yeah putting a black woman in charge and building a queer community on the ship sure are meaningless at a time when racist, religious extremists are attempting to remove the franchise from black folks and sack congress. /sarcasm

the sequels didn’t almost kill Star Wars. You whiners really can’t understand that people enjoyed those films and that one of them is the best film in the whole series.

Based on what’s canon now, post-Disney buyout, no...he’s absolutely not a great Jedi...and that’s exactly what makes TLJ work.

Everyone always just assumed Luke went on to become this revered Jedi Master, while failing to realize that he basically had to start from scratch. Obi-Wan gave great advice, but it was just…

My issue with the M-count thing is that Midichlorians don’t create The Force, dammit. This is a common misremembering from TPM. They are attracted to Force-sensitive people.

Same reason I dislike the ME3 ending. Though for me Control was the least evil.

This just reminds me that I played ME1 a few times, ME2 a few times, and ME3... once. No, I wasn’t one of the “Hold the Line” idiots, I didn’t have a problem with “three color choices! AAA!”

“...It’s easy to be a saint in paradise"

This season also only works as well as it does because the crew and their interpersonal relationships have all been established. The actors have lived in the characters heads in a way where none of this would feel earned if the show had started here (no matter how much I prefer that idea).

I’m guessing that was deliberate because it came from Tilly and hopefully will be addressed in the next ep. Frakes is a trans rights activist and wouldn't have messed that up.

Are you actually watching the show or just mad at a recap? Optimistic people rebuilding their optimistic Utopia is more interesting than just more of the same running around that Utopia. 2020 needs shows about building hope to the future, not just 80-90s Trek’s handwave “We get over it yay!” backstory.

This episode literally had them talking things out with a diplomatic solution — the very epitome of Trek.

I’ve not yet seen this episode, but since Season 2 Discovery’s remit seems to all about keeping the light of hope burning in the darkest times. Pretty relevant to today, I think.

To each their own. The depictions of Death of the Endless, especially in her solo graphic novels, never struck me as casual. And in the history of the comic, she was definitely not always chipper. She became so detached due to people hating and fearing her that she decided to become mortal for day once a century, to…

[T]here’s often a casualness in her depictions that makes her presence feel almost like it doesn’t have quite the import that it should.

What was that line after they spray Burnham? “I have a friend with red hair. You cannot give this to her.” I laughed until I was in tears.

Cue the trolls trying in vain to justify the hyper-sexualized designs of the female characters.

AC III was the first AC game I didn’t finish, and it started a pretty long drought that had me mostly ignoring the AC franchise, except for Black Flag because pirate ships, until I came back to it with Odyssey (which I love). I think it was partly the protagonist being so flat and drab, and the setting just not being…

Ghost Protocol is my go to MI film. Infinitely re-watchable. 

You are correct. I don’t follow the Mission Impossible movies, so I just forgot about Ghost Protocol.

Subjective opinion is indeed just that.