I still think a lot of that puppetry looks amazing. Pilot is an incredible creation, and Rygel has so much character for being a tiny little sack of rubbery skin. I’ve always been a fan of prosthetics and puppetry over CGI, especially in sci-fi. I want the aliens to have their own texture, not just a different shade…

YES! This is a great show.

Farscape had its ups and downs as a series, but it’s aged a lot better than just about any of its peers, and there’s a lesson there: a puppet may look goofy when you film it, but it will look exactly as goofy, no more and no less twenty years later, whereas 20 year old CGI compositing will look like complete and total…

“Don’t I get a cookie?”

Villain Pub from How it Should have Ended.

Yes, someone who has a different opinion of a TV show is “entirely nuts” and “wholly unfit to review television shows!”

So they finally give Airiam some backstory only to kill her off in the very same episode?

nothing about Jonathan Frakes?

Anyone else catch that old style Kirk Maneuver Burnham laid on Airiam in the middle of the fight? Straight up fall-on-your-ass-double-jump-kick.

Wow. Zack wrote a highly positive review of Discovery, while io9 posted a review that was less than effusive. Does that mean all the usual whiners will be over there bitching about the reviewer instead of hyperventilating over here? I was so looking forward to the latest weekly installment of “Zack Handlen is a mean…

Actually I liked the throwback to “The Cage” at first. It seemed like a neat bit of chutzpah, the show boldly saying “yes, we look different to the original series, yes, we know our Spock doesn’t look like Nimoy, now let’s get on with it”. Unfortunately it turned out that was not the reason they did it, it was there…

God Melissa Fumero is just the best and the cutest. Her “Ohhhhh nooooo” was amazing. And, well, that dance off.

Was it even necessary for Spock to go to the Talosians at all? Vulcans are telepathic. There’s also the Aenar. Betazoid too, but I’m not sure if they’re part of the Federation yet.

I found the teaser recap irritating because, well, just its existence is in that same liminal space Discovery has been living in all season (and the end of last season) where it has a love/hate relationship with its own history. When it isn’t trying to reinvent Star Trek, it’s worshipping Star Trek, with no consistent…

I’ve seen a lot of dumb TV in my time, but this really deserves some sort of award for combining ambitions of gravitas with mind-boggling stupidity.
I mean, alright, hanging the whole story on Spock because he’s so loved and iconic he’ll draw in the crowds is a well-worn fan-baiting Trek tactic, but to do so and then…

my hope of hopes is the Red Angel has something to do with Red Matter and comes from the Kelvin timeline, and Spock is being driven mad by visions of Vulcan’s destruction.

The Talos IV thing made my eyes roll so hard I could see my brain.

Maybe Pike will use the Guardian of Forever to wipe out Burnham when her contract expires?

This episode brought a new depth to the Any/Holt relationship for me too. Her early season obsession with his approval makes more sense after a mentor betrayed her. He’s not just as straitlaced as she is, he’s also safe for her cause he’s gay, so Amy can trust his approval doesn’t have an ulterior motive.

Every episode of this show feels like it moves at warp 9, but with a drunk Ensign Crusher at the helm. Except for the Beta Quadrant episode (which I had hoped would be a turning point) Disco never seems to give the audience a chance to relax and simply immerse themselves in Star Trek for a minute or two.  The show is…