Reminds me of shouting at Lorca through the screen last season. “What are you doing? Don’t start a fistfight with the star of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon! Are you insane? Use the gun!”

Thank you for responding to my post concluding that I’m probably going to give up on the show with the suggestion that I may want to give up on the show. Not sure I would’ve made that connection on my own.

The damage, such as it is, is done. The retool solves nothing. Great, now we can have the same crappy show, but with “tighter spandex and smaller tricorders,” to quote Rick Berman. This isn’t a perfect solution because it solves none of Discovery’s most dire problems.

Fourteen months later, and here I have the exact same reaction to Discovery’s season-ending anti-cliffhanger. What the hell was that?

I never said they did fire torpedos in the final timeline. I said the whole process only took a couple minutes in the initial timeline from self-destruct order to Number One reporting that Control had arrived, but when Burnham went back to the moment before Pike ordered self-destruct, Number One said it’d be over an…

Maybe they spent a lot more time between cuts blasting at Discovery uselessly, since Control arrived seconds after they started firing torpedos, which was seconds after the self destruct failed, which was seconds after the moment Burnham returned to and warned them the attempt was futile, but then they had an hour…

Maybe you can engage with the things I say (or, I’m sorry, the things anyone says) instead of questioning my (or anyone’s) bona fides in a lazy ad hominim attack (I don’t know how, “No, I say everyone who doesn’t think every episode of Discovery is amazing secretly hates Star Trek” is supposed to make you seem more…

If you’re going to be following me to different websites to whine further that I don’t like the things you like, the least you could do is stalk me properly and actually look up some of the nearly-two-decades-worth of opinions I’ve written online about Star Trek. For instance, on this very site you can read me…

Oddly enough, I thought that Discovery’s excessive, overly-expositional emotionalism worked really well here, though it wasn’t without the standard leaps in logic we’ve come to expect from the show. I’m hoping it was the hand of Michelle Paradise on the script, given that her previous credited episode, “Project…

President Luthor’s vendetta against Superman is getting really weird.

I love the Texts From Superheroes comic that goes with the idea that Steve could’ve picked up the hammer, but stopped immediately and just mimed trying when it moved because he knew it’d hurt Thor’s feelings if he actually did it. https://textsfromsuperheroes.com/image/180702457158

I’ve been hearing several people have decided that the writer was just delusional and there was no podcast and no Joe, because the story didn’t stand up to scrutiny. I just take that as another point in favor of shorter Twilight Zone stories. The most you have to work with the concept, the more chances you have to…

Yeah, the fact that the guy who actually stormed the cockpit and crashed the plane apparently wasn’t killed in the crash, or by the other passengers, seems odd. I mean, how many people could’ve seen him give the drunk pilot the door code? How many people would’ve even considered that’s what they were talking about?…

When they revisited the “Eddies, not Eddie’s” bit, I was expecting that to lead somewhere. Eddie had had the curse and had disappeared himself. Nanjiani was going to disappear Eddie or the entire club so he’d never became a comedian and wouldn’t have disappeared anyone. Something like that. Maybe it was the former,…

Ironically, I’d call “Little Girl Lost” required viewing if only because of how much the Simpsons Halloween sketch where Homer goes into the 3D rendered universe is based on it.

Dude, I’d be happy if they just got rid of the cuts to black for commercials that don’t exist. I don’t understand why, especially nowadays, more TV shows don’t do what the Stargates used to and edit each episode with and without commercial breaks, and using the continuous versions for home video and streaming. Sure,…

Yeah, I’d really appreciate it if YouTube conspiracy-theory fever-dreams about CBS, the owners of Star Trek, being legally prohibited from making “real” Star Trek weren’t spread around on the AV Club. It’s not like Roddenberry had to lose the rights to TOS to redesign the Klingons the first time.

His outfit looked a lot like the dress grays from the first two JJ-films, which I don’t mind them retconning into the Prime Timeline, because they look very sharp. Pike was also wearing the big flag-officer version of the delta badge in the vision.

My inference was that the time crystal would show you the most horrible thing that would happen to you in the timeline where you stole a time crystal, maybe as some sort of defensive measure. I know they’re not alive, per se, but evolutionary pressures can still act on phenomena to promote traits beneficial to their e…

I think this was the first time in a long while where season two Discovery’s plate-spinning, chainsaw-juggling plotting actually worked. I even got over the idea that Boreth, a planet orbiting a random star some guy happened to point to a thousand years ago, also is full of time-crystals, with the tidbit that the…