I think this is another example of a basic theme running through io9 for a while now — that its staff members are openly contemptuous of the very topic they are nominally covering, and the very audience they are nominally serving.

I think the real story is that io9, a geek culture site, hired people who hadn’t seen Blade Runner. I’m pretty sure you get your geek card revoked for that. ;)

I don’t care what anybody says, I still wanna tear my goddamn shirt off to this music. And I did when I got married to Mrs Bantaro last November:

My heart breaks for Sonequa Martin-Green. She’s a fine actress, gets a lead in a super-high-profile series, and they saddle her with an Idiot Character. WTF were they thinking? She runs off the bridge in a crisis situation to call the guy who was her schoolteacher when she was 8 and ask for help. Assaults her captain…

- Among the worst acting of any series.

The writing is just flat out horrible, the special effects are “very special” (I thought we’d learned lens flare is just digital poo smeared on the screen) but I keep coming back to the uninspired writing this shite is worse than most fan fiction.

Just go the HBO route - wait til all the episodes are on All Access, get a free month trial, watch the whole thing and then cancel.

One important thing you forgot to mention:

i was gonna go with ‘sad space whale man’

The Kelvin Timeline redesign and the terrible Discovery redesign and ridge explanation should go straight to Grethor.

What on earth are they doing to the Klingons? They look like the creature from the black lagoon...

Seconded.

Vikander doesn’t look like this

Do not see it. It appears to be a very positive image, not focusing on boobs, butt, or waist measurements. So, now necks must be measured.

Also, Klingons are purple now.

Discovery would “ditch” Gene Roddenberry’s infamous “rule” that members of Starfleet shouldn’t be in conflict with one another—

“I’ve got a bad feeling ab....”

Well, if worse comes to worse, we’ll only have one decent Star Trek show to watch. It’s called The Orville. And before anybody gives me any grief, I defy any of you to go back and re-watch Encounter at Farpoint or The Naked Now or (most especially) Code of Honor and tell me they don’t suck. None of us could have…

I’m just not digging Flash’s costume. I don’t get it.