season 1
like a lot of star trek fans, i was pretty skeptical about this show going into it. the animation style screamed “family guy,” and there is quite a bit of rick and morty in the show’s dna. like, for instance, series creator and showrunner mike mcmahan was one of the first writers hired for rick and morty and served as its showrunner for a season.
one thing that did reassure me at the time and made me more willing to give the show the benefit of the doubt is that mcmahan was the self-professed “scifi guy” of the rick and morty crew. considering that the show’s inclusion of actual, interesting scifi concepts was one of the things i did actually like about it when i watched it, that was a promising sign.
anyway, yeah, saying i was “pleasantly surprised” by this show feels like a massive understatement. pleasantly shocked? pleasantly astonished? whatever you want to call it. i held on to a lot of my skepticism early on, but it didn’t take long before i fell head over heels for the show. i distinctly remember turning to my fiancx after one episode and nervously broaching, “soooo… this is actually really good, right? i’m not crazy?” and being relieved that ve was thinking the same thing. i was actually kinda genuinely sad when lower decks passed the baton back to discovery for their third season, though i felt pretty dumb about that when discovery went into beast mode that season.
so, yeah. the animated comedy star trek show is actually extremely good, and clearly made with star trek fans first and foremost in mind. i think what really caught me by surprise was how much heart it has. it tells good stories while also having great jokes basically constantly, and despite the comedic tone it genuinely believes in and cares about its characters.
wait. i've got it. the one sentence i would say to other star trek fans to respond to their (understandable) misgivings. this isn't rick and morty, this is futurama.
the first season was a lot about establishing the show’s identity and getting fans onboard with it, so i probably won’t have as much to say in my episode reviews of this one as i do of other star trek shows. a lot of it was working towards making it the show i described in the preceding paragraphs, and putting all those pieces together and establishing everything took a lot of time. so these will be more like capsules with my rating for the episode attached than actual reviews.
1x01 “second contact”
the only reason this isn’t the best star trek pilot is because we live in a post-strange new worlds world. okay, actually, “emissary” is pretty great, too. i’ll have to see how they stack up against each other when we get to that one. a-rank
1x02 “envoys”
the sequence where rutheford is trying out different departments is rather silly conceptually but i freaking love how supportive and enthusiastic everyone is. i think that really went a long way towards breaking the ice for me. a-rank
1x03 “temporal edict”
mariner and ransom butting heads was actually very well done, and ransom shows that while he might be a himbo and a bit of a gloryhound he does genuinely care. a-rank
1x04 “moist vessel”
mariner hating being promoted and boimler just shaking with rage over the whole thing was the best thing ever. a-rank
1x05 “cupid’s errant arrow”
the best friend and girlfriend both being suspicious of each other and protective of their boy was adorable, and waiting until nearly the end of the episode to reveal that the girlfriend was doing it too and having them bond over it was a great choice. having boimler be the one who had something wrong with him all along was also a nice touch.
also i freaking loved captain freeman finding out that the last domino in the demolition of a moon was that it would inconvenience a rich guy, and she was just immediately like “blow up the damn moon.” like, zero hesitation. that was awesome. a-rank
1x06 “terminal provocations”
cannot believe they added the third chu to make it the chu chu chu dance. incredible. a-rank
1x07 “much ado about boimler”
the show’s creative team is apparently a bit remorseful that they didn’t make it more explicit that mariner and ramsey are exes, and honestly that does make a huge difference for me. like this episode is already super good, but i think if they had been more upfront about that it could’ve pretty easily been the show’s first s-rank. a-rank
1x08 “veritas”
i fucking love this episode it is probably the moment when i relaxed and allowed myself to believe that this show was probably just actually as good as it seemed like it was.
the “trial” is a great framing device, the misunderstandings on top of misunderstandings are hilarious, and i really love how earnestly our main characters gush about how awesome starfleet is even though it’s because of a huge misunderstanding. a-rank
1x09 “crisis point”
mariner forces her friends to participate in a holodeck pastiche of wrath of khan that has a ton of wonderful references to the tos movies, it genuinely gets kinda epic, and although she’s avoiding therapy with the milquetoast ship’s counselor she ends up getting accidentally therapied by the experience. meanwhile, boimler accidentally learns that mariner is the captain’s daughter so that’s obviously gonna be a whole thing. a-rank
1x10 “no small parts”
there are a lot of things to love about this show in general, and this episode in particular, but i think the one i’m going to single out is the first canon appearance of captain william t. riker in command of the u.s.s. titan. i think i shrieked with joy at that the first time i saw this episode. s-rank
s-rank: 1
a-rank: 9
b-rank: 0
c-rank: 0
d-rank: 0
average: 4.1 (a-rank)
season 2
by this point the show has really established itself and can start doing a lot more of the higher-level stuff! it was already doing a lot of this last season, but it wasn’t as much what “jumped out” about each individual episode, it was more like the texture? if that makes sense? so from this point forward, these reviews will start sounding a lot more like my reviews of other star trek series!
