I’m really enjoying this show. It’s essentially TNG with dick jokes, but it turns out adding dick jokes is the least worse way to ‘update’ Star Trek for a modern audience. I’ll take some crude humour over setting it in a grimdark future with a crew with secrets in their past or making it pure action or trying to make…

Yeah, I actually listened to the recording and after he tells the story he says, “Well I guess *I* decided,” and she responds “Shocking...” in a sarcastic way, which says to me that he decides a lot of things for her. Awful.

There is also a hate for McFarlane’s low brow humor and characters. The low brow humor mixed with high brow Star Trek references is really throwing TNG fans for a loop. I actually think it may work for the general population who like pop science fiction but it hate stuff that think it is smarter than it actually is.

Yeah this story raised a lot of alarms for me, mostly because I know birth control sabotage frequently coincides with emotional and/or physical abuse.

One’s mileage will vary, I suppose. I thought the comedy was a bit flat on orville, but that the stories were still solid enough. The first few episodes of Iron Fist just felt to me like a drawn-out, 4 hour version of the pilot of Arrow.

I do disagree that the humor on Orville is McFarlane’s usual style. It doesn’t…

They’ve done nothing that is actionable under copyright. Copyright protects specifics, not tone, feel and style.

Well at least they’ve FINALLY figured out its not a parody series its an homage to Trek. Seriously the fact they took this long to figure it out leads me to think they don’t understand the show at a basic level. This is Seth MacFarlanes attempt to bring Star Trek: TNG to a new generation like he watched it as a kid.…

Yeah let me tell you. It takes a lot of manipulation to get a person to the point where a dude can throw away all her birth control pills while a friend films it and then she can have his baby. Just based on this interview, he’s been pushing her boundaries and testing her limits since they first starting dated.…

Here’s a question for the harshness this show is being judge by....if Ed Mercer were played by Nathan Fillion would the critical world be judging this show so harshly? If MacFarlane’s name wasn’t attached, wouldn’t we be lauding this as a worthy but imperfect heir for ST: TNG? I say this as a fan of both. The show is…

It had nothing to do with the writers being progressive - there was a hard line drawn by Roddenberry, then Berman, disallowing any such continuity. They simply weren’t allowed to have lasting repercussions.

I find the critiques of this show fascinating:

Frankly, I was surprised that it worked at times, especially given the lack of research into the issue of gender identity.

There’s a name for that!?

My husband I were shown that, he asked to know the total cost of ownership on each one. When the salesman came back, it was clear that he was recommending the most expensive one.

People need to STOP interviewing Spicer. This man doesn’t deserve redemption. Keep him off your late night shows. Keep him away from award shows. Keep him out of your magazines!

Thanks! Glad to know I’m not the only one that took issue with this comment. Even putting aside it being obvious that it sucks to have strangers around, all he had to do was have a conversation with his wife and listen to her. Why make ass backwards assumptions? I also hate when people invoke other people to try to…

This is a good review of how it works: https://consumerist.com/2007/03/30/dealerships-rip-you-off-with-the-four-square-heres-how-to-beat-it/

‘when the GSM (General Sales Manager) tells you to four-square a father of two who actually knows what he’s talking about.’

In my film school the divide was about 50/50 men and women. Slightly more men writing than women, just as many women in directing and production. By the time you get into the industry, 97% of studios are run by white men, 90% of writers and directors in film and television are men, about 80% of them are white men,…