The secret is to listen to the star dates. Sometimes episodes happen weeks or months after the previous ones, sometimes not much time passes at all. Trek fans (and the writers) used to pay attention to details like that. Also, “emotional ramifications” are not by default a good thing. Michael Burnham screamed and…

Although that’s true (I was around for the conversations around Enterprise), I’ve been rewatching all the series under lockdown, and It’s just glaring how dumb and melodramatic the new series are compared to TOS and the TNG era. Both Voyager and Enterprise could be underwhelming, but at least they felt like Star Trek…

I’m not ashamed to say I loved it, and defend it, even if it was sequel-batey. However, in the old EU, Han’s backstory was very lushly filled out in some great books (I never read them, but it seems Solo basically got the broad strokes), and as a Thrawn Trilogy fan I kinda get not liking the “reinvention” of bits

Were they using it as an insult?  “Mental Retardation” is still an accepted clinical term, and it’s not like saying “Severe Intellectual Disability” changes the nature of the condition

Today I learned the word “marbit”

If one thinks everyone around them is an asshole acting in bad faith, they are probably the asshole acting in bad faith

Toho officially refers to Godzilla as a “he”, and in both 1967's Son of Godzilla and 1993's Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla II he adopts the infants (I think in the latter the scientists remark the egg is older than Godzilla).  

Well, that’s the thing, isn’t it- is there any data that show that these terms’ usages cause URM from entering coding/IT fields?  If not, this is just feel-good warm-and-fuzzies that don’t actually accomplish anything.

The “Chaos Edition” fan edits of both movies are much more satisfying.

Exactly. Moreover, alongside those archetypes is a great story that has faith in the human spirit. The Last Jedi, in contrast, is clearly steeped in deconstructionist cynicism, which is just not what Star Wars is about. “Subverting expectations” by just doing the opposite of what people want or expect isn’t clever;…

When The Office came out, I didn’t recognize any of the actors so I legitimately thought it was a reality show- a dull one, at that, so I stopped watching. It wasn’t until I heard someone describe it as “funny” that I figured out it was supposed to be a comedy.  I still don’t get it, but I’m happy the people involved…

Funny, I was thinking Star Trek will age terribly when it decides to rebrand itself as a 7.5 hour Zack Snyder movie

I read her paper when it came out, it honestly didn’t get that much attention from psych or bio fields, but I might include it in my History of Psychology seminar. One main issue people who did read it had is that her arguments could be rewired to sound similar to Evangelicals’ disagreements with evolution…

I agree with all of your points. My main beef is how they try to have “main” characters at all. Trek has ensemble casts, and we get to see extraordinary events and moral dilemmas from each character’s unique perspective. Here, they dropped Michael and her drama on us and just expected us to be interested. It doesn’t…

The real question is whether Jango was. Before Almec told Obiwan that Jango wasn’t Mandalorian in The Clone Wars, there was already some EU history that he was a foundling with a history similar to Djarin (This is where they retconned the old “Jaster Mareel” story too). Frankly I always thought Almec, a “New” pacifist …

Was that sexism or the general distrust of the Bene Gesserit that most nobles felt?

“Yes, this movie lasts about half an hour too long and doesn’t really give a third installment anything to work with,”

that could be a little overwhelming

Men outnumber women as surgeons generally, not just plastic surgery.  Frankly, it’s probably a mix of being a more “action” based discipline (vs. “people” or “care”-based) and the high status it confers, both of which are more attractive to men choosing careers

I second God Emperor of Dune being the best (it’s book 4 after Children of Dune, which has its moments as well).  Also has one of the best woman protagonists I’ve ever read