(Eddie starts playing Master of Puppets)

When Steve plays Vecna’s ribs like a xylophone, he strikes the same rib twice in succession, yet he produces two clearly different tones

Favorite episodes of Trek were always first contact missions, and diplomacy. I hate the current trend of forming the Avengers to prevent the galaxy from dying.

I’m beating a dead horse at this point, but what a shame that everything on this show is so bleak and depressing. They travel 930 years in the future, and guess what, everyone is mean and selfish.

Throughout Disco and Picard’s seasons, I’ve talked about how my problem with the shows is that they creators don’t seem to either understand or buy into the philosophy of Trek. It’s not about the choices that an individual character makes, but how those choices are treated and how the background morality of the…

I can’t disagree with you on that one. At least we are hearing about it now in the teaser trailer. If it does not come up until the third act of the movie, then it will be like a trilogy that pulls something out of it’s arse at the last moment.

Force Ghost with a little more ability to interact than Yoda calling down the lightning would be good.

Again, would make more sense if they’d even hinted at Palpatine at all in the two previous movies.

I’m sure all this hangs together somehow, but to me, introducing all of this Dune-level mumbo-jumbo to the mainline Star Wars films now would be like if the Guardians of the Galaxy showed up with the Infinity Stones in Iron Man 2.

Can I just say, that line destroyed any possible appeal the film might have had for me.

I hope that this ends up being more like the horcruxes in Harry Potter. Not something that pulls him through time, or allows him to resurrect, but more something that allows him to possess someone or manifest himself in another way.

Star Trek is, imo, a hugely different type of franchise tho. 

With the movies having just barely meddled with some of the crazier aspects of the force, any attempt to re-introduce Palp needs to be pretty high level imo.  Force Ghost with a little more ability to interact than Yoda calling down the lightning would be good.

When we start elevating brand synergy between two multinational corporations to storytelling significance, I think the fictional concept of canon can now be safely buried for eternity.

Gamora isn’t dead at all. Marvel has publicly acknowledged she is trapped inside the Soul Stone. Trapped is not dead. Thanos actually did talk to her inside the Stone at the end of the movie (that’s what the orange light everywhere in that scene was all about). Even if they weren’t able to undo the snap, Gamora could…

Lets not equate the network doing an investigation and putting him back on the air to him being innocent or Dykstra lying in her post. I don’t think I can in good conscious watch Hardwick anymore or listen to his podcast. It’s fucked up all around.

Did everyone forget about The Visit? It was just a year or two before Split and it definitely did not “completely suck.”

Ha as a kid I would get the Little Orphan Annie collections out from the library (yes, because as soon as I learned to read I wanted to know what Annie was based on... God I was gay). I don’t think it dawned on me for at least ten more years how incredibly strange so many of her adventures in the comics were.

You’re right, of course, that the period people really remember Nancy for was essentially a gag-a-day, often absurdist strip, and that was its longest period. But yeah, I have a sick interest in the history of these strips, and it started as Fritzi Ritz in 1922, one of a series of “flapper strips” from the era that…

Leia was well within the potential survival time for space vacuum exposure, especially if you consider her ability to use the force as a justification for her ability to regain consciousness.