I get the complaint, but I’ve felt that having the bridge officers in the background on Discovery is actually an improvement. After Voyager and Enterprise—which had more main characters than the writers cared about or knew how to develop—I thought having a smaller main and larger secondary cast would better serve…

Sure, being binary gets a bad rap, but they had to steal the Enterprise or that emp was going to knock out their planet’s computer!

Yeah, Death is pretty great, but watching these happy-go-lucky goofballs get tortured in hell just feels....wrong.

I kind of love that I can’t tell if your last sentence is about the actor, or the actor’s take on this role. I know, I know, it can be two things.

Getting some good snark on Twitter

I’m not sure you have a handle on the meaning of the word ‘controversial’. 

Yeah. The show didn’t really help themselves on the ghosts-shouldn’t-age thing with their casting. I suppose we can postulate that all those 43 babies are somehow inextricably tied together, and they all age up together, so Dead Ben is getting dragged along with his siblings.

The ending here reminded me a little of the ending of (the terrible) GLASS from last year. The show set up a big Dealey Plaza showdown, and ended in a field somewhere. It also seemed to crib from Looper, The Abyss and The Green Mile. Also 5 proves he’s tougher than the Baratheon Twins.

To be fair, Diego also releases the hose when he realizes he won’t make it to Vanya, so that Klaus can at least take a swing at it.

However, I’d like to pile onto Caroline’s critique of the handling of Ben’s sacrifice too. Considering that Diego was the only one who learned that Ben was even on this plane of existence…

Whereas I feel like Tarintino’s is the most grounded in Gene Roddenberry’s original budget. If Roddenberry could have created an entire new alien world every week, I think he’d have done it.

I liked the Handler far more last season, where she had a unique fashion sense, but was basically sane and dedicated to the job. This wacky megalonmaniacal kook is easily my least favourite part of the season. I recognize that that I might be in a minority of one here. I don’t mind that the show is filled with largely…

I think Caroline’s reviews have been (mostly) on point. You don’t need to be The Wire to wish Ben got more material this season so that his sacrifice would have more weight to it. That Diego’s plot concludes without him really learning anything is a fair observation. I mean, this is just...good criticism?

I’d say these past two episodes could’ve and probably should’ve been trimmed substantially and smooshed together. Lots of wheel spinning. That first sequence in the hallway was over 4 minutes long and, aside from about 3 or 4 lines of dialogue, was just the characters crawling towards a room. Felt like the…

I understand this show is a fun style-over-substance romp but the scene where Diego decides to pick a fight with Klaus as Vanya is about to explode just reminds me that I will never truly love this show. Half of these characters are so incompetent and when the fate of the world is on the line I just cant buy their…

I think both seasons have the same problem: they set up an interesting scenario with interesting characters, but they fundamentally lack any good plan for what should actually happen (and when). So we get a combination of zany distraction, wheel-spinning, and anticlimax.

Oh, u didn’t think you were -my "you know, for kids!" was aimed at Teen Titans Go sticking in such weirdly specific references that kid's wouldn't get. (Which itself isn't a dig - my five year old just loves how silly it is) 

Honestly, the history of Trek movies has pretty much been like a 40 year frat hazing. I just don’t think the premise translates to the big screen although the fact Paramount keeps saddling these things with bad scripts and directors of limited vision hasn’t helped. Abrams, who actually said he couldn’t imagine a way…

Teen Titans Go! did a solid two-part Star Trek spoof. It even included an Inner Light reference (Robin got brain-zapped and stuck in a virtual world where he learned the trumbone) - you know, for kids!