I’ve been rereading the Red Mars/Green Mars/Blue Mars trilogy these last couple of weeks and kept thinking, “damn, these would make for a great tv series.” All the criticism of transnational/metanational corporations probably wouldn’t endear it to most media conglomerates, unfortunately.

One thing I love about this show is that when a character only has very tiny scenes in an episode, they consistently manage to mine it for all its worth.

The Romulan agent lampshading this was pretty hilarious. “Goddammit, I thought I took care of this 30 fucking years ago but nooooo, the timeline just keeps kicking the can down the road!”

“Devil’s Due” deserves to be bumped up a slot or two if only for Michael Dorn’s delivery of Worf’s line, “YOU are NOT Fek’lhr!”

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I avoided this series for quite awhile because of the massive amount of “it’s NOTHING like the books!” angst that came up every time I looked for reviews. I finally very grudgingly decided to give it a try a few months ago. I almost immediately started kicking myself for letting source material snobbery make me nearly…

Speaking as somebody who did like Rogue One, but wasn’t nearly as blown away by it as a lot of other people seemed to be...

Ironically, they have probably less incentive than ever to fix the bizarre hoops you have to jump through to register a new account. They’ve had to implement all kinds of measures to lessen the impact of the enormous flood of new players, those hoops may now be critical to keep the servers from getting swamped.

While there’s probably some of the usual number inflation going on, believe me when I say the game is full of players right now to the point it damn near breaks it at times. They legit had to stop issuing new accounts for awhile a couple of months ago because of the massive new player influx. And all of this with…

I think other comments are right about it being a big step above other videos in terms of blatant brutality and sadism.

Yes, it a claim that I’ve heard Trump supporters make. It’s based on the core Donald Defense Principle: Whatever Trump’s accused of doing something bad, claim that his accuser is actually the one to do that thing, while Trump has actually done the exact opposite and made everything better.

He’s the big exception to the “don’t resurrect somebody if they’re still alive” rule. That and the flower gates must have been the big selling points when Xavier gave him his Krakoa pitch.

To say nothing of trying to fit in date night with Jean and Scott. Everybody focuses on the kinky sex with polyamory, nobody talks about the scheduling gymnastics.

“Give me liberty, or give me death!”

Yeah, I’m kind of surprised that I’m not seeing more people jump on his wording there.

In all seriousness, I think it’s more likely than not (say, 70% chance) that he will find some way to attack Ilhan Omar on 9/11. Actually accusing her of masterminding the attack is being hyperbolic (so only like a 40% chance)(and dear god I wish I knew if I was kidding right there).

It’s something that even his harshest detractors that have actually interacted with him at length don’t push back against. By all accounts, he genuinely doesn’t touch alcohol. Watching his older brother die young due to complications from alcoholism genuinely rattled him. It’s probably the single most human thing I’ve…