“The ‘hero’ learns nothing and comes back from it absolutely unchanged” is a real weird read of a scene where Sisko starts letting go of his grief and anger at his wife’s death because of Prophets, but hey, whatever flavors your haterade!

Yeah. I’m sure the fanbase is goddamn exhausting, but let’s not pretend that season 4 is unfairly maligned due to unfair expectations. Season 4 is maligned entirely fairly, because it’s full of bullshit.

I think a good rule of thumb for this kind of place (i.e. one that straddles the bar-that-serves-food/restaurant-with-a-good-beer-list line) is whether they have a kid’s menu. If they do, then they clearly expect that people will sometimes bring children in.

Tomescent

Chi Chi had a 100% correct read on Milk this episode: “Everybody praises him for being a hot guy, and I think he thinks that kinda translates into being hot Milk.”

I was thinking Klarion the Witch Boy, an only slightly less ludicrous reference for them to be making.

And yet it’s the thing that finally pulled me out of the grays!

*sigh*

Alexander Siddig is main cast this season, not a guest star. He’ll be back.

It’s not in the same universe as the CW shows.

Would he have, though? The point of killing Alex seemed to be just to fuck with Bruce’s head by making him feel responsible for Alex’s death. If Bruce had handed over the knife and Ra’s had killed Alex anyway, Bruce wouldn’t have felt the same level of guilt.

Þe idea þat spellings should ne change over time sy dumb als hell, sorry. Hwæt thou art really say’ng sy þat thou want words to beth spell’d hū THOU learn’d þem. Dōn ne pretend þat thou art some manere spell’ng purist when thou art ne even us’ng þorns.

Ha, that’s what I always think whenever I hear this argument. The way movie-making currently works is way more of a hurdle than any bullshit about “PC culture.”

Honestly, you may as well just start with season 3. There’s some good stuff in season 2 (notably BD Wong as Hugo Strange, a casting that’s so good that I’m a little angry it was wasted on Gotham) but IMO season 3 has the most bonkers for your buck. And it’s not such a continuity-heavy show that skipping the first two…

Yeah, The Orville looks like Star Trek fanfic by people who legitimately love TNG, even if they’re not as talented as that show’s creative team (though let’s never forget that TNG season 1 mostly sucks). Discovery looks like Star Trek fanfic by people who want to improve on the “lameness” of the franchise up til now.

Extrapolating from my own feelings about RP1, maybe it’s because people reading about stuff they really care about want more commentary about that stuff than “this exists!” Like, what value does “and then I recited all of Monty Python and the Holy Grail from memory because I’ve seen it 1,275 times” (not an exact quote…

I think it’s a 50/50 chance that Katie Rife doesn’t know the difference vs. the illustrator not knowing.