Interesting to see how Army of the Dead did it, as full-auto blanks in crowds full of stunt performers would not have been safe. I thought the end result looked great.

Disney’s face-saving excuse to the press was that Alan Horn jumped the gun and unilaterally fired Gunn as damage control, without consulting Kevin Feige or Bob Iger.

In multiple post-show interviews, Colbert said that he had asked Conan to come up with them if the Late Show won, and Conan even asked him if he was sure he wanted that.

If you read Stewart’s publicity interviews promoting season 1 and 2, these are exactly the stories he wants to tell. So it’s the same dissatisfaction with explorer-diplomat Picard that gave us the sex and fistfights of “Captain’s Holiday” and the space dune-buggies of Nemesis, unfettered by any writers with an…

Did they explicitly say that Beverly Crusher was dead, or was that just something fans inferred?

Ugh. I prefer my Mexican AR-15 with real cane sugar, thank you very much.

I don’t really keep up with the Disney Parks news, but wasn’t Chapek infamous for raising prices while cutting attractions and parkgoer conveniences? And the worry about Iger’s exit was whether the same would happen in the various studios? I was only partially surprised that they flubbed the Johansson renegotiations…

That’s the “B.B. Dowd” rule; not sure it applies to anyone else.

Should I be worried that the paragraph that gives the rundown on the actors’ performances doesn’t even mention the eponymous main character played by Simu Liu (I haven’t seen Kim’s Convenience)?

Well, we know that there were never X-Wings because Star Wars is completely in the distant past. It’ll be another 240 years or so until we can prove the Enterprise to be fictional.

Red, yellow, and blue cubes, just as came out of the food processors in Star Trek TOS?

Just have Mercer voice the new woman; he can pull it off.

They still could, as Apple has about $200 billion cash on hand.

1.7 million crew and 400,000 droids aboard DS-I.

No, there is gravity in space in those scenes, because the bombs fall normally. If there wasn’t, the bombs at the top of the stack would accelerate more than the bombs at the bottom due to falling farther through the bomber’s artificial gravity, and the entire payload would collide and explode before reaching the…

Ah, but you see, nobody could see it because it was staying “above the radar.” Which is better than under the radar. Because that’s how radar works.

To my mind it was more that the showrunner spent season 6 sabotaging their baby, culminating in that scene, then left whomever The WB would choose to replace them to pick up the pieces next season.

As a kid, it never occurred to me that Hari Seldon might not be Indian.

I may have the timing off, since I didn’t subscribe to Hulu, but I believe the other studios didn’t start splintering off until Disney bought FOX. Before that, none of the studios had a majority share, so they were forced to cooperate. After Disney could dictate terms, the others quickly decamped.

Now that I’ve caught up on Final Space, I’m curious whether Lower Decks is actually the pale imitation the trailer made it out to be, or if it’s something completely different.