Yes, that worked really well!  But that was really just a case of newer writers (who “got” Cap a lot better) contrasting their Cap with Whedon’s Cap.  That it also worked to suggest a growth over intervening years was serendipitous.

I agree. Whedon never got Cap. And I think it’s honestly because, if you look back over Whedon’s work (and I watched Buffy and Angel all the way through, and am still a Firefly fan!), he has no REAL place for that kind of sincere earnestness. I don’t think he thinks someone can BE a hero without some snark and…

Cap lifting the hammer was even bigger, really.  But yeah, that whole sequence... I understand some of the problems folks have with some of it, but it’s an amazing sequence.

(You see, I did promise!)

I promise, I will make a point to go looking for your griping. So that we may gripe together, some more. ;-)

Hi, yes, I’m STILL angry at how badly they did TDIR. (That book in particular means a lot to me.)

(I don’t know about the padding. The man rides horses *really* well, and that really does wonders for some of those muscle groups...)

That’s pretty much what Mount said in the little film linked in the tweet far above, so here’s hoping!

Yeah, Inhumans utterly wasted him.  I loved every bit of HoW, and I don’t see how the poster above missed that pretty much everyone singled out his Pike as one of the highest points of Discovery’s S2.

It really was special, there was a lot of hype and speculation about it. (I wouldn’t say in pop culture at large yet, Trek had not yet attained that kind of stature; but in nerd circles, certainly.)

I also think it’s worth recognizing that in the mid 60s, there were a variety of goals on the part of people writing science fiction.  There’s something to be said about the idea that TOS visited so many earth-clone planets and other cultures with thin premises because the goal of the writing was to present a clear…

I’d plump for a selection of eps from the show too, carefully chosen, in order to give the movies context.  (Although even some of those will be hard for folks used to modern tv to sink into.  I mean, “Space Seed” is... something else.)

It’s worth identifying some of the best eps of TOS to have people watch, to get a feeling for its flavor and its history.  But although I’m old (I remember when even the ST TOS movies coming out was a huge deal), and have an immense fondness for TOS, I can admit that swaths of it are a hard slog.

They could have, and I kind of wish they did.  (Honestly, I’ll watch Anson Mount in almost anything.)  But we got what we got, and I’m still happy we get more of his Capt. Pike, since that’s the option we’re being given.

Same for me.

“Any of these characters could die at any time!” is, for me, a vastly overrated definition of “stakes”. Most shows we enjoy watching don’t truly have stakes like that — but the critical narrative has been overwhelmed by discussion of the few shows that do utilize it. It’s not the only way to do it and it’s not…

Seriously, “monster of the week”, “alien of the week”, “planet of the week” would be JUST FINE. 

As I mentioned in a comment elsewhere: I was too young for my parents to allow me to see JAWS in the theater (age 7; am amazed at those saying their parents allowed them to see it at 6!). But that didn’t keep me and all of my friends from knowing about it, buying the t-shirts, and the toys. I spent summers in a town…

You know, it’s a good question. I’ve always super liked Scheider. And it’s one of those things where, the few roles he had really stick out to me.

I think you also can’t dismiss the fact that for a lot of beach towns, June-August is when people make their money. It’s a short period of time in which you’re making a huge share of your yearly earnings. Especially in the 70s. So there would have been huge pressure on the mayor not to scare away business. And if…