I think The Last Jedi is a good example of what the ST issues are as well. I say this as someone who actually really liked Last Jedi, but what it showed was that despite the fact there were 3 planned, greenlit movies at the time, there was clearly no written plan for how all three would fit together and it shows.

Beyond was pretty good, but they misstepped big time by burying Idris Elba under 50 pounds of prosthetics. Dumb Khan reveal or not, Into Darkness made a ton of money because Cumberbatch did a great “villain Sherlock” performance that the trailers could utilize.

There’s so much awful in that film. The two worst that stand out to me is the Enterprise falling out of orbit from the Moon to crash into the Earth because the engines turn off in the space of about four minutes, and taking one of the most iconic and moving scenes in all of Trek (Spock’s death), and doing a role-revers…

I maintain that Into Darkness would be significantly better if Cumberbatch was exactly who he appeared to be in the beginning of the movie instead of turning out to be Khan. As soon as that reveal happens it all starts to fall apart.

“ is better than any of the Next Gen cast’s actual movies.”

The best way to close out the Kelvin timeline would be to have Q show up, team up nu-Kirk and crew with a nu-Picard crew, and then have the whole dimension disappear to save the entire Star Trek multiverse.

But apparently they killed off Q in some unsatisfying way recently, so I guess that idea is out.

Into Darkness tried to leach off the work that The Wrath of Khan did while doing none of it itself (the reveal of Khan depended totally on knowing the first film). JJ’s attempts at lying about Cumberbatch not being Khan were so terrible no one believed him.

So it’s an HBO show about a bunch of people fighting over a throne, but it’s actually going to end before it gets terrible? What a novel approach. 

“When your mother Ungoliant was your age she had destroyed the two trees of Valinor. What have you done? Just hung out in your goth lair hoping for orcs and things to wander in?”

Ready to feel ancient? Back to the Future isn’t a film franchise of the last 30 years. The last of the three movies is now 33 years old.

My pitch:

If you asked me the question: “What major film franchise of the past 30 years is least in need of a reboot?” I would’ve said “Lord of the Rings.”

He’s ashamed all the way to the bank!

What makes you think Neil Druckman, creator of the video game it is based on, is ashamed of that fact?

A fungus that turns people into zombies.

It is the driving focus of the plot. The girl is the cure that's why everything is happening. Major characters are getting killed by zombies leading to major character decisions. 

Kind of the opposite of this show. Here they clearly have zombies, but refuse to call them zombies. In izombie they called them zombies even though they clearly weren't. 

I heartily recommend the Superman animated series episode “The Late Mr. Kent” It’s all about Clark Kent saving an innocent man on death row using his investigative reporter skills without resorting to superheroics. It's a great episode.

The iZombie zombies were much more like vampires.  They just ate instead of drank.

I find the avoidance of the word “zombie” kind of pretentious. Embracing the genre and the tropes doesn’t preclude you from doing something unique (which to the show and game’s credit is exactly what they’re doing)

But avoiding the term and any zombie-related label just smacks of posturing to me. And it feels like by…