![Season 8 Episode 7 - Rage Against the Vaccine [Discussion and Spoilers]](https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/c3751308-b4c6-4c90-90ec-2fe503380950.webp){kind=link}
Airing on Hulu (US) or Disney Plus (outside US) - Monday, September 4, 2023 at Eastern Time (ET) 03:00 a.m/ Pacific Time (PT) 12:00 a.m
Airing on Hulu (US) or Disney Plus (outside US) - Monday, September 4, 2023 at Eastern Time (ET) 03:00 a.m/ Pacific Time (PT) 12:00 a.m
It really feels like these episodes were written in 2020 which already makes them feel dated and played out.
They probably were
I just watched it and I kind of disagree. I haven’t seen this version of a pandemic episode yet - anger being the virus.
All of us were angry if doesn’t matter what you did or didn’t do.
I thought it was a good episode.
I liked the twist of anger being the virus, but felt like the satire was pretty muted compared to what they could have done with the concept.
The sharpest jab, I think, was subtle. That was when Hermes narrated the typical scifi/magic mumbo-jumbo that comprised the solution (like, reverse the polarity of the dark matter tachyon field in the SIF and feed it into the spacetime rift through the deflector array), but in this case it was an accurate description of a real vaccine. Dressing up the vaccine with the language of shady miracle cures might have worked in the real world, if it weren’t for those pesky medical ethics.
That was a nice twist and I sort of enjoyed the omicronians “omicron” mutation.
There are infinite ways to change the specific virus for a parody. That doesn’t really change that it’s parodying a situation that was already parodied to death by 2022.
I think it’s mostly well written, and there are some good subtle and non-subtle jokes, but it came way too late.
Yes, the episode is good. Still the topic feels dated and beaten to death.
And they weren’t good to begin with.
I’ll admit the ‘covid still dragging on a millenium later’ was funny, but this just felt like someone failing to mould a story around an idea