2x01 “strange energies”
this isn’t bad by any stretch of the imagination, but it didn’t really do as much for me as the show usually does.
my favorite scenes were definitely the first scene (where mariner is using a holodeck program of an epic escape from a cardassian prison as therapy) and the last one (boimler’s adventures on the titan). the a plot was alright but largely just an exercise in restoring the status quo between mariner and her mother. the b plot between rutherford and tendi absolutely carried the episode imo. b-rank
2x02 “kayshon, his eyes open”
now this is more like it! we get even more of the titan in this episode than in its other two appearances, and obviously i’m always gonna be onboard for more captain riker. but back over on the cerritos, jet is transferred to beta shift and butts heads with mariner. i loved getting some more development for jet, and i really enjoyed their first scene together where they try to one-up each other by repeatedly increasing the intensity of the sonic shower. it was also really great (and really star trekky) seeing them finally bond and work out their differences, especially since the solution ended up being letting rutherford and tendi take charge instead of butting heads with each other!
in a way i was almost sad to see boimler come back and jet get bumped out of the group, but hey, we’ll always have paris. wait, no, that’s the next episode. a-rank
2x03 “we’ll always have tom paris”
excuse me hi i know tendi said being all dommy and having that buff shirtless orion guy kiss her boots made her uncomfy, but if she has any interest in exploring that aspect of her culture in a more enthusiastically consensual context plzplzplz call me, girl.
also them being all worried about breaking dr. t’ana’s libido post and her not caring because she just wanted the box was hilarious, and her being a cat about it is so cute lmao.
boimler being a total dork about voyager was cute, and i love how they keep canonizing the acronyms like “tos” and “voy.” a-rank
2x04 “mugato, gumato”
ferengi with whips. throwing people in cages.
i fucking love rutherford and boimler solving the whole thing by being giant board game nerds. that’s gotta be so satisfying for so many star trek fans. “those two beautiful, nerdy men are negotiating us to safety using the power of math.” ♥♥♥
dr. t’ana aggressively flirting with shaxs was so good! a-rank
2x05 “an embarrassment of dooplers”
i love how the dooplers present basically the same problem as tribbles (and also are deployed as revenge at the end of the episode in a similar way) but with an added element of tng-style diplomacy snafus. rutherford’s tiny cerritos model is awesome and adorable, i love how it played into the larger plot, and i also love how sweet it was when tendi explained to rutherford that the reason he never finished it was so they could keep working on it together. i love their relationship so much!!
i also super appreciate boimler and mariner making progress in their friendship on the honesty front. mariner admitting that she felt abandoned was such a huge breakthrough. though of course it happened during a ridiculous police chase with starfleet security amidst them trying to crash a party. i mean, it’s lower decks. a-rank
2x06 “the spy humongous”
this is one of those episodes where it doesn’t really feel like the a plot and the b plot are on as direct of a collision course as they are, but when they converge it seems pretty obvious in retrospect. boimler falls in with a group of redshirts (command division) who are trying to distinguish themselves from their fellow ensigns by, essentially, refusing to do any real work and carrying themselves like they’re better than everyone. meanwhile, boimler’s friends are assigned one of the most degrading tasks on the ship, essentially space garbage day. hijinx ensue.
the thing is, boimler ends up being placed in a situation where he basically has to degrade himself to help tendi, and the sort of unofficial leader of the redshirts turns his back on him for it, but boimler actually stands up for himself and speaks up in defense of himself and starfleet’s values. it’s a nice spin on the “do you stay true to your loyal, kinda uncool friends or sell them out to get in with the ‘cool’ crowd” plot that every single cartoon is contractually obligated to have in the first couple seasons. and having all the other redshirts fall in with boimler and ransom blow off the unofficial leader guy to tell boimler he did a great job handling the situation with tendi is just icing on the cake.
