You are one of those trekkies that make other trekkies feel embarrassed for and because of. You are so gung-ho in your worship of Roddenberry that you ignore a simple truth...

Yeah the twists themselves were revealed in a relatively decent manner, but they were telegraphed from the get-go. First, we didn’t get a fake-out scene with Voq dying, which would have been necessary to believe a main character can just vanish. Secondly, Lorca has been pretty aggressive as a Starfleet captain, which…

I don’t feel that is an accurate depiction of time! I would have seen it more as this... if time is a river, then Flint is a stream branching off the river. If Flint’s time doesn’t happen, the river dries out and Flint’s stream too. So if Flint would still exist he’d be a paradox... i.e. the steam would be flowing…

I presume what will happen is they discover everything is a loop and that according to nature they can’t win. That’s honestly my belief. However being the MCU... there is more then nature out there folks... there is magic. Magic that a Mr. Coulson currently owes something to... my feeling is there will be a mystical…

Everyone got the massive hint (or possibly red herring) that Mac is due for death’s door right folks? Future-past-YoYo mentioned to Future-Past May that Mac was gone. So somewhere between here and the end of Earth he dies...

that was my take away, but there are people here saying that isn’t the case and in fact its all one time-line we’ve seen so far... and that they fail to stop the Earth from being destroyed (that Fitz said a line I must have missed about how Daisy already saw the destroyed Earth)... and that the past-versions of the…

Sadly history is full of examples of ineffectual dictators -Hitler/Mussolini/Mao/Stalin were all ineffectual in certain ways, some of them vastly more than others. Now the systems we set up in this country to protect ourselves from dictators have been eroded/ignored/attacked (judicial system/law enforcement/voting…

illegal... in some states.

Listen dude. You are an idiot. The problem isn’t that people aren’t listening, its that there are a thousand different people to listen to. We aren’t less intelligent... we are more crowded with ideas and words. Doesn’t mean they don’t have impact though...

Not how I feel, don’t need to see that evil to be able to imagine it. I mean hell we see Trump every day... and he isn’t exactly charismatic and yet people follow him.

Not talking about that machine based storyline, but the year/weeks/months before Atreides lands on Dune.

BSG starts strong, but it goes downhill beginning with their Exodus from new caprica. That said, even the final season of BSG is pretty good scifi compared to the standard.

Several female friends of mine were early participants (by which I mean they facebook shared their MeToo experiences) of the MeToo movement but they don’t support it any more because they feel its gotten out of hand. Not the same thing as Mega’s point, but they are related. I myself am worried... at first I thought it…

MTV study on teen sexuality? That’d be about as accurate as a White House study on immigration.

To be extra fair... don’t besmirch B5! Even by today’s standards that show rocks. BSG is the one that came closest to really covering some of the darker aspects of B5. (DS9 was good too, my favorite Star Trek). Man... I watched it after the election and watching Captain John stand up to the tyrannical forces of…

You could have an entire season set in the universe of Dune before House Atriedes even steps foot on dune. Seriously, you could... it would just be setting the stage and the politics of all the houses (like GoT did) and the final episode of the first season could have them arrive on Dune... the planet at the center of…

You present this like history isn’t rife with examples? I love Dune but its not that complex. No more or less complex then a medieval Pope dealing with Venetian banking houses, a holy roman empire, and a french king for example. I always thought that Dune reminded me of medieval Europe in space. Star Wars was always…

You should take Shut the Fuck up for 1000 Alex.

small mercies.

Never going to get “cool” enough for most people. The EU for example started off wonderful... because the characters didn’t change, and everything interesting happened around them. But because of that it stagnated so they developed new characters (and that worked for a while, X-Wing series, etc) but then people…