10 episodes that show how The Walking Dead turned into a cultural juggernaut

I been thinking about this for a few hours now, and I’m still not getting the praise. It wasn’t a bad episode, but it was just very okay. I never think that Trek does Star Wars very well, and this Firefly riff also didn’t fit supergreat.

I’ve not really been a huge fan of Disco or Picard, but the one thing I can say is that they’ve avoided the overwhelming same-iness of Enterprise. There are a few Enterprise episodes I really like, but huge chunks of the show (like most of season 2) feel like they were done better before on other trek shows.

I’d totally forgotten about that connection. TWD has been one long blur for so long now that I can’t even remember if she made it to his seasons? (easily looked up, but I won’t do it on principle)

Space-Negan. Hooray.

Another Spring fan. And Endless felt like it should have been good. but two watches and it still never clicked for me.

Exactly, although timing-wise it’s probably more like fighting to rebuild the spanish or portuguese empires. But also “This guy cosplaying as Columbus is a totally sane and reasonable hero, and is not at all a weirdo.”

BSG is basically killer robots + some Mormon stuff, and the 70s version wasn’t very good, which left plenty of room for RDM to reinvent it post-9/11. Yet another reboot is stupid, but RDM’s version never really dealt with the AI side of things (until caprica), and it all fell apart at the end, so maybe there’s room…

Babylon 5 modern revival please.

...and thinking about that a bit more, when I think of “The Federation” I think of the highly successful, post-scarcity, quasi-utopia of the 24th century.

Trek is weird, because it’s all about infinite diversity in infinite combinations, while also being all about the military and colonialism.

The problem with Discovery is that it’s made by people who love Star Trek, but have no clue what makes Star Trek work.

I don’t know what the point of Rutherford’s mindwipe was, other than maybe as a joke about someone like Uhura getting mindwiped one week, and back to normal the next?

Yup. I just can’t avoid comparisons to Peralta, because even his character generally knows when to turn off his schtick.

Boimler’s tough, because he’s in a bullying relationship with Mariner. Paris could be a douchy bully to everyone, but Mariner is that x10. If lower decks were liveaction the Mariner/Boimler stuff would be seriously awkward.

I also really liked it, also think it’s probably the best trek first season (helped by the low episode count), and am also annoyed at the avclub.

In the background here is the building, with the big banners:

The final scene of the soldiergoons killing the zombies happens on the lawn where the monumentday/graduation ceremony happened. I won’t blame anyone for snoozing through this terrible show, but the same big school building is in the background with torn Monument Day banners. So it is 100% meant to be Campus Colony.

Also Enterprise! (although apparently not Insurrection or Nemesis, which surprises me)

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