speaking of tendi, i just freaking love how optimistic and sunny she is. she’s just the best.
meanwhile, all the shit that’s going on with the pakleds is basically the the c plot, but it’s still hilarious and great storytelling. there is so much going on in this episode, but it doesn’t feel overstuffed, it all fits together nicely.
i just really, really love this show, you guys. s-rank
2x07 “where pleasant fountains lie”
boimler using mariner as a pawn to outwit an evil sentient computer (and not being able to tell her what she was doing) was such an incredible moment of growth for him as a character. and this plot was treated as a deadly serious situation in a way that lower decks plots often aren’t. the reveal that boimler was tricking the computer and had used mariner to do so was revealed more or less in the form of a comedic reversal, but this nevertheless got pretty intense up until that point. i was extremely impressed by this.
of a more straightforward comedic note was the plot where chief engineer lt. commander billups’ mother is trying to trick him into losing his virginity so he will be forced by law to become king of his planet. and, to be fair, the two androgynous cuties she's trying to set him up with are quite appealing. faking her own death and the death of one of his crewmates is pretty messed up, though.
speaking of which, i really appreciated how surprisingly gentle and caring dr. t'ana was when telling tendi that rutherford was (they thought) dead. it might not seem like much but little moments like this that reveal that the senior staff actually cares about their junior officers really mean a lot to me on this show. a-rank
2x08 “i, excretus”
as a kid who got a 31 on my act without any prep and wanted to retake it because i knew i could get a 36, i get boimler wanting to rerun that simulation over and over until he got a perfect score. also him getting assimilated was uncomfortably hot.
speaking of hot, mariner's mirror universe simulation was super hot, especially the fact that one of the first things she sees is an officer just literally holding someone in a bondage harness and hood on a leash, and then she overheard rutherford and another officer talking about how horny they get from torturing (and how getting horny makes them want to do more torturing). and we see more kink stuff in the space drunk simulation where a collared and leashed ransom is spanked by another officer. i knew he was a bottom!
i obviously loved all the references to previous star trek shows in the various simulations, even the non-kinky ones. a lot of them were kinky, though. makes you wonder about the show's creative team. (in a good way.)
oh yeah and also freeman and mariner and the rest of the crew working together to show that the cerritos is a good ship with a good crew was awesome. i loved this episode for legitimate reasons, not just horny ones. s-rank
2x09 "wej duj"
following the lower deckers on a vulcan and klingon ship was such a good idea and they pulled it off so well!!! i love t'lyn's extremely chill vulcan version of mariner's rebelliousness and everyone's reactions to it. meanwhile, ma'ah wants to rank up like boimler but approaches it in much more of a klingon fashion and ends up as captain by the end of the episode!
all of this was great, but they also managed to squeeze in a good amount of cerritos stuff including some of their trademark character work and relationship building, and there's a badass space battle with the klingons and pakleds at the end of the episode! this kind of episode is very indicative of a show with a very strong identity, that they're willing to play around with the format like this and have such great success with it. s-rank
2x10 “first first contact”
oh my gosh, i love that sonya gomez made captain!! if you don’t remember her, she’s the junior engineering officer who spilled hot chocolate all over captain picard in “q who” and was clearly set up to be a recurring character, though that sadly didn’t end up panning out. i love that lower decks has so much love for the franchise that it does little things like this that’ll be super meaningful and rewarding to old fans without alienating new fans. and she’s such a good captain, too!! when her ship is in mortal peril she lets the crew absorb the danger for a few moments, and then optimistically announces, “okay, that’s enough existential dread. let’s get back to work.” and if that isn’t starfleet in a nutshell, i don’t know what is. plus her command is an excelsior-class ship! the excelsior is such a freaking pretty starship, i’m always happy to see them.
captain freeman going from excited about her promotion to a more prestigious captaincy to uncomfortable about not being able to bring anyone from the cerritos with her to actually refusing the promotion because “she might not seem like much to you, but this ship is my home” was such a joy to see! though obviously it ends with the shocking reversal of her arrest as the season-ending cliffhanger. hey, a tng-style season-ending cliffhanger! i missed those.
