Excellent post! Just one follow-up: why do you despite women so much?

She killed herself so Hawkeye could get a chance to get his “real” family back. - Christ, I barely have more than two living members of immediate biological family, and even I know that spouses and children are very much more “real” family ties than that which I feel for even my closest friends. Natasha’s sacrifice…

More Rome? Yes, please. Focusing on some random, ahistorical preacher in Palestine for some reason, who has no connections whatsoever to Roman politics apart from a brief provincial court dispute in season five? No, thanks.

“To be fair, there’s always Star Trek: The New Voyages. But you have to be prepared for some wildly inconsistent acting.” - I might well try that in spite of the dodgy acting, but the dodgy portrayal of the classic characters is just one bridge too far. It’s one thing for some of the best actors in Hollywood to put…

“So while it would be more ‘historically accurate’ to make the Disco ships and crew look and act like their TOS equivalents, the budget demands that they be more ambitious.”

Yeah, the real world is messed up enough without a fantasy show in which the Catholic Church is the good guys, thanks. :P

“Jane Eyre”

Corporate project in development still in development by corporation, says corporation.

Baby Driver is merely fine, and Hot Fuzz is seriously overlong.

Well, this sounds terrible.

And when will it all be on US Netflix? Two weeks after all the seasons end? Which might be sooner, due to the craziness?

If Casablanca could be artificially extended to 16:9, should it be? Not that these series are Casablanca, but, same principle. TVs (and, better yet, projector screens) these days are big enough that monkeying with original aspect ratios should never be a thing, ever. ;)

Spiffy - B’Elanna Torres and Seven of Nine in HD is the sort of happiness the world could use right now! :P

It’s ironic that TOS, having been edited as well as shot on film, was easier to upgrade to HD than TNG/DS9/VOY.

I don’t see why not. The second season, which indeed is really the second half of the first story arc, is just as good as the first, and concludes things satisfactorily. If you didn’t love S1, I doubt it’ll blow your mind, but if you enjoyed S1 as I did, you probably won’t be disappointed. Haven’t started S3 yet.

Hey “AV Club”, instead of foisting yet more headbangingly dull Newswires on us, how about using this Corona-downtime to actually review and discuss, y’know, AV sh*t? Take the excellent Babylon Berlin, the most expensive non-English language TV show ever made, three seasons of which are now on Netflix. And Zombie AV…

Wonder Woman’s script is no better than The Dark World’s, but, in fairness, we don’t know what the latter’s script was like when Jenkins was offered it. A 1910s American who meets a Greek goddess, and at no point asks her about religion? An immortal who’s read volumes and volumes on love, but doesn’t know what…

I just signed up for the trial through the link, and it certainly appears as though the offer is a month’s free membership to all of CBS All Access, not just Picard. And the commercial-free version, at that! Sweet!

So now an actual former Jedi who knew Yoda well is going to meet Baby Yoda? And Luke and Leia are still going to be kept in the dark about his existence? Or, does this confirm that Baby Yoda will be one of Anakin Solo’s victims?

Or maybe Snoke will kill it himself at some point. Stay tuned!

“Sherlock Holmes (we’re guessing it’s the goofy Robert Downey Jr. one, which is very underrated)” - Counterpoint: it’s crap.