I usually love bad humour. But these Very Short Treks are just terrible.
I do like the TAS animation style though. And that the actual actors are voicing the characters is great too. Everything else ... not so much. Bummer. đ
On brand for me to like this when everyone doesn't, I guess. Everyones complaints are valid though. These are rough. However this dry/brutal type of humor is closer to my personal brand of humor than anything else. Last weeks was awful but this I at least laughed a few times. SNW Enterprise looks beautiful in TAS animation style. The Discovery clip just confused me. It's from the second episode of Season 1 but Saru is wearing his uniform from Season 4 of Discovery. I just... don't get it. That seems like such an insanely weird decision to make.
Totally see why people don't like this. I did. However it does feel like a fanmade shock humor video. The fact this is official is a little odd.
That seems like such an insanely weird decision to make.
It could have also been a mistake. The "Ephraim and Dot" Short Trek made a similar continuity booboo when they gave the TOS-era Enterprise the "NCC 1701-A" naval construction code.
I mean yes, it's dumb, but I didn't really go into these expecting they'd be particularly clever or ground-breaking. This one was silly and I had fun, I look forward to the rest of them.
I think this one is better than the last one, but that's a very low bar to clear. The animation is done well in TAS style. This episode is like a Saturday Night Live skit that falls flat. Not innovative, just tepid. I've now learned to temper my expectations for the rest of the Very Short Treks.
Well, that's oh for two. I don't think this instalment was quite as rough as the first, but it also didn't have Pete Holmes, so it gets points for that alone.
For whatever reason I assumed each of the VSTs would be done by different studios, but this is the same team that worked on the first. I don't have high hopes for the rest.