freeman deciding not to leave the cerritos goes along with the more prestigious of the two ships involved in the titular first contact mission being heavily damaged and the cerritos having to figure out how to save it. the way the whole crew comes together to figure out and execute a solution leading to the ridiculous idea of stripping all of the outer hull plating and leading into a frankly pretty awesome action scene is just so awesome. i’ve said it a million times in this review, but i love how capable this show is of genuine star trek action in addition to loving comedy.
we finally cet to see cetacean ops!!! and it was so worth the wait!!! there’s also some really sweet rutherford and tendi moments, with rutherford running into problems with his implant because he’s been storing triple backup copies of all his memories with tendi so he doesn’t lose them again, and lt. commander billups advises him, “son, if you can't keep making new memories, does it matter?” it’s such a touching moment!
speaking of tendi, she’s terrified that she’s going to be fired or transferred off of the cerritos when she overhears a conversation with dr. t’ana and finds she’s been deleted from the medical roster, but it turns out dr. t’ana is actually moving her into senior science officer training!! and then tendi hugs her to express her gratitude, and the grumpy doctor says, “i’m okay with this.” it was so sweet!! it’s been so awesome seeing their relationship develop. s-rank
s-rank: 4
a-rank: 5
b-rank: 1
c-rank: 0
d-rank: 0
average: 4.3 (a-rank)
season 3
3x01 “grounded”
there are not a lot of contexts in which "trust the system" works, but starfleet is definitely one of them. i'm super glad this plot got resolved the way it did, although i do have a few notes which i'll get to in a second. but going into the season i had some trepidation that the whole trial/stealing the cerritos and going rogue thing was going to be much more of a long-term thing. i’m glad this really was more of a tng-style big cliffhanger wraparound type deal.
i loved, loved, loved all the dumb little details of our main lower deckers’ shore leave on earth, like tendi and rutherford eating at sisko’s, or the adorable little bozeman theme park complete with one of those dumb signs saying what the wait time is. also that transporter chief grandpa guy was the fucking best.
if i do have one thing to nitpick, it’s that the more i think about it (and to be honest my boyfriend arrived at this conclusion first), given that lower decks is pretty comfortable being extremely straightforward with its commentary, i would have appreciated if all the "trust the system" stuff had been chased with something like "what do you think this is, 21st century earth?" because while "trust the system" is absolutely, definitely a fair take with starfleet and i'm glad they went in this direction, i really do think it needs that chaser as we sit here in 2022 america.
if this were a 100% for serious star trek series, i would take some exception with the fact that mariner’s father couldn’t offer her anything more concrete than “trust the process.” i think it worked okay given that the show is primarily a comedy series, but i’d be ripping him a new one in this review if this were a more serious show. and i think the story it set up between ransom and mariner is worth the price of admission, and even within the context of this episode i love all of the stuff it led to.
plus, like… this episode honestly had a pretty difficult needle to thread to have the proper balance of seriousness and patented lower decks shenanigans. and i think it kind of nailed it? and allowing it some convenient writing shortcuts to get there honestly seems like a pretty fair tradeoff. a-rank.
3x02 “the least dangerous game”
the main plot with ransom & mariner was great, especially mariner saying “fuck this” and skydiving down to save her friends only to have ransom interrupt her with a transmission saying he was relenting and she was right and then having to get back up to the space elevator only to skydive back down with ransom again. but i really loved boimler being that alien dude’s prey, especially the fact that once boimler agreed to be hunted the alien dude just started referring to him as “prey” as if that was just his name now.
… yes, i thought it was hot. yes, i made cute noises about it.
also i super loved that dumb klingon dungeons & dragons game, and the timing on that was pretty hilarious because i’ve recently gotten back into dungeons & dragons something fierce. also it referenced the star trek: klingon pc game quite a bit, and i freaking love that dumbass fmv game. not as much as the similar star trek: borg, but still quite a bit. b-rank
3x03 “mining the mind’s mines”
not a lot to say about this one. it was just a pretty good episode of lower decks! the show is just really in a groove.
oh i will say that no matter what weak-ass excuses they came up with for how the fantasy brain rock things work, i totally buy that mariner is into the idea of her girlfriend transforming into a werewolf. 100%. totally checks out. b-rank
3x04 “room for growth”
the main plots of the episode were fine. no, i’m underselling it, this was a good episode! not one of the best of the series or anything, but like… it’s lower decks! even a so-so episode of lower decks is great. but as often happens on this show, the real joy of this episode was in the details.
