My friends only point was if I don’t like Discovery, and the hypothetical Pike show is of similar quality, that could solve the prequel problem of “If the backstory is much more interesting, why didn’t you tell it in the first place instead of wasting our time with the original?” Potential answer: Pike’s adventures…
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Reminds me of something a friend of mine said when I was talking about how I was lukewarm on the the idea of a Pike prequel in part because if they continue to crank that shit as they have been (Spock already had “saved the universe” on his résumé in the first episode of TOS), it’ll overshadow Kirk’s Enterprise as the…
Yes, but David Mack is the one who said it wasn’t related to the books the first night “Control” was mentioned on Discovery. And as for him writing the first DSC tie-in, remember that Desperate Hours has also been overtly and comprehensively contradicted by Discovery’s second season. Whatever we hoped for in this…
On a related note, I’m getting more and more amused by the fact that, as soon as Control on DSC explicitly demonstrated it was different from the Control from the Trek novels (don’t know what the Stellaris taxonomy would be, but book!Control was obsessed with perfectly protecting humanity from everything, including…
I’ve got a bit of a “When are they going to get to the fireworks factory?” thing with Calypso. Since they brought up time-travel, AI, and now Gabrielle being based nearly a thousand years in the future all seems to add up to Discovery having to do some sort of slow-speed rendezvous with Gabrielle. I can see a couple…
Oh, long time ago. I think they got marooned on an island or something. Milhouse became James Dean because he thought they were dead? It was weird.
Bart, having been bribed with a primo gaming setup by Homer in lieu of actual parenting, immediately grows a sullen little preteen mustache.
- James’ sister saying J’onn’s name “sounded cool” is a bit weird since the show pronounces it mostly like the name “John,” unlike other adaptations which slurr the word or have an emphasis to make it sound alien.
I just never got past Dismaland. For God’s sake, it was 2015. Real Disney Land was more subversive and satirical in the moment than Shitty Disney Land.
There’s a lot of cross-over in the Chicago comedy scene, though. It’s more of one of those five-circle venn diagrams.
It sure is!
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Whereas I always called it “Apples to Apples: The Good Parts Version.” When we played A2A in college, the game always ended up too long, because we were all tired, but we were still chasing the dragon of that one serendipitously profane and witty play that had us on the floor earlier in the night. With CAH, it’s all…
Yeah, who do they think she it? Joe Tormolen? Robert Tomlinson? Sito Jaxa? Ahni Jetel? Lyndsay Ballard? Joe Carey? Enrique Muniz? Everyone in “Empok Nor”?
“Oh, now they rip off Doctor Who. Couldn’t have done that for the recap last week?”
- I wonder if they’ll take any storylines from the books or just the ideas. Control as an idea made for an awesome series of books so it’s exciting to see it translated. Since the probe is now apparently Section 31 tech from 500 years in the future, I wonder if they can decipher any of it and find out about Bashir and…
Yes, the good old “A Death in the Limelight.” I think it would’ve felt a little less weird if we’d seen Airiam off the clock once before or participating in some banter; before this episode, I didn’t think she had human emotions, but I guess she’s just all-business at work and only lets her panels down during her…
I cheered when Burnham knocked Airiam down by boxing the ears she doesn’t have, just like boxing the also-earless Gorn worked. Now that’s the kind of fan service I can get behind! I don’t need a whole episode of the Talosians standing around looking (but not sounding) like Talosians, just some ridiculous…
When I saw this on Twitter a few days ago, I thought, “This feels like something Banksy would do.”
I’m with Zack. I’d been really unhappy with the way the show was developing in its second season, but this episode was excellent, and I think it bodes well for the future that the first credited script from the incoming season 3 showrunner is such a jump in quality. (According to IMDB, she’s also writing the last two…