Especially because while the soldiers themselves are victims, Danar personally murdered three people on the way out of the Lunar base.Viewers tuning in to watch the new series of Hunted have made the same criticism as they branded a big change to the show a 'joke'. But it gets fucking weird when the former soldiers who are known to violently snap are left heavily armed holding a democratically elected government at gun point while Picard peaces out like this is just some funny “told ya so”. As is, it’s just distracting watching this guy who looks like that Sandler regular be painted as Rambo.Īlso the PTSD angle is interesting. Like, that cliffhanger of him exploding in the teleport beam is really egregious and you probably could’ve just had him kill himself while still getting the tragic message across and having the other prisoners rebel.Īnd in terms of casting, I actually think having more of a cliche muscled warrior would make the subversion of him being the true victim work better. It’s started to feel like the antagonist equivalent of a mary sue. forced himself out of the teleporter beam to somehow end up somewhere else on the ship?). And it was a big miss.Īntagonists generally get a bit more suspension of disbelief when they pull the wool over protagonists eyes, as it’s part of storytelling language.īut the way Danar escapes and runs around the Enterprise reached a complete shattering point for me (I’m not even sure how he. Man, this episode was the first miss of S3 for me. Phasers can do anything! I actually had no problem with him putting them into overload or using them to power transporter circuitry. I'd think if you removed part of your body from the particle stream you'd end up separating it from yourself not blowing out the transporter system. Why can someone actually break out of a transporter beam? Also breaks the episode for me. They would be force fielded to prevent others from beaming away prisoners. Thanks, /u/cavortingwebeasties for explaining this one. Why do we have to drop the force field in the brig to beam Danar out? Are those walls also force field supplemented. Too many plot holes and too many times we have to overlook things simply for the sake of getting a message across. I wanted to like it, but I can't say that I did. There's no way this is going to go well for anyone. The end of this one is highly weird to me because Picard and friends just let a violent (although justifiably so) rebel group take over the government of a planet that is just this side of Federation membership. I'm not saying that it's fair that he was locked up and he is a tragic character, but he's now legitimately a criminal in the eyes of just about any court system I can think of. He is now going to go to prison for three counts of first degree murder. Unfortunately it's way too in-your-face in the episode.ĭanar is a very likeable character and you end up caring about him but the thing is he's no longer just a prisoner for what he is. It's too bad because it's a great social issue to comment on. Riker even chimes in with exactly what we're thinking. I find it hard to believe that he could use a knocked out officer's combadge to order the computer to lower force fields with no voice verification at all for example. The way that Danar keeps giving chase is ridiculously awesome, but too many of the things that he does stretch believability. The City on the Edge of Forever (Sun, May 14).The Conscience of the King (Wed, Apr 12).Where No Man Has Gone Before (Sun, Mar 26).If you have any questions, please visit the link below for some helpful info! So join in and make some new friends as we chat about our shared love of Trek! Talk about what you loved, hated, or found interesting. Here at the Viewing Party we watch two episodes during the week, at our own schedules, then come back and discuss it together.
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