I’d be happy to be done with it. The first 30 minutes of Homecoming are maybe my favorite depiction of Friendly Neighborhood Spiderman. Then the rest of the franchise pivots into The Adventures of Iron Man Jr.

This is the first article I’ve seen about this thing that mentions how kind of... gross it feels.

“Well, IGN says the latest Call of Duty sequel is 10 out 10 and has a little bit of fun for everyone, any critic that disagrees is clearly not doing their job right”
-A lot of fucking idiots

I mean CR was the last Bond film to have a great theme song and not a funeral swan song. They need to stop casting mopey gits as the Bond Theme Singers and instead go back to doing songs like A View To A Kill, The Living Daylights, The World Is Not Enough, Licence To Kill and You Know My Name y'know?

That use of the rake gag is perfect.

No, it’s not just because it’s an anime. Whoever shot, edited, or directed the sequence didn’t have a clue how to make humans look good in an action sequence. None of the actors were moving with any sort of speed or precision, save the one shot of Cho doing a tornado kick.

Like, it feels like the video footage shot…

Yeah particularly at the beginning of the opening like 13 seconds in, like you know they just had John Cho run one time in front of a screen, probably in a room with not enough space for him to get all the way up to speed, rather than the anime’s tracking of Spike’s run cycle.  Looks bad.

Looks pretty good, but I still prefer the original:

My first thought is... I don’t like it? From a pure motion design standpoint it feels like it’s awkwardly straddling the 2D graphic->3D photoreal divide. The stuff that’s most directly ripped from the original title sequence feels the worst, because it loses the dynamism that comes from hand-drawn, hyper-kinetic…

What’s funny is I was one of those guys who signed an online petition in hopes of bringing Family Guy back when it was cancelled but when it did eventually return, I checked out after about 2 more seasons.

Disparaging the reboot is a rebootable offense!

Corny as it is, couldn’t help but smile at “Are you crazy?” “No, I’m mad.”

“Like most Twitter drama, it was a lot of noise made about something that doesn’t really matter”

“In some episodes, the Lower Decks “rookies” were incredibly stupid and juvenile (as well as unprofessional, which begs the question of what the hell the Academy does when it “trains” these people) while in others, an absurd amount of graphic violence and death was used for “comic effect.””

Lower Decks ended up being a better version of The Orville (benefitting greatly from not having Seth McFarlane mugging around, IMO), in case we want to really go down the meta rabbit hole.

I was worried Lower Decks would turn out to be nothing more than Star Trek: Rick and Morty but it’s been a pleasant surprise—arguably the most recognizably Trek of all the streaming-era Trek shows. (Funnily enough, fellow pseudo-sitcom The Orville is the only series that gives it a run for its money in that regard.)

Counterpoint: “wacky hijinks involving obscure aliens and nerdy callbacks from previous Star Trek shows” is precisely what I want from a Star Trek cartoon, and Lower Decks’ affection/reverence for the canon at least puts it a cut above the other NuTrek series.

Season 1 was great, and it had a fantastic battle right at the end.

Yeah, I get your complaints, and as an old-school Trekkie there’s no denying that ‘Lower Decks’ takes the lore in an unclear direction - but at least it’s entertaining and funny at times, definitely compared to the uninspired, character-demolishing dreck of ‘Discovery’ and ‘Picard’. From what I’ve heard and seen about…