The latter. We already knew that Luke Cage, Daredevil S3, Punisher, Iron Fist, and Defenders were happening. This event wasn't about announcing any of them but about teasing them and discussing what we'd see in them. As you say, Jessica Jones S2 was already announced, but nothing was said about it here.

I think that's oversimplifying things, considering a) the US's much stronger ties with Saudi Arabia, for example in terms of military bases, and b) the fact that ties between Israel and the US didn't start truly solidifying until the 60s (before that Israel was a lot closer to the USSR, and culturally a lot more…

So all this news, and not a single peep about Jessica Jones S2? Bah.

Which is why it makes so much sense to make a whole show about a guy who is a martial arts master.

In general, I think there aren't enough people acknowledging that you are allowed to pick and choose from these shows. I'm definitely there for Luke Cage and Jessica Jones S2, whenever it happens. And I might watch Iron Fist if the reviews are really good. But you'd have to pay me to watch Daredevil S3 or Punisher,…

It was completely obvious from S2 of Daredevil that the only reason for the Hand's existence in that story was to set up Defenders. And given how Marvel has continued to double down on the Infinity Gauntlet despite the fact that not a single one of the stories building up to it has been worth the trouble, it was…

I thought the Punisher was interesting, but he was interesting as a bad guy, or a sad person who had lost their way. It's utterly incomprehensible to me that anyone would want to make a story in which this bloodthirsty serial killer is the protagonist.

Surely a crucial issue is that these situations arise from a context and a political system that most of these shows don't depict day in and out. How often do black characters on TV shows that don't center around the black experience (i.e. most of them) talk about the difference between how they and their white…

I agree that Q cares about Picard. I just think that he's too self-absorbed and lacking in reflection to truly understand Picard's complexity, and how he feels about his life. I'd have an easier time believing in a Q who wants Picard to stay exactly the person he was as the cadet who got into the fight with the…

I can see that the idea with Sela was to go beyond double casting and give the crew an enemy who had the face of a friend. But the writers should really have considered what they were doing to their character. Even if Sela had turned out to be a good villain, I don't think it would have been worth what they did to…

To me what makes it more persuasive as a hallucination is the fact that it's so clearly rooted in Picard's own anxieties about himself and the path he's chosen in life. Picard is defined by his contradictions: he's a scholar and a warrior, a buttoned-down diplomat and an adventurer. Throughout TNG we see a lot of…

The only problem with "Yesterday's Enterprise" is that the show eventually reveals that Tasha didn't die on the C but was instead taken captive, raped, made to carry her rapist's baby, and finally betrayed to her death by her own child. Especially given how little the show ended up doing with Sela, that was such an…

Well, that leads us into the debate over whether "Tapestry" is really a time travel episode, or whether Picard was just hallucinating Q as he was dying (or whether Q was just toying with Picard with no intention of actually changing the timeline). But yes, it is a great episode.

Nitpicking: there is no such thing as "the Jewish Lucifer". Lucifer, and in fact the whole concept of the devil as we know it now, are Christian inventions that have been built up for centuries, and probably have as much to do with pop culture as religion.

OK, but are those guys meant to be heroic? Is it suggested that we should be lining up to shower opportunities on them, and trust them with prestigious jobs that require a lot of responsibility and hard work?

And what was his mother, chopped liver? Was there nothing about her Starfleet career that could be an inspiration to her son? It's one thing to live in your father's shadow, but the films make it seem as if Jim had no parental role models except the dead dad, and that's absurd.

I would argue that Evans doesn't belong here either. He was working for a long time before he got Captain America, and though they were rarely meaty roles, he always made the best of them - I can't be the only one who walked out of Scott Pilgrim amazed at how good he was, and as bad as the Fantastic Four movies were,…

Obligatory reminder that NuTrek Jim Kirk's mother was also a Starfleet officer, and that she remarried so Jim had a stepfather, and that he would have had no memory of his biological father. So this whole concept that this series has been carrying for three movies, that Kirk is messed up because of his father's death…

I had a lot of problems with the S2 finale, but killing Rita was definitely the biggest one. And not just because she was an interesting female character on a show that is sadly dude-heavy, but because her death was dumb, unearned, and validated a lot of Major's vigilante warrior behavior over the course of the past…

Hey, if you write a world in which the only realistic choices laid before your characters are complete surrender or all-out war, I'm pretty sure you don't get to complain about being called a fascist.