Does the machine simply shut off when you reach the end?  

I’d say there’s no big need for Trek movies as long as we have Trek shows. Trek movies have twice given the franchise a boost when there were no Trek shows.

Having turned 40 just over a week ago, yeah, I feel this.

There’s some minor loose ends, but I found the Season 2 finale very satisfying. I knew it was a miracle the second season happened at all, and after that episode I thought, “If that turns out to be the ending, I’d be satisfied.” 

There are currently people using seemingly “valid criticism” to support bad takes.

I feel the opposite way: There can’t possibly any valid praise for Star Wars!

“An 80-minute movie”—Oooh!

Those dark Satanic mills of music factories. Many a child has lost a limb in their devilish spinning cogs.

Bottom texting is the ‘24 version butt dialing.

I’m no lawyer but as long as they didn’t distribute before the new year I think it’s fine. I’m sure they probably called it some other name during production (the way Star Wars was Blue Harvest) to cover their bases though.

I’ve seen greenlit used in the production sense as well and it’s the word used by Martin in his blog. Maybe consider saving your complaints for more deserving targets?

That’s not a fucking “The Color Purple”: it’s a fucking Fruit Tingle, more or less.

Alan Moore: “Watchmen shouldnt be adapted to another medium because it’s specifically written to be a comic book story, and would not make sense any where else”

Zack Snyder: “Let me show you why!”

I feel sorry for people who don't want more Haley Atwell.

...Why on earth would Illumination make a short about the least engaging character from their first movie thirteen years later?

There was an old Dirt with a beard,
That most thought unkempt and weird
The birds came a-calling,
The smell was appalling,
Rest ye in peace, Norman Lear.

All hail Dirt! Dirt is LIFE!

I agree with most of your point. Though I do think that the biggest impediment was studios not trading the source material with enough respect. There was definitely a idea of “just throw some crap together and toss a super Mario title on it and we’ll print money from it.

that, sir, would be an egregious waste of weed...