I would’ve been fine with a recap, but there was no need to recreate things in live-action: Just do “previously on” clips from The Clone Wars and Rebels. If Star Trek: Strange New Worlds can do a Lower Decks crossover where Boimler & Mariner start out as their usual animated selves and then change to live-action…

Theoretically, everyone is connected to the Force, so Huyang’s statement doesn’t require Sabine to have any more Force abilities than an average person. Rebels made a point of Sabine not being a Force user in the Darksaber arc, so it would be odd for Filoni to retcon that now.

“Even if, as Huyang says, Sabine has less Jedi ability than any padawan he’s ever seen in history. (Which, quick aside, is a pretty messed up thing for him to say even if it gives Sabine that much more room to grow.)”

“Cosmic marks the first time in earnest that the franchise is creating its own material in whole cloth...”

I remain convinced that Roddenberry created Chekov in an attempt to draw in some of the Illya Kuryakin fanbase (as well as the Davy Jones fanbase). He claimed it was due to an editorial in Pravda complaining that ST had no Russians, but there’s no evidence any such editorial was ever published, and it’s unlikely…

“...we’re living in a golden age of exploring the fact that Spock Is Hot.”

It sounds like a very different thing, but I was impressed by how well the 2006-7 Kamen Rider Kabuto handled its “Clock Up” superspeed sequences. They took the extreme slow-motion approach similar to that seen in Smallville, the X-Men movies, and The Flash (the movie) to depict superspeed, but for their time, budget,…

Wouldn’t it be funny if they moved production to Tokyo?

“Splitting films into multiple parts is still a fairly recent phenomenon”

I’m glad the show uses the Goldsmith themes, but annoyed that they don’t credit Goldsmith in the end titles. He may no longer be around, but presumably he has an estate that should be getting royalties.

Absolutely. If someone burned down their own business and filed an insurance claim, that would be blatant fraud and they’d go to jail. Deliberately pulling shows from streaming or cancelling a movie like Batgirl in order to manufacture an artificial “loss” to claim a tax deduction is the exact same thing, yet somehow…

To quote the story, “Burdens went on the backs of citizens or their animals, by boat, by travois, by sledge in winter -- never on wheels.”

No — in the movie, Mr. Wing refused to sell Gizmo, but his grandson did it behind his back. Wing returned at the end of the movie to take Gizmo back, and they stayed together until Wing died at the start of the sequel.

These were featured in Poul Anderson’s 1963 story “The Three-Cornered Wheel.” A space explorer crew needs to find a way to transport equipment on a planet whose natives see circles as sacred and consider their secular use blasphemous. So the hero has the idea to use wheels of this shape instead.

“it’s all about the team surrounding the hero. That [was never part of the] genre until it was established by Stephen J. Cannell. Pam and Bill are his team. They know everything Ralph knows. That was a huge difference from every superhero that came before.”

My preferred medium for grilled cheese, which I learned from Alton Brown, is olive oil.

Correcting myself — it was just “months” that Barry jumped forward, not specifically 6 months.

According to the producers, it’s the same reason they didn’t follow up on the Psycho Pirate teaser in Elseworlds last year. When the time came to break the story, they found it going in a different direction and it would’ve just gotten in the way to try to be beholden to those past teases.

“That means our Barry and that Barry were only able to meet each other because of their connection to the Speed Force, so the DC movies must exist in a separate multiverse that is connected to the CW multiverse by the Speed Force.”

“You have our father’s eyes” is a direct quote from the Batwoman comics. It’s how Alice recognized that Batwoman was Kate -- and let her know that she knew.