On TNG they would have dispensed with the plot of these three episodes in the first act of one episode.

It wasn’t everything, but a massive amount of the Trek prop, model and costume stock was indeed auctioned off. If you look at basically any article on Memory Alpha, it’ll note when and for how much a specific costume from an episode went for, the same for the shooting models and so on.

You’re right - it doesn’t hold up to the amazing production design of previous eras of Trek.

From the DS9 episode “The Reckoning:”

Didn`t the Romulans use a clone of Picard to attempt a genocide on Earth using a supervessel that essentially rendered Starfleet`s best attempts at interdiction moot, and would have sterilized the planet while cloaked in minutes? That kind of thing, coupled with lingering mistrust during the Romulan`s dark period,…

Why the fuck does the super secret Tal Shiar need an even MORE super secret “hidden” cabal within it, which was, I guess, the entire reason for the Tal Shiar in the first place.

Did these guys ever, you know, restore sanity?

I use the word “agenda,” but that assumes a degree of awareness and intelligence that isn’t there. These guys have their narratives that they keep repeating to themselves and each other, like Captain Marvel was a flop (it made $4 million less than the last Spider-Man movie), or Jodie Whittaker is getting fired from Doc…

Or the author of ‘Wonder Boys.’ That dog would be (accidentally) shot in Episode Four, and Riker would bed a confused male cadet in Episode Eight.

Remember how in old Trek shows, they would use logic and science to study problems?

Yeah, these munches are strictly amateur hour. The latest story I’m seeing is that Chabon is leaving Picard over a creative rift, when a simple Google search would show that he and his wife are showrunning a CBS adaptation of Kavalier & Clay, his beloved, bestselling, Pulitzer Prize-winning novel that he’s been trying…

Hi Che! Are we going to see this as a bit on Weekend Update now?

It’s almost as if Doctor Who wants to appear progressive but is too scared to anger the Tory heads running the BBC. David Cameron gave John Whittingdale complete control of The BBC and it’s all gone a bit shit since then.

Joanna Wellick, Mobley, and Trenton’s sudden and seemingly impact-less deaths make me think this as well. It seemed to me those happened to lean harder and harder into the “We can undo it all” angle that Whiterose and Angela were pushing, so to cut that off, and then leave those threads just dangling, makes me think…

‘I’m not convinced Thorne or the producers understood the opportunity cost of their choices. It was like no one followed the thread to how—most prominently—erasing the daemons from so much of this world would make them largely incidental to the story at hand.’

I have 2 interpretations for the actual ending:

Hot take: everyone has been taking Star Wars way way way way way more seriously than they should have been since about 1993 at least, if not earlier, and everyone should shut up about it for a few years.

Ioruk is about to strike the final blow on Iofur!

As hacked up, rushed, and overly polished-looking as the movie was, I at least always felt that adapter/director Chris Weitz fundamentally understood the soul of the book, and was doing his best to present it faithfully. As I recall, the movie has lots of little moments that are spot-on, albeit maddeningly brief. And,…

Well, I guess if anybody will ever doubt that a fight to the death between two gigantic (allegedly) armored polar bears could be rendered dull, now we can point them out to His Dark Materials. It was if everyone involved in its creation got bored by the concept. And the entire bear society boiled down to just two…