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YES! I knew my poorly-photoshopped Loki-in-all-Movies would pay off one day!

Speak for yourself. Nietzsche was right about a lot of things, but I personally don't believe his notion of the Will to Power (or it's supposed primacy) was one of them.

My reductive pet theory is better than your reductive pet theory!

The reasoning behind staying underwater bothers me (as you said, just... stay up there if you want to hide). But that it can do that doesn't bother me: In "Tomorrow Is Yesterday", we've seen the Enterprise in Earth's atmosphere and in "The Immunity Syndrome", the Enterprise entered the body of a giant space amoeba.…

Monster's ain't got a heart, kid! *Puffs on cigar*

I don't see his big heart :(

All things considered, I easily forgave the Enterprise underwater because, well, it was something we hadn't seen before. A gimmicky trick, sure, but at least it "had the advantage of having never been tried."

"The most irritating part of Star Trek Into Darkness was the reveal of Benedict Cumberbatch as Kirk's arch-nemesis Khan, because..."

I continue to obsess over this. And here's the thing I keep coming back to:

"The truth is because it was so important to the studio that we not angle this thing for existing fans."

It's part of a pattern on a lot of things lately. I'll blather at length on the O-Deck this evening, but the summary is: Folks are trying to take on the trappings of a thing, claim to be of that thing, but fail utterly due to lacking any of the spirit of the thing. That's NuTrek, that's the SW Prequel Trilogy,…

You couldn't be more wrong about the burger.

I forgot one!

Obviously:

Just wrong. Seriously. Wrong. They don't belong together!

Resistance is erectile!