I still rather enjoyed this episode (increasingly amused too by the “Spaceman Spiff is going down again!” motif) but yeah, a bit worried about the creeping in of wider continuity and “ah well see to understand that, first watch 12 seasons of uninspired CGI animation, then...”. But I actually didn’t know any of the…

Incorrect; the only Star Wars that's canon is the Thrawn Trilogy.

The whole "endangered species" thing was already hilariously overblown, Frog Lady refers to it as her "family line", so it's more like "but Susan if you don't get married I'll never have grandkids!"

Rarely have I wished as much for the secularization of a character.

Don't remind us!

You should do yourself a favor and watch “The Inside”, if you’re going down those sorts of roads during quarantine. A weird but I think fun combo of “serious murder crimes” and the more genre folks of the time (both in terms of writers and in terms of actors), that time being the early- to mid-‘00s.

For one, that’s just not how it works. If a vote for someone other than Biden is a vote for Trump, then isn’t a vote for anyone other than Trump a vote for Biden?

If it did, Twitter would be a much emptier place!

Ironically that also applies to most major party candidates!

To be fair, it’s not all Trump’s doing, the cartoonish evil of the profit-centric American healthcare system is pulling a lot of the weight there too. Cool that the main person running against Trump thinks that system doesn’t need any major reforms! Whee!

The original managed a lot of horror precisely *because* the characters were deeply affected by what they saw and experienced and couldn't move on. I expected a lot to be lost in translation here, but even *that*? Yeesh.

Hell, it even seems to lack the style of the original two seasons of Utopia! Can’t imagine it being the same without Critobal Tapia de Veer’s soundtrack, simultaneously quirky, funky, and deeply horrific. Or the striking visuals! They’ve gone no substance but also forgot the style.

Well, that combined with mistreatment of staff that has them in a perpetual state of frantic overwork!

I give Steam exclusives more leeway personally because they support Linux and macOS in addition to Windows. Hell, Valve has put a lot of effort into helping upstream projects and seamlessly integrating them into Steam such that these days even Windows-only games on Steam actually become de-facto Linux games without…

Damn, the toxic Biden Bros are really turning me off of this ticket.

I mean, that sounds a lot less dangerous than fighting wildfires . . .

She definitely did not immediately disown the argument at the time. I remember reading it in the news and being appalled; maybe she’s such a hands-off boss that she doesn't even notice things at that level, but that sounds like a problem inandof itself then.

The list of things Harris is surprised her office did keeps getting longer; at a certain point isn't that just a different problem rather than an excuse?

Biggest laugh of the first episode for me was actually the mention of Cetacean Ops. My bar for Nu-Trek (hell, for every Trek after DS9) isn't very high, so if they just keep mentioning dolphins from time to time I'll be satisfied.

Yeah I wouldn’t at all be surprised if it was worse. But it’s incredibly interesting in the abstract; how much of a different movie can be made when the production values are so high? Rare we’ve seen something so special effects heavy that gets a full revamp like this. And if it turns out awful, as it's likely to do,…