I’ve never been down with this whole “bad pizza is still good because it’s still pizza” idea. If I have bad lima beans, so what? Lima beans suck. But disappointment scales with expectations, and we have high expectations for pizza! We also HAD high expectations with Star Wars, and this movie was the end of that.…

I’d still rather read this than the retweeted garbage this site had been slinging for the last several years!

Besides, Lower Decks is proof that the Star Trek people have a sense of humor; there’s no way in hell George Lucas would allow Star Wars to be lampooned in that manner.  It probably helps that Roddenberry’s been dead for an entire generation at this point.

It even spoiled its own plot - “Somehow, Palpatine returned!” It’s not just a stupid plot point that contradicted the previous movie, it was the first thing we saw!

This makes so much more sense than what we got.

I didn’t miss much then!

This is proof we aren’t in the darkest timeline, because an “HOA for cars” is definitely the darkest timeline.

Hopefully the folks with raging boners for the purity tests will slowly be shuffled off and replaced with some of the new/returning writers.  Let’s start with whoever is in charge of these headlines.

Agreed - there is a lot more that could be told based on the history of the real people the book was based on.

Another excellent review, thank you Tara!  I was definitely going to see this in IMAX anyway, but I appreciate knowing I’ll enjoy it.

Ah yes, the folks who are really smart and educated in one particular subject, who then think that expertise applies to everything in life.  I’ve met quite a few doctors and professors of that type (not all MAGA, mind you) - the sort that are seldom right but always certain.

That is fucking stupid, for sure. I could see someone holing up with a semiauto shotgun in their business in the area those were going on, but definitely not coming outside.

I remember the $1000 movie joke, but not the actual movie.  That’s amazing!

I am sympathetic to folks who live where police response is not prompt keeping guns in their home or business, but if I had a concealed carry permit, I’d only bring a gun if I was going somewhere I thought was unsafe, and I do my best to avoid needing to go to such places voluntarily.

Let’s not forget that AV Club now belongs to Paste.  Not sure when the full separation will happen, but I’ve noticed more media coverage on Gizmodo since that happened.

I can totally get why, now that they’ve got more money than they can possibly spend, that they might not be down for that kind of grind anymore.

Oh I agree, it’s just that major studios have lost their appetite for smaller movies - I have to assume that the marketing costs don’t scale with the budget for the movie, so making $70 million on a $30 million movie doesn’t pencil out, or maybe this is all cyclical.

I know the plot of the *movie* Titanic due to an early episode of Futurama.

I’ve still been getting the last one of these articles popping up below the comments on other articles!  I thought that somehow it got pulled back up into news.

Agreed!