Preach on!

Much obliged for the recommendation. The Portuguese scenery and backgrounds make me think of Loustal, although clearly Pedrosa has other influences and his own style.

I’m white and I liked it. I didn’t think it was mean-spirited, I thought it was a very logical and pretty right-on tweak to the nose of the genre.

I love the subversion of what would be the traditionally black characters if it were a classic white TV action show...the wise father-figure friend who is both a man of the earth/tailor and also the science and tech advisor because we believe people of all races can be scienceish. And the two enforcers for the crime…

Just the opening alone sold me on this show in a way that none of the other DC shows have done in the slightest, and it wasn’t just the racial component of the story. Even the teen bathroom scenes feel far more real and/or relatable.

Yes, and I also find her character inspirational, when most characters that are meant to be inspirational (including many in the various Star Trek shows) tend to fall flat or just offend me in the clumsiness of their writing for that purpose.

I’d honestly rather see Ilium and Olympos adapted.

Well-said, and that describes my experience with it as well. It is legit gripping me for me in ways very few shows are. I’m rewatching Westworld finally and it actually holds up hugely in many ways...both as a story itself but also watching through knowing all the secrets its fascinating on entirely different levels,…

Why wouldn’t she have time to send a message? She wasn’t hiding that she was communicating with the Discovery and she’s the captain. She could have hailed the Disco a minute after Tyler/Voq was taken to the transporter room and explained everything she needed to inside of thirty seconds without having to explain the…

I just don’t care about those things if the story and the rest are great. In my head I’m fine keeping it as its own story experience. It’s like reading Marvel or DC comics as a kid...they are shared universes where the stories with the “same” characters are told so differently so often with such changes all the…

Lay off the meth. The Expanse is the jokest excuse for “intelligent” tv in ages. The acting is largely horrible with only a couple exceptions, the characters are ludicrously cliched almost across the board, the dialog is often laughable, the character dynamics are most often juvenile emotionally speaking and it…

Why would you reveal that in this thread? Why not send a PM or do what Beth did half an hour ahead of you where she posted a link to the answer? Was that not good enough for you? Some people have to scroll down to get to subsequent conversations.

Preach on!

I hear you. I feel like some of those things aren’t as important to me right now in the story, in that I feel like they aren’t as essential to where it is focused at the moment (the ship and its crew) and could be answered over the longer haul if necessary. From the beginning the heart of the story for me has felt…

I won’t poo-poo those criticisms, except to say that I personally have been sucked into the characters. I feel like it is a very sudden-moving story, but I don’t think it’s necessarily a failing as opposed to a different and acceptable type of story to tell. Very in media res and that’s part of why I’m so gripped.

It’s not the fault of the storytelling, which is fucking amazing with better acting, dialogue and gripping story than just about any space-based sci fi going on right now. It’s the fault of these so-called “fans” who don’t give a shit about those things, or at least subsume them to concerns that have nothing to do…

I wonder if it burns the STD producers that they are playing second fiddle to a Seth MacFarlane show in the space adventure genre?

Ha. I actually appreciated that. I was pretty young when those were on and man I must admit that I enjoyed them along with the comics, without distinguishing. Surfer vet is a fun take on Cap and appropriate to ‘70s tv.

No, The Orville really blows. It looks like beige puked all over uninspired and McFarland is one of the least convincing heroic and romantic leads I’ve ever seen. But hey, at least it’s well lit

I disagree. I have many complaints about VWs I have owned or driven over the years, but that Vanagon Syncro is one of the greatest vehicles my family and our friends at the time ever experienced. I am not exaggerating that, and collectively we have a shit ton of experience with a lot of cars. Whenever that car is…