Wait, that was about racidm? Goddamn, that flew right by me. I just thought they were rich elitist assholes, and that Lindy was just a self-centered spoiled nepobaby.

It’s a weird episode where Lindy casually betrays her celebrity crush and rescuer and dooms him to a horrible death, then moments later the *shocking* twist is “oh, and this absolute psychopath is also dismissively racist.” Like that’s supposed to be worse than the murder?

I don’t want every episode of DW to be like this. But if they are going to aim for contemporary satire or allegory with a critical eye, I’d prefer it if they swing big and miss than not try at all. And this one landed for me.

Oh, you sweet, innocent child...

Google cant fix the problem because the problem lies in the underlying problem with LLM technologies. LLM AI’s use statistical probabilities to work out what word comes next, to do this they analyse large sets of words to draw statistical relationships between words. The more datasets, the better they are at mimicking…

Truthfully, the advances in technology that the show provides are more annoying than anything else. Instead of site to site transporting being something that happens in emergencies, people use it constantly and trivially to just move around the ship. Long range communication is no longer something that has to happen…

Same here. We started watching Discovery because we were excited for Trek to be back in a series format and we finished it because we were going to see it through to the end. But I don’t see any reason to start a show with such little promise unless it’s getting wall to wall rave reviews.

This will probably be one ST show I wouldn’t be watching unless it gets stellar reviews. I’ve got zero enthusiasm for it. I’ve been sort of hate watching ST: Disco. I don’t feel like doing that again.

Eh. Fine. Just can we please have a little less saccharin over-encouragement for new recruits/ensigns? It was really hard to watch those ‘You can do it. You did such a great job. I’m so proud of you.’ scenes in this season of discovery.

This show started as garbage and ended as bad, which I suppose is an improvement

The finale perfectly encapsulates why the Progenitor story should have been left alone. In the TNG episode the various factions believed that what they would find would be a thing, a weapon, a source of power, whatever. But what they found was an idea, a philosophical truth: we are all more alike than even we realize…

Just give us a frakking temporal cold war show with Wesley, Gary Seven, Daniels and Kore Soong running around in a mission impossible style series of Long Treks where they visit periods of time previously unexplored. Harriman’s Enterprise-B Tomed incident, Sulu’s Excelsior, Enterprise-C, Worf on the Enterprise-E,…

So to conclude, Star Trek Discovery was a bad show that never achieved its potential because of consistently terrible writing, incoherent plotting and weak characterization. It never really got better it just ran along the bottom going from mediocre to outright terrible, A real dud of a show that is pretty inessential…

That happened in November of 2016. Racism was not as popular then. It existed of course, and there were occasional open displays, but it was being slowly driven further and further underground. There was never any question that even most Republicans would publicly denounce open racism and wouldn’t openly court white…

Within my lifetime I’ve seen racism go from something to keep quiet among racist friends to something some people are *proud* of.

Considering the great reviews it’s been getting and the fact that the previous show Headland created was the amazing Russian Doll, I’m going to say no, I don’t think that’s what’s happening.

It would be great if people would stop using phrases like “reactionary culture war.”

We live in a world where someone who goes by “Jellybeanbrainss” can be be popular enough to make enough money to destroy $100k+ cars and come out profitable. And we have systems in place that make this possible and encourage it.

That first photo has a very “Oregon Trail” vibe to me. “You failed to forge the river. You lost half of your Red Bulls.”

With that title, I was hoping for an obit.