boimler & mariner dunking on the concept of money was the best thing ever, and it was immediately followed by shaxs & t’ana bursting into the scene to have kinky holodeck sex but it quickly devolves into a conversation where shaxs demonstrates extremely good emotional maturity, which come to think of it he also does earlier in the episode, and wow shaxs isn’t even close to my favorite character on the show or anything but he is still just the fucking best. b-rank
3x05 “reflections”
okay like he’s barely even in this episode but shaxs is once again kind of secretly the best thing about it??? what the actual heck??? this is getting scary.
my only real substantive complaint is that tendi kinda disappears for long stretches of it? like the a plot is for sure everything going on with rutherford (we’ll come back to that) and she’s involved in that but not super involved in it? so while mariner & boimler’s side of the story is for sure the b plot, both of them actually end up getting way more screentime than tendi.
idk i know not every character needs to be featured equally at all times, i just think tendi is the character who gets shortchanged the most often out of the four main characters, and it sucks because she could easily be my favorite of the four.
that’s more of a big picture problem, though. and this episode kicks ass. the mariner & boimler plot was funny and gave mariner a chance to flirt with a new lady. (what’s up with her & jennifer though? we haven’t seen her for a few episodes now.) plus ransom being impressed with boimler (while nevertheless throwing him in the brig for starting what was basically a barfight at a job fair) was a lovely character moment.
but this is unquestionably rutherford’s episode. this picks back up on a plot that was hinted at all the way back in the previous season’s finale, when rutherford sees a flash of a memory implying his implant had more sinister origins than we have thus far had reason to believe. while there are certainly parts of this plot that are a lot of fun, it’s one of the most serious plots the show has attempted so far and i have to say it pulled it off amazingly. the moment where rutherford reveals that his “secret weapon” is his friends almost broke me. he is just so freaking good.
this is one of those episodes that just really encapsulates what makes lower decks on the whole such a great show. it does a lot of things, and does all of them fantastically well. i haven’t been among those bemoaning the fact that stretches of this season have felt like the show was on cruise control, because frankly this show has more than enough going for it to keep casually churning out great episodes even when it’s in that mode, but it’s still undeniably nice to see the show challenging itself again. b-rank
3x06 “hear all, trust nothing”
wow it almost felt like the writers read my review of the last episode because this episode has tendi kick all of the ass and the b plot is literally all about beckett & jennifer.
i somehow missed the memo that we were getting a deep space nine episode this season, so i actually gasped with joy when it first appeared on the screen. they did a lot of cool little things with all the characters, too! shaxs competing with kira about who had saved the other’s life more but in reverse of the way those things usually go was priceless. and i loved everyone being excited tourists.
seriously though, this episode ruled. y’all can stop writing your thinkpieces about how the show has lost its way now. (i wasn’t reading any of them anyway.) s-rank
3x07 “a mathematically perfect redemption”
peanut hamper is the fucking worst and i’m really excited that they might be setting her up with a villain arc? this episode took me from glad she was getting her comeuppance to angry that she was immediately getting a redemption arc to happy she was getting a redemption arc to angry that her redemption arc was all fake and omfg she’s just the fucking worst. the writing on this episode was just fantastic.
also those bird people are fucking hot, holy shit. shout-out to all the furries who were clearly involved in creating them. a-rank
3x08 “crisis point 2: paradoxus”
tendi would make such a good captain omg!! what a great direction for her character!! and sulu’s appearance was just wonderful. i was making some rather annoyed noises when it was teased that kirk was going to be the one to help boimler out of his tailspin, so seeing the guy shatner probably butted heads with the most other than the unfortunately extremely unavailable leonard nimoy (rip) was a relief and more than a little cathartic.
i fucking hate section 31 and i kind of wish we weren’t going to have to have them involved in this show at all because i kind of prefer pretending they don’t exist at all because they’re just a highly un-star trekky concept, but i’m glad it seems like they’re going to be unambiguously the bad guys so that’s something at least? and i trust this show a lot. it’s also cool that they aren’t just going to drop the whole boimler transporter clone angle. b-rank
3x09 “trusted sources”
well, damn. i didn’t think i was going to have to bust out a c-rank for this show anytime soon, but here we are. this is… pretty easily my least favorite lower decks episode so far. and it’s not particularly close.
the dialectic at the heart of this show is that between a loving parody and a show that actually? largely takes its characters, relationships, and feelings pretty seriously. it’s in that space between that the show really lives, and it makes it look so effortless that it isn’t until the whole thing tips over that you remember oh wait, that kind of balancing act is actually pretty fucking hard!
this episode turns completely on taking what’s usually an aspect of the show’s humor (captain freeman being embarrassed by the crew) and using it to drive the drama of the episode. characters are then pushed to lengths of irreperable interpersonal conflict that don’t feel justified by this episode or anything that has come before.
also, i’m sorry? i just hate the whole starbase 80 part of this. it feels mean-spirited, possibly ableist?, and is just pretty far outside of the line for a show that at its best usually takes the right things seriously. starfleet just… wouldn’t have a facility that poorly-run or poorly-equipped? it makes absolutely zero sense.
and the whole crew except for beta shift, including her girlfriend who we just recently went out of our way to establish really “gets” her, immediately turning on mariner is just ridiculous. it makes the whole thing feel really forced.
this episode really left a bad taste in my mouth. i really hope it’s an isolated incident, because what i really didn’t like about this episode is that it felt like it lacked an understanding of the show’s identity, and above all that’s the thing i truly cannot abide. c-rank
3x10 “the stars at night”
this is one of those where i like the last… two-thirds or so? probably? of the episode (i haven’t done the math or anything, but that’s what it feels like at least) but i just thoroughly hate how they got there. and i don’t just mean how they got there w/r/t the previous episode, but also all the extra setup this episode does to eventually at least end up in a good, star trekky kinda place.
look. starfleet officers, or even groups of starfleet officers or hell entire departments of starfleet, are allowed to not act like starfleet. that can be good drama if it’s used to reinforce our understanding of the federation’s values. that kind of institutional conflict is going to happen even in the most principled, committed socialist states. we’ve seen it play out in real life. the problem is when starfleet doesn’t act like starfleet because it’s convenient. when it isn’t about that, when it doesn’t ultimately reinforce our understanding of what starfleet is and why it’s important. it just takes away from what’s, for me, one of the most important parts of star trek’s specialness.
or maybe i’m just mad because this is exactly the kind of thing i was braced for when this series began, but it showed us all that it wasn’t going to be that kind of show, and then it just randomly decided to be exactly that show for an episode and a half.
look, ultimately if this is an isolated incident, no harm done. and i’m going to choose to proceed with that assumption. because at the end of the day, i just don’t want to be sitting here bracing for this show to be bad, because it’s been such a wonderful surprise and something i genuinely look forward to since i finally let my guard down early on in season 1, and i just don’t want that guard to go back up. i just want to believe this will keep being that show. b-rank
s-rank: 1
a-rank: 2
b-rank: 6
c-rank: 1
d-rank: 0
average: 3.4 (b-rank)
star trek: lower decks miniseries (comic 2022)
writer: ryan north
artist: chris fenoglio
idw’s most recent star trek miniseries was a three-issue arc based in the continuity of the lower decks animated series. the fact that it wasn’t given a separate title like the various discovery and picard miniseries seems to suggest that they're not planning on visiting this series all that often, but hopefully i’m wrong in that assumption.
in the main plot, our main characters accidentally create a sentient holodeck character in the form of count dracula, a la moriarty in tng’s “elementary, dear data” and “ship in a bottle,” but like way funnier because... it’s fucking dracula? anyway this plot is pretty straightforward and gets resolved pretty easily, which is a shame because i kind of wanted to see that dungeon dracky was so excited about.
once it’s resolved, the dracula plot ends up tying back into the comic’s other plot which sees the ship’s senior officers botch a second contact with several of them being taken into custody by the locals. i can’t say this plot left much of an impression on me, but that’s okay, that’s not really what you’re coming to lower decks for most of the time, right?
on the whole i really enjoyed this comic. it felt really in keeping with the tone of the show, and i really enjoyed a lot of the humor in it to the point of actually occasionally needing to stop and read parts of it out loud to my mates whenever they were in the room with me while i was reading it. in addition to the show’s usual brand of humor, they also took advantage of the format by adding little metatextual footnotes from the perspective of characters or an omniscient narrator. i was skeptical of these at first, but a few of them actually made me laugh out loud, and upon reflection it’s nice that they clearly did put some thought into how to adapt the series to another medium.
again this wasn’t mindblowing or anything, but i’m guessing they more or less made it for people who love the show and would appreciate something to whet their appetite during the long wait between seasons, and this certainly works well enough as far as that goes. b-rank
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