WHO CARES

SeeSo has all of SNL now, I think.

I was enjoying this well enough until it switched to the ghost girl. It felt like a non-ending/non-joke at that point.

I've found the previous Wye Oak albums boring and unengaging and find this to be more of the same and find the AVC obsession with them baffling. But I'm not going to blow a gasket over it.

The Enterprise is the exception due to the legacy of the name - when other new ships use long-running names, they get new registry numbers.

That feels kind of unfair - from my searching around for both professional and fan reviews, a good number of people who are real Trek fans have said how much more in the spirit of Star Trek this film comes across, far more so than either of the Abrams films. (I've not seen it myself yet, but I plan to this weekend,…

The only thing I can recall off the top of my head about Sulu from STID was his brief moment in the captain's chair, threatening Harrison ("If you test me…you will fail"), followed by McCoy's "Mr. Sulu…remind me never to piss you off."

This sort of thing really resonates with me. The "it's like a TOS episode made on a huge, eye-popping scale" just hits me right in the feels. That's what I wanted after getting through the 2009 film - OK, y'all cleared the table, set your pieces up in new places, got through some dumb things…now let's get out there…

I'm wondering what reviews you've been reading, because I've read numerous ones that say "Beyond" is noticeably *more* Trek-y than either of the Abrams films.

The last few days have seen my cautious optimism get bolstered by a string of great reviews - it sounds like "Beyond" balances the action blockbuster stuff with actual TOS Trek heart far, far better than either of the Abrams films managed. "A fun adventure out in space with the TOS characters" is exactly what I've…

Co-writer/head comment section troll Roberto Orci. He was to direct (!) Beyond and have a hand in its story, too, until he got booted from the franchise and the reins turned over to Lin/Pegg/Jung.

That's a very selective reading of the "good" reviews.

The reviews of Beyond thus far sound as though everything I hated about STID isn't a factor in the new one, so some of us are choosing to be hopeful.

There are also "scientific inquiries" into chemtrails and Moon hoax claims - it doesn't make either of those real, either.

Because ghosts aren't real.

The entire "Jimmy Tango's Fatbusters" sketch is amazing. Carrey and Ferrell are just so fucking committed to the insanity.

"Cracklin' Rose, get on board.
We're gonna ride 'til there ain't no more to go.
Takin' it slow.
…Let's all do the best we can…
…I can turn invisible if I really try-y hard!

All of Harvey Danger's albums are great.

This is the shit you'll review, but not, for example, the new Coathangers album? Jesus tapdancing Christ.

It works through sheer force of excess, stupidity, and cheapness (with the puke cannons malfunctioning constantly, either continuing after the actor has already lowered their arm or not coming on when they're supposed to, prompting Chris Elliott's "dry heaves" ad-lib).