There was a lot about this episode that was dumb (e.g., the Emperor acting stupidly just because, Lorca wanting to get in Burnham’s pants override common sense, etc.) and happened for action demands instead of smart plot (i.e., any excuses to see Michelle Yeoh kicking ass), but I still really enjoyed it.

Oliver viciously stabbing a dude right at the end of Felicity’s ‘Oliver is good guy’ speech is the kind of black comedy I live for.

HAHAHAHA......no. 90% of their lives revolved around men and the remaining 10% included saving the world.

There is nothing in this article or the linked article that says she had to fight. The linked article says “she made sure that she got paid the same as her Doctor Who predecessor Peter Capaldi” and clearly she did. Maybe she had to negotiate or maybe she just opened with “whatever you paid him, I want the same” and…

The best thing about the current Star Wars comics is that they actively embrace the prequels. The worst thing about the current Star Wars movies is that they actively brush away the prequels.

Matt Berry has been cast, which means it’s going to be amazing.

Charming Potato 2.0

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.

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.

I feel like the only person in the world who loved finding out that Snoke was a maguffin. I think it’s hilarious and delightful.

OMG easily the best AoS season opener, ever! I was scared, I laughed, I cried and, of course, I rolled my eyes at the usual AoS dumb moves that gets them into trouble. The difference is now those dumb moments don’t come off as much as plot movement tricks like they used to.

I really enjoyed the first three seasons, but the show lost me in the middle of the fourth.

I agree that the entertainment industry should probably never get on their moral high horse again about...well, anything.

This is the best possible statement he could release, in that he’s still just as much a piece of shit as he was yesterday. Which is a lot, but at the very least he didn’t go “oh they’re lying” or “I was drunk...and now I’m gay!”

I know it won’t matter to most people, but this is a really good statement and exactly how these things should be done.

Disgusting!

“there’s a show called Better Things, and that it’s not even the same show as the show called Stranger Things”

Sir, this is a Wendy’s drive-thru.