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I heartily upstar this comment, but also note that comparing a show to Season 1 of TNG as a sign of quality isn’t exactly a winning recommendation, hehe.

But it does go to show how we used to give TV shows time to develop. Or at least kneejerk internet commentary had less effect on producers. Can you imagine if CBS

Just the fact that he had unexplained back wounds, slept with his phaser under his pillow and that his admiral ex-gf said something along the lines of “you’re not the same person anymore” or “I don’t recognize you anymore” was enough to send warning signals to my (admittedly bored by anything Burnham) brain.

I’d read the rumours pretty early on, before even the Voq stuff, but a few things just seemed odd (picking Burnham in the first place, his weird talks with her, his insistence with Stametts, the Admiral stuff, the alternate universe mentions in his office, and then the coordinates he punched in for the spore drive

The clue is that he’s a terrible person in a universe where terrible people don’t exist.

My complaint about all of this is it seems like the first season was largely built around two “holy shit” twists (I.e., Tyler is Voq, and Lorca is really Mirror Lorca) that one could see coming 5 episodes ago. I think they could have done better in not telegraphing all of this.

And on mobile I can’t make it all the way through a Jamboroo without a Walmart gift card phishing scam redirect.

The disappearing adds are the one’s that drive me nuts. I’m trying to read the damn article then all of a sudden I have to re-scroll because some add vanished.

34 blocked here, I’ll gladly close that fucking whitelist reminder a thousand times before I sit through one of those accidentally-rolled-over-this-and-now-it’s-fullscreen fucking bullshit banner ads.

Using the site on my phone is an exercise in futility.

Exactly. I don’t mind looking at ads (I sort of like them), I just refuse to wait that long for them to load.

The giant expanding banner across the top...the auto-play videos, the gutter ads. And to top it all off, the sponsored posts (which don’t get blocked). I’ve seen days where it’s three sponsored posts in a row on the scroll. And been tricked into commenting on them!

Deadspin and the other GawkerGizmodo sites are the reason I installed an ad blocker after refusing to use one for years because I wanted to support content on the internet. There’s “support” and then there’s “accept 11+ scripts loaded per page that slow the site to a crawl on a PC with 32 GB of RAM and a fast

It’ s not just the videos. Load the site without an adblocker and it’s fucking horrendous. The normal empty whiteness is encased in shit. My blocker is currently showing 31 blocked ads.

And guess who helped write the jokey copy for the pop-up asking you to turn off your ad blocker on this very site? That was me. Don’t turn that shit back on. We need the money to replace Marchman.

And guess who helped write the jokey copy for the pop-up asking you to turn off your ad blocker on this very site?

I tried to read several of Simmons’ books but only managed Hyperion (which is great). Terror lost me after about half of it, it was just too long and repetitive for me.

Yeah, the book really lost the plot in the latter third. Once the mystery is revealed to be completely bizarre (in a bad way in my opinion) I struggled to finish.

If it’s faithful to the book, it will be riveting until halfway through the final episode, when it will become complete unwatchable garbage.

Pens traded up to get the first pick (from third) to get Fleury in 2004. Don’t let that ruin your narrative though.