Carlin’s last few specials were like 70/30 jokes to opinions.  But his opinions weren’t boring.  Preaching to the choir maybe but he was well beyond your standard liberal at the end of his life.

Yeah, Seven of Nine’s outfits were super progressive. 

I’m at 12 minutes and done. If I weren’t told this was Carlin I wouldn’t guess it. This doesn’t have his cadence, his rhythm, his activist spirit.. nothing. A voice is like a fingerprint and AI might be able to make a ‘stamp’ of that but a voice is also a song and songs, imo, come through us, not from us. That’s an…

Yeah, this is monstrous. Some guy writes ‘comedy’ and says it’s an “impersonation.” Dudesy, you’re no comedian. This guy is an Evil Clown and, in the future, the clowns won’t be telling you it’s an “impersonation.” They’ll just steal it.

They call it Congress because it’s the opposite of progress!

My dad spent a lifetime perfecting his craft from his very human life, brain and imagination. No machine will ever replace his genius.

Carlin was every thinking person. He was just one of the few who put himself out there. And he paid for it. I don’t find his voice at all hard to pin down . He was excrutiatingly direct. The things he said finally ceased to be funny but we didn’t care because the truth was more important. We didn’t need laughter to…

Let’s call it NI: “Non-Intelligence”

I'll never forget cArlIn’s classic bit “The Seven Dirty Prompts You Can’t Enter Into ChatGPT”

Beyond also had the benefit of coming after Into Darkness which was Not. Good.  So expectations might have been lower.

 Beyond was decent because JJ had no involvement and Simon Pegg who wrote the script actually likes Star Trek 

“(1) nobody has ever been particularly fond of his take on the material”

I liked some of Picard as well, but it consistently managed to take whatever goodwill it generated and flush it out an airlock.

Ugh, that episode of SNW was awful. Except for Chong who could actually sing without ridiculous levels of autotune.

Why am I afraid that we’re going to get a movie length Star Trek musical?

I liked some of Picard , and the Kelvin movies are ..ok I guess 

Picard S3, for all the love it gets, is really just the same shit as the first two seasons, only this time with characters we recognize. It’s the same morally bankrupt deconstruction where violence is confused with being a badass and plot twists that really don’t make any damn sense. If you take away the nostalgia, is…

Hard agree here. What SNW and LD are doing are fantastic examples of what Trek is supposed to be. The last 4 movies (and Picard) have been nothing but hamfisted fan service with no solid connection of what Star Trek actually is. Give me more of that and stop trying to make JJ Trek a thing.

I don’t know if I could bear watching this.