Umm, if you’re saying you’re literally writing Star Trek itself (aka TOS, the original series) out of your (head)canon for Star Trek, that’s just insane. The logic disappears into its own navel. Without TOS paving the way, nothing that came later would have existed. It’s the original; the spinoffs are multi-generation…

Toward the very end.

Just curious, but why are you putting the original Star Trek off until last?

You must have way better ears than I do... they sounded completely different to me.

First and second points: true stuff. Third point: condescending much? If you have a theory about “what the Mirror Universe actually is” that explains why all the characters’ doppelgangers keep winding up in the same places at the same times (despite a radically different history) that amounts to more than “because the…

The scene wasn’t perfect, but consider the actual alternative you’re comparing it to.

We all knew Superman was coming back in this film. There was no surprise about that. What that scene was about was Whedon coming in late and filling in some lacunae to (A) explain how, and (B) have the characters at least briefly…

Huh. I actually think Affleck may be my personal favorite live-action Batman... and that’s *despite* the miserable writing and directing from Snyder he’s been saddled with. Nolan had a better take on the character overall, and his movies were certainly better Batman movies taken as a whole... but IMHO Affleck is a…

Not sure what point you’re trying to make by citing Batman Returns. It was gross and disturbing, not to mention nonsensical... basically Tim Burton over-indulging all of his worst filmmaking habits.

Entirely too many on-screen super-hero costumes these days seem desperate to distance themselves from the source material, in ways that just don’t make sense either aesthetically or practically. (It’s been a problem in the comics as well, certainly ever since Jim Lee redesigned most of the DC characters for the “New…

What’s with all the Whedon-bashing? Everything that makes this movie fun or watchable at all is due to his influence. All the dialogue scenes that actually humanize the characters and flesh them out a little are his. All the scenes where Superman does anything heroic or even, y’know, talks, are his. Take all that away…

Those words don’t mean what you seem to think they mean. First of all, Trump is a real estate billionaire from New York City. If that doesn’t qualify as a “coastal elite,” then nothing does. Second, Trump during his campaign (and his administration) has consistently and unrelentingly condescended to — and beyond that,…

I’m baffled that anyone could find this better than the previous week’s episode, but I suppose it’s just evidence that opinions are personal and subjective.

It blows my mind that anyone could like “Pickle Rick” without the ending. The rest of the episode was an over-the-top case study in demonstrating that Rick is, not to mince words, a remorseless mass-murdering sociopath. So deliberately over-the-top, in fact, that taken on its own there would be nothing remotely…

Wait, you actually *like* Elektra? She was the most useless thing about DD season 2, and certainly the most useless thing about Defenders. Her motivations never amount to anything more than “whatever the plot requires,” which is usually to get Matt to stop thinking straight. She’s boring.

Okay. Total tangent here, about the new Kinja interface.

Okay, he wasn’t going to lie. So, having publicly announced his oath to Dany... why couldn’t she then offer to release him from that oath? Simple and easy, and it would drive home her own change of heart from a few episodes earlier when she was insisting on it. Especially if she appreciated yet disagreed with Jon’s…

I don’t think Tyrion is jealous of Jon. I think he’s just concerned that Dany’s judgment might be impaired (well, more than it already is) by falling for Jon.

Could be, but it sure didn’t look like it. OTOH, the standard rule is that if you don’t see a corpse, the person is still alive. OTOOH, that obviously didn’t apply to Stannis, so go figure.

I am in the grays.

Totally agree. This was a solid episode. The season as a whole, though, was disappointing. It was a very mixed bag.