You correctly point out the potential weaknesses of the prestige tv format but I disagree with you about Picard. I enjoyed the nuances and the time spent. I watch a lot more British tv these days and I frankly enjoy people standing there talking to each other, which is what drama actually is. Human interaction.

It’s my favorite movie and all… But it was 40 years ago! 40 years! Why is everybody still waiting for another Wrath of Khan?

The internet doesn't hate Cris Pratt for those roles, they hate him because he is really a shit person. He hold some pretty backwards personal beliefs which came to light in recent years.

Yeah I don’t really care for prequels. And I noticed we’re getting like two more prequels, soon. And only one of them sounds good.

Discovery should never have been a prequel. It should’ve just started out Post-Nemesis.

Discovery doesn’t know what it wants to be and the one unique thing about it, a connected arc each season, feels like it’s becoming secondary to the continual attempts to reinvent itself. This season’s big threat feels internally inconsistent even by Trek standards and just comes across as a nebulous plot device to…

At that age, we read Night, which sounds much more mature than this, only in that it doesn’t add the element of unreality, but was still perfectly fine for 8th graders

Not Morning Spoilers-related (apologies everyone) but I saw this earlier this morning and was simultaneously angry, bemused and unsurprised -

I do agree; the closest thing to ‘fresh’ they’ve done, was the Kelvin-verse, but it was so tied up in homage to itself, that it didn’t allow itself to be compelling.

The most recent thing that Trek has done to make it break new ground—was TNG, back in ‘87. I get the nostalgia kick, and the desire to be ‘safe’, but,…

This is the best summation of everything wrong with this movie that I have read. Bravo.

Every time Scorpion was on screen, it felt like they were scenes from a completely different, much better movie.

I’d hope so, but they got rid of all the best known and most loved bad guys. We didn’t even get to see Katana take on Mileena!

The whole movie felt like all the characters were trying to stop the premise.

And just a creative team not embarrassed by the premise in general. MK is a fantasy take on a 70's kung fu movie. It really didn’t need this working class hero with a hard-scrabble family plotline, or long expository scenes trying to make the absurd lore sound more plausible.

Thank you. I was waiting for something resembling the tournament. I WISHED they adapted the Mortal Kombat X story and made it a sequel to the 95 movie with the same cast. 

Sure does - that’s a compelling piece.

I always figured that WWIII was why people in the 23rd-24th Centuries only listened to Gilbert & Sullivan and read Conan Doyle. Most of the popular culture from the 20th and 21st Centuries had been wiped out, probably due to nobody being able to recover the DRM keys. Only material in the public domain was saved.

You’d think that, but often these guys are so stupid they all sound the same by nature of getting the same talking points from the same reactionary social media accounts.

You need to go to better bars.

The more you try to prove you can put your own unique spin on this character, the more glaring the tropes become.