Respectfully, I don’t think there’s some “thing” about Trek that you’ve figured out that Discoverey’s showrunners have missed. They know what show they’re making.

ReBoot represent!  Incoming game!

Goblin Emperor wasn’t even on my radar, but I’ll look for it. I enjoyed the heck out of If We Were Villains a couple of weeks ago, even if the haters did say it was a rehash of The Secret History. It had a kind of breathless sincerity about it.

I will quote my wife when I showed this to her:  “Controversy?  I can’t even tell what it is.  A hat... a bowtie... a spaceship with a hose going up his butt?  Is that why there’s a controversy, because the hose is going up his butt?”

Well said, biped!

That was a just plain brilliant comment.  Imma go eat 15 grams of chocolate in celebration.

What an excellent and awesome reply.  I’ve been finding little moments of joy in this troubling time by finding and complimenting people on the good things they put in comments sections.  I don’t do it enough.  Thanks for what you did here.  I’ve only read the first two Murderbots, but as a Wells fan from way back,…

Smurfs? Really?

Counterpoint: a couple of AAs in a remote will last for years. Sometimes longer than the life of the remote. Why add the expense of a USB port and a rechargeable battery?

Wow. Shows how subjective these things are. My first reaction was that this was the best list in a few months. I read Adrian Tchaikovsky’s first “Expert system” novella and was in awe of it, so I’m very much in for reading the sequel, which I hadn’t even heard about until now. The Masterton, the Hocking and the Pratt…

Calling it now: Giancarlo Esposito is more adorable than Timothee Chalamet.  

Damn. Posted similar without scrolling down.  You definitely got there first.

I mean — it’s clearly one traitor Trisolaran warning is that they're coming to invade, am I right?

See, on the one hand, I want to compliment you on the understated wit of this response, but then if I do, I worry that I might spoil it by going overboard and actually talking about how clever it was.

Wow, Bill Berr is cool for not liking stuff that people like.  And for calling women bitches and stuff.  Edgy.

I agree. I followed it all the way to the end, but I had lost the respect that I had at first. In the first season it really looked like I was seeing a tightly-conceived true-to-its-own-rules time travel story, which are so rare. Then, by the third season it had plot holes you could fly a whole extra planet through,…

I had hoped he would have included the lyrics. They begin, for those of you who don’t know:

I had been away for almost that long a couple of years ago. It was the occasion of a funeral that made me decide to get back into it. It’s been fucking fantastic playing again. A couple of old friends and a few new ones, and it’s like I never left.

Nice.  Thanks.  I wonder if they’re going to study predation in zero-g now...

I think the point is that they use gravity to orient themselves and thus to orient the asymmetry of their webs. My guess is that said asymmetry must have function — either in the stability of the structure itself or in its prey-capturing capabilities.