No, they specifically said they decided not to have a Mirror Universe Hugh Culber, because they wanted the character to remain morally pure.

That said, they also hinted that we haven’t seen the last of him, so that gives me a little hope.

Cruz also said on After Trek that his favourite scene in his entire career is still to come in the series, so presumably we’re going to see a flashback, his mirror version (EDIT: or not, they say later in the piece that they decided not to have Mirror Culber show up), or some other alternate universe incarnation.

I think people of color are often killed unnecessarily killed in a lot of different shows. I’m neither gay nor a person of color, so take my opinion with a healthy serving of salt.

I find these comments hard to navigate (so I’m not quite sure what trying to contribute is/does/etc.) but I wrote much the same thing as to why it looks like he was killed: because of who he was as a person.

I was watching AfterTrek, and apparently one of the writers/showrunners is openly gay. According to him, he killed Culbers because the doctor was intelligent enough to piece together what happened and confronted Culber, and that’s why he died. So I don’t know if I’d call it fridging, because this was, at the very…

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…

While the doctor getting his neck snapped was incredibly upsetting to me, I object to calling it “fridging” because it’s not like he was killed just as a motivation for another character or viewed as disposable. It was upsetting because I already saw him as a dimensional character in his own right I didn’t want off…

Excellent choice.

I keep hoping that not announcing replacements means they’re still trying to get Fuller back.

Given the success the show had, I guess I’m shocked at how Starz is handling all this. You’d think they’d want to keep their media darling of a show going in order to compete with the likes of HBO or Netflix. I’m guessing they didn’t learn from that early season of the Walking Dead, where there were like 6 zombies and…

No Bryan Fuller? Me too - I am also leaving the show.

US Queer as Folk gave us the gays of Pittsburgh in the early 2000s, so...close enough?

Just FYI, Armitage was the name of the protagonist in The Dunwich Horror, by the notoriously racist HP Lovecraft, in which the family scion turns into a monster and terrorizes the village. It’s one of the only Lovecraft stories in which the hero actually defeats the monster.

I think she was trying to be helpful, then realized how dumb she was being and apologized.

FINN + CRYSTAL FOX OTP4EVR.

Is Last Jedi really polarizing to people who aren’t on Twitter? This controversy strikes me as bullshit.

I think they meant Poe and Finn, but since they are idiots, I wouldn’t put it past them to mean Luke and Han.

Huh, these things you hated were some of my favorite aspects. It’s almost as if our opinions are subjective...

Why does Snoke’s backstory matter? We don’t know Obi-Wan’s backstory, and it makes not a whit of difference. Ditto for Yoda. Every i and t does not need to be dotted and crossed.

Ugh.