\n\n\nWatched \u201cShades of Gray\u201d and\u2026 I\u2019m at a loss for words, honestly. Like, I went into this thinking \u201cthis doesn\u2019t seem so bad, how come Let\u2019s Watch Star Trek gave it a 0/5\u2033 and then the clips started rolling and like\u2026
I think the thing that makes it so much worse than any other clip show I\u2019ve seen is how it fucked up in setting expectations. Like, if it had had your usual clip show framing device, like if it was the crew sitting around playing poker and talking about all their wild adventures on the Enterprise, well, it still would\u2019ve been lazy and not-great, as all clip shows are, but I wouldn\u2019t have expected anything else. But like, it started out having an actual plot! There was no indication that a quarter of the way through it would just give up and start showing us clips of old episodes until it happened. It\u2019s like if you went to a fancy restaurant and ordered your food and had appetizers and everything was normal until the main course arrived and the waiter lifted the silver lid and underneath it was just a Big Mac in the original packaging.
Do they still do clip shows? (Do made-for-Netflix things where a whole season is plotted and shot at once do bottle episodes?)
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