This post contains spoilers for Star Trek: Lower Decks.
Since its very first episode, Star Trek: Lower Decks has excavated the most embarrassing parts of Star Trek lore, refusing to let even tangential parts of the franchise go forgotten. The Next Generation‘s second-worst enemy race the Pakleds became major antagonists in Lower Decks, and Boimler showed unironic appreciation for a Tom Paris commemorative plate. Heck, even the Space Fun Helmet made a brief appearance.
So it’s no surprise that Lower Decks would eventually get around to one of the great debates in Star Trek history: how do you solve a problem like Tuvix? Directed by Cliff Bole, the Voyager season two episode “Tuvix” used that old Trek standby, a transporter accident, to pose a knotty moral quandary. When an exotic plant disrupts the transporter beam carrying Vulcan security chief Tuvok and Talaxian guide/cook Neelix, the two combine into one being,...
Since its very first episode, Star Trek: Lower Decks has excavated the most embarrassing parts of Star Trek lore, refusing to let even tangential parts of the franchise go forgotten. The Next Generation‘s second-worst enemy race the Pakleds became major antagonists in Lower Decks, and Boimler showed unironic appreciation for a Tom Paris commemorative plate. Heck, even the Space Fun Helmet made a brief appearance.
So it’s no surprise that Lower Decks would eventually get around to one of the great debates in Star Trek history: how do you solve a problem like Tuvix? Directed by Cliff Bole, the Voyager season two episode “Tuvix” used that old Trek standby, a transporter accident, to pose a knotty moral quandary. When an exotic plant disrupts the transporter beam carrying Vulcan security chief Tuvok and Talaxian guide/cook Neelix, the two combine into one being,...
- 9/21/2023
- by Joe George
- Den of Geek
This Ducktales review contains spoilers.
It’s hard for any TV show to surprise me but when they opened that gift and discovered Scrooge was actually delivering coal all this time? I gasped. What A Betrayal. Scrooge, how dare you! But… it made sense.
DuckTales has done a lot of work in growing Scrooge from the person we first met in the premiere who only cared about money. He’s slowly grown to love his extended family and isn’t quite as much of a curmudgeon as he used to be. Still though, just because Scrooge has changed some parts of himself doesn’t mean he’s flawless. There are a lot of ingrained world views that can’t be changed in just a few years.
Scrooge loves to remind us of his impoverished background. That he worked himself up from nothing. It makes for a great “pull yourself up...
It’s hard for any TV show to surprise me but when they opened that gift and discovered Scrooge was actually delivering coal all this time? I gasped. What A Betrayal. Scrooge, how dare you! But… it made sense.
DuckTales has done a lot of work in growing Scrooge from the person we first met in the premiere who only cared about money. He’s slowly grown to love his extended family and isn’t quite as much of a curmudgeon as he used to be. Still though, just because Scrooge has changed some parts of himself doesn’t mean he’s flawless. There are a lot of ingrained world views that can’t be changed in just a few years.
Scrooge loves to remind us of his impoverished background. That he worked himself up from nothing. It makes for a great “pull yourself up...
- 12/1/2020
- by Shamus Kelley
- Den of Geek
You might not have noticed it, but DuckTales is carefully setting up a shockingly nuanced portrayal of how wealth corrupts.
This DuckTales review contains spoilers.
DuckTales Season 2 Episode 3
Glomgold has always been DuckTales' best villain. He’s over the top. He’s outlandish. He’ll cackle over a golf game. Very few series could handle a villain this over the top and not make him a total joke but DuckTales somehow managed it in its first season. He was never exactly a credible threat but he was hilarious and that’s all that was needed.
Here though we’re given an episode that not only makes him a real threat to the family but keeps his comedic side intact. That’s a very fine line to walk. There was a danger in fleshing Glomgold out so much it would make his previous appearances seem incongruous. Here though what we...
This DuckTales review contains spoilers.
DuckTales Season 2 Episode 3
Glomgold has always been DuckTales' best villain. He’s over the top. He’s outlandish. He’ll cackle over a golf game. Very few series could handle a villain this over the top and not make him a total joke but DuckTales somehow managed it in its first season. He was never exactly a credible threat but he was hilarious and that’s all that was needed.
Here though we’re given an episode that not only makes him a real threat to the family but keeps his comedic side intact. That’s a very fine line to walk. There was a danger in fleshing Glomgold out so much it would make his previous appearances seem incongruous. Here though what we...
- 11/4/2018
- Den of Geek
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