Bello-4

So Wednesday the limited series has fallen into the same trap as many other series before it. Namely that the sophomore season isn't near as good as the freshman season. A series whose first season was very well received, the second season has been a bore. Wednesday's something of a celeb as she returns to her boarding school, okay fine, but she seems as estranged from everyone as ever. Where we saw her end the first season with a strong friendship with her ever colorful and ever positive roommate and new best friend Enid, she's acting like she barely knows the girl. Add to that slow and ponderous writing that just trods along like the writers phoned it in and you can join me in falling asleep during the second episode it was so slow and bad. I like Emma Myers and I wanna like Jenna Ortega, but Wednesday needs to get a lot better with the second half of the second season or there won't be a third.

So I'm a big Trek fan, more of a traditionalist Trek fan but I'll dabble in the Abramsverse from time to time (I enjoy Strange New Worlds for instance). But Section 31 as a series or now just a movie begs the question, why??? I kidd you not, I fell asleep during this movie and had to go back and find where I had fallen asleep and continue watching, about the first quarter of the way through. The film has none of the hallmarks of Trek, none of the hallmarks of Section 31 as seen in Deep Space Nine that you understood sometimes you needed to set aside the moral values of Trek and just get your hands dirty to get a job done. Section 31 could've been a movie set in any sci-fi genre, it's a simple action movie or at least it tries to be, that's how disconnected from Trek it is. The characters are simple and unremarkable. We're supposed to believe that the Federation would have had relations with and admitted a microscopic species? Just because you can admit some species doesn't mean you have to. The muscle is comic in his little power suit to the point of being stupid. I adore Kacy Rohl, which is the only reason I even watched this, and while she's wonderful she's wasted in this movie. Lining things up with the timeline of the traditional Trek universe, I believe ST Discovery and what led to the former empress Georgio takes place while Pike is in command of Enterprise which is years before Kirk is in command. So Rohl's character of Rachel Garrett is in her early forties at the time of Yesterday's Enterprise and the Enterprise C, Rohl can play younger but Rachel Garrett shouldn't even be born for several more decades at the time Section 31 should take place. Their ship ultimately is a garbage barge and we're supposed to believe that it can somehow catch the bad guy's ship, sneak up on it undetected and that once it has been detected that the bad guy's ship can't just destroy the garbage barge like you'd swat an insect? Oh and ALL the chemicals and catalysts that Garrett needs to create basically a bomb just happens to be in the garbage contained in the garbage barge? Really? I'm supposed to believe this....well...garbage! This movie was nothing but a disservice to Trek and I can't believe it ever made it past the concept stage.