The AV Club Year in Band Names 2018

I mean - ‘competent’ implies that they put in the bare minimum of due diligence in setting the Twist! up.

We have some intimations that Earth’s history was decidedly more warlike. Imagine that nuclear winter scenarios were more common in Mirror Universe’s history. Only a few generations of reduced sunlight would be necessary for allelic distributions to redistribute in the gene pool, even though that’d be at odds with the…

The giant glowing ball at the center of the Charon is what struck me.

I’m certainly one person that heard the theory before I gave it credence, and gave it at least some wind last week that I found the notion of this development disappointing.

1) Still metatextual.

That impermanence part demands extratextual knowledge. It seems the showrunners recognize the potential for blowback and fallout enough to position Wilson on the aftershow to dispel that. And that grief belongs to Stamets, not to Culber, until he comes back. Or at least we find out how he comes back.

“No True Scotsman”.

Since I’m part of that conversation, I guess I could stand to clarify my position here.

I think we’re coming upon the limn of fridging not being synonymous with a trite trope. I can think of cases in recent TV memory where a character gets arguably fridged technically - but isn’t necessarily diminished as a character. Say, Doakes, Laguerta, Rita, and Deb on Dexter. Or Dualla, Cally, Gaeta, Ellen on Battl…

The reason I hate this theory: the most interesting thing about Lorca is that he exists in a moral gray space. Writing it off as Mirror Lorca feels like an utter copout, depriving him of being among the most morally complicated characters the franchise has ever offered up.

Ultimately, I find the contentious problem of fridging being a question of consequence. For me, it’s too early to answer that here. Does Culber’s death narratively belong to Stamets or Tyler, moreso than giving Hugh his own agency? Even if Hugh was better developed than most victims of fridging, if he doesn’t get to…

TWIST: It was Rappin’ Jake Sisko the whole time.

The criticism from Force Awakens that Rey was a Mary Sue struck me dumbfounded over the hypocrisy that somehow, Luke wasn’t also.

I have zero doubt this isn’t the first X-Men/Star Wars crossover that was pitched at 20th Century Fox before the Disney buyout. And now, maybe it won’t be the last either.

I gotta ask.

An interesting way to put it.

All excellent points.

But how do you feel?