I’d assumed June would survive since she does in the book, but I suppose there is no reason she has to.  I do think it would fit the tone of the series if she were a martyr, especially given that she passed up her chance to flee.

If June becomes an armed insurrectionist I’ll eat my hat and cheer on season 3. If she is just hiding and making poorly-planned attempts at grabbing Hannah and/or is picked up and returned to the Waterfords, I’ll be frustrated.

As a ride-or-die life-long devotee of science fiction, I was always irritated by Atwood’s claim she doesn’t write science fiction because I think science fiction is nothing if not about the real. But I’ll give her a pass for The Handmaid’s Tale. She’s insisted that everything in the book is based on real atrocities:…

I felt like it was contrived to have June return to the Waterfords so many times in season 2 (after she ran away, and after she gave birth).  I hope she doesn’t return yet again.  Her interactions with the Waterfords are amazing, but don’t overdo a good thing. 

I was really frustrated by the end of season 2. June’s story is compelling, but her time in Gilead has run its course. Let her escape to Canada and split the story between June in Canada dealing with her guilt at leaving Hannah behind (and plotting to rescue her), the Waterfords and their new handmaid, and new…

If you’re on the west coast and into wlw ships, there is ClexaCon in Vegas in the spring!

FlameCon looks fun! Though I feel like an old-fart that nobody is naming any ships from 1990s or earlier (with the exception of Uranus/Neptune).

Whatever happened to those two? I haven’t finished season 3 so maybe they come back, but it seems like Lucy and General Lane disappeared off the face of Earth-38 when the show moved to CW.

In case you missed all the thinkpieces: it wasn’t that Lexa died that was the problem, it was how. 

Early in season 5, Shaw said he'd seen night blood before on some other planet. So I knew there must be other humans alive out there. Are they living on the new planet?

They showed them training with Gaia and Madi. And Jaha's adopted kid got shot in the second to last episode of this season.

I stopped reading the comics a few seasons back, but did read past the point where Xander and Dawn got together. I don’t know if that was Whedon’s endgame ship when he added Dawn to the series, but I have a hard time rewatching the series without wondering if Xander is grooming Dawn.  Especially when they bond in…

We were really close to having a Ronald Moore adaptation of Dragonriders of Pern on the WB about 15 years back.

This looks fine and all, but if they’re going to do shapeshifting, what I really want from Netflix is an Animorphs series set in the 90s. 

I saw a flag that said #Sanvers is Endgame at Pride earlier this summer, so I know folks are still torn up. I made it to ClexaCon this year and overheard folks saying that Floriana Lima left because she wasn’t happy with her contract, despite Chyler Leigh advocating she have a more prominent role in the series. This…

I would cry tears of joy if they remaster DS9. The quality difference is jarring when I turn off TNG and put DS9 back on.

Didn’t Floriana Lima leave Supergirl on bad terms? 

Me too. I happily paid for DSC (and promptly canceled when it ended). I will continue to happily pay for commercial-free new Star Trek content. I hope the CBS-All-Access naysayers get over themselves now. Who wouldn’t want a streaming service with new episodes of Star Trek every week?

In this particular DS9 episode, they blame the Cardassian design for the inaccessibility