So, absolutely nothing that happens on the episode is worth anything. It was the most useless history they could have made. The sad part is that they lost the opportunity to make the episode worth something. They just needed to get the specs of the enhanced warp drive to the real Voyager. That's important stuff. But no, it got lost. As a sidenote, take notice that the duplicates were quite better than the originals, as the real Voyager didn't get any improved warp drive and they would have reached Earth a lot sooner than the originals. And remember: the real B'elanna couldn't even keep running the transwarp core they stolen from the Borg. It seems like that stuff "depletes", but can't you even replicate it, or analize it??? But hey! who the heck thinks that having a half-klingon engineer (or even character) is a good idea, anyways???