I love Children of Time, but I think I’d have a hard time watching it live-action. It’s a lot easier to distance myself from the fact that they’re spiders when it’s in book form.

Is Zoe Saldana’s Uhura really considered one of the highlights of the casting? I would give that honor to Karl Urban’s McCoy (both personally - in that I thought he was awesome - and that he was pretty well-loved by the fans). I mean, Saldana is fine, but she plays Uhura pretty much the exact same way she plays all of…

I really liked The Gifted. It had some interesting ideas and it took a lot of interesting risks, even though some of the characters could be a bit insufferable.

What a terrible idea.

I haven’t read his essays and such, but being an ex-Mormon myself (grew up in it) the impression I get is that he was way less Mormon when he wrote books like Ender’s Game and SftD, and then went all in later in life.

The fact that she’s in good company with Elon Musk here (spends way too much time arguing with people on Twitter) says a lot about how happy (not) being rich and famous clearly makes these people.

Seriously. I imagine a lot of people in his position would just chase the fame and try to stay in the public consciousness for as long as possible. Radcliffe does whatever speaks to him as an actor, and you can also see him continuing to grow and refine his craft. It’s awesome.

It’s like Orson Scott Card. The man has done a total 180 from who he was when he wrote Speaker for the Dead - an incredible book about learning to love and see the humanity in the Other... and now he’s a rampant homophobe and Islamophobe.

My favorite part of that episode is when Kira gets really upset and essentially says “I did not sign up for whacky Star Trek adventures!”

“It’s easy to be a saint in paradise” is one of my favorite DS9 quotes.

I’ll buy it (thought my personal fave of Lost is ‘The Constant’ and that’s in fourth season).

Imo, DS9 got progressively better with each season, peaked in sixth, and then took a bit of a dive in seventh (which has some excellent episodes - I personally love the last run up to the series finale - but also includes some bonkers decisions like Sisko is half-Prophet and a few too many boring Ezri fillers).

I’m pretty ick about Rogue/Magneto myself given the age difference (knowing there’s ton of precedent for it in the comics doesn’t make it better) and I was worried her only thing this season would be the love triangle. And wow has that not been the case, and I’m so, so happy about where it’s taken her.

Unfortunately, the early films was hamstrung by the fact that things like comics-level costuming would be very offputting to mainstream audiences. The MCU in particular has done a lot to bring audiences around to accepting a lot of things that - depicted live-action - can come across as goofy. And my hope is that…

As a Rogue fan, I have spent decades now trying to explain to non-fans why I love the character and no, that Fox movie version is nothing at all like what she is in the comics. And it is just SO REFRESHING to have such a wonderful take on her character. I am loving what this show has done for her so far.

That said, an X-Men universe where a Captain Marvel exists leads to the possibility of Rogue being up to full power, which would be good to see.

I cackled when Rogue tossed away Captain America’s shield into the mountains. Just beautiful.

There’s a lot of talk made about the whole inter-personal conflict thing, but it’s also worth noting how much more compelling DS9 characters are. Because - unlike the TNG cast - they were allowed to be flawed. The same is true for Voyager, which let its characters have more warts than TNG ever really did. While TNG as…

My personal fave is “Telling the truth is just an excuse for lack of imagination.”

Ooo, we’re here to talk about not just DS9's best, but also one of the best Trek episodes ever? I’m in!