I decided I needed the punishment and so I watched it. The writing is even worse than the last part. I watched this so that you didn't need to, and I made some notes...
"You're afraid of dying. Everyone is!" Well, that's everyone except for the guys with bad haircuts who can plug themselves into that machine, and come back from the dead? They are only worried about receiving circular scars, apparently.
And then there was more corn! Lots of corn! Whole fields of Corn!
They need something that keeps the time on that spaceship. I suggest the invent a clock. Why else do they need to keep asking how many days they are away from the corn planet. It was five days before and x days have past since then. That makes it 5-x days left.
More pictures of fields of corn... I was waiting for Sting to start singing. ...and now lots of grain...
It can't be that difficult to bring in the harvest, because the villagers had time for all that crafting and embroidered tapestries.
Folk singing and dancing, and then... then we must move the grain. Couldn't they have put it in the right place first time?
Now they are training??? They have had months to train and they only start now? Likewise, moving the crashed ship. They've had months to pull it out of the bushes, but only do it with 5-x days left!
After Dinner stories... I don't care enough about what happens to these less-than-magnificent seven. They don't seem sincere. Cora doesn't tell them the truth during this truth-telling session, even though they know her story anyway. Is this really the first time they have told each other these things after being together for months? I did want to know the story about the Big Bird though, but we didn't get that story.
And the android with a conscience and good heart, but who thinks it's a lost cause... He certainly helped with the morale. What is the point of him? He'd be more use as spare parts.
The 5th day has finally arrived...
I must admit, they did dig those tunnels pretty quickly in the 5-x days! And moved all that grain around!
I can see how this was pitched as a Star Wars universe story as some elements of that obviously remain - bionic arm woman from peace-loving people with ancient hokey religion, flaming red and electric blue sword fighting, and has her hand chopped off a second time.
And that is the problem - this is too much of a mash up of other things without bringing along anything original and new itself.
The way she got on the ship wasn't believable, but the ship is very Steampunk - it's all khaki periscopes, hand-targeted cannons, and the engine room seems to involve shovelling a Coal-like mineral into huge furnaces, and shipboard communications involve a succession of people walking up to one another to tell them, "we have orders to fire on the village!" Go pass it on to the next man! And go quickly, or we'll be here all day!
But what about the Grain Sir!
Flash I love you, but we only have 5-x minutes to save the village!
Electric swords are no match for a good blaster!
Oh! Well! We're gonna use them anyway! We need to keep fighting while the spaceship falls in slow motion down to the planet.
Anyway, this time she needs to chop him up in pieces! I'm not sure that decapitation was really enough? He was clearly much more dead once before.
Stay with me, it's only light-sabre flesh wound. If this was Star Wars you'd be fine!
<cheering> <stirring music> <more cheering>
It's really over! Flash, I love you!
Any word on the Grain, Sir!
"We will remember them, when next we bring in the harvest!"
Gordon The Princess Survives!!!
Mr. Glass-is-half-empty android, suddenly appears, "If I can be of use I do have this" antler horn!
Well, I know where you can stick that!
"To find her and to fight!" To find her and to fight!"
Well, that's another two films at least!
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