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Columbo: Murder, A Self Portrait (1989)
The writer must've thought Columbo was a daytime soap opera instead of a detective show.
Soooo boring compared to older Columbo episodes. An uncharismatic, moderately attractive man who paints subpar paintings somehow has two wives and a mistress who all live with him and somehow is the most famous, most rich artist that even Columbo knows who he is. The vast majority of this episode is what I assume is the writer's wet dream of having three women constantly bicker over him. Fits the bill of daytime soaps. Barely any detective work occurs, everyone including Columbo take turns pleasuring the artist as if he's amazing. The episode was written so cheaply that there isn't even the usual group of police combing over everything as would be in real life. The police work done by Columbo is extremely convoluted. Terrible writing. I hate this episode.
Supernatural: Houses of the Holy (2007)
All Seeing
Wait, so this ghost priest can see wrongs that people have done and are going to do (murders and rape) and instead of convincing him that "Hey instead of us also committing murder, maybe just tell us all the stuff and we'll lock them up. Have you also just appear to the police and stuff." Like with all the actual evil in the universe is this show, it doesn't really make sense to get rid of something that wants to do good. They didnt really know how to end it so they kind of just went with the whole bad guy dies by accident sort of thing. Breeds an unhealthy view in people of the real world. That we don't have to pursue or punish bad people because they will get there own in the end. They also tried to explain as if God exists by the death at the end. I've seen that death in way too many shows and movies for it to have a meaningful impact on me. I think it would have made a much more interesting story if they had to choose whether to send him on and decided not to because he was doing good.
Star Wars: Episode IX - The Rise of Skywalker (2019)
Nice fanfiction
It's nice that they are making fanfiction into feature films. That sounds a bit mean but I just mean that there are a lot of writers out there that could have written at this level or better. It was messy and the action didn't have much weight behind it (story-wise) or even wow factor.
Leviathan (1989)
Not a very good ripoff of the Thing
This movie apes a lot of The Thing, and Alien, without really any of the impact. The acting by many of the actors is stilted and nothing feels very suspenseful, tense, or scary. I feel like they almost had it, it certainly seems like they put in some effort. I just wouldn't put this high on my recommendation list.
Star Trek: The Next Generation: Symbiosis (1988)
Frustrating misunderstanding of the prime directive.
This episode was frustrating because they used the prime directive as a weak plot device to avoid telling an entire planet of people they were being exploited by a people on a different planet. First of all, they technically had space travel and were going to help them fix their ships and everything. Then when they figure out that one of the planets is being exploited they say they can't tell them because it would force "earth morals" or something due to some interpalenetary agreement (which I'm not sure really is the prime directive, but they switch between using this and the prime directive as excuses). The writers felt that it would be interesting to tie the enterprise's hands and have to try to figure out a way to give the Ornarans a shot at figuring it out themselves. I Believe it would be much more interesting if they told them and the Ornarans didn't believe them and they had to find ways to try to prove it to them. That would have been much more interesting. It could have been made to be just as frustrating and dissatisfying of an ending (by having the Ornarans refusing to believe them by the end) if that's what they were going for. It would have made much more logical sense. The whole idea of one planet secretly exploiting another is very interesting and I think they almost made this episode very good. I just haven't seen the prime directive used as anything other than a lazy plot device by this point in the series, so it's rather annoying to have it in there at all.
Star Trek: The Next Generation: Justice (1987)
Prime Directive
Isn't the prime directive violated just by visiting a new species. You're interfering by exposing them to your way of thinking. The people they visit in this episode are not advanced enough to not be affected by this visit, but also by the resolution of this episode. The resolution is also a violation of the prime directive as it could have an effect on the way the species deals with their laws in the future. So far in the series the prime directive isn't stated very clearly and is used as an ill-defined, lazy way of trying to be a roadblock, without actually being so. Also this episode ha some of the simplest views over the issue of capitol punishment, not delving into the complexity of it. The episode seems to say "Hey don't execute someone for accidentally squishing some plants. Absolute, cruel laws are bad. " And that's a very obvious point that isn't very deep compared to the issues science fiction stories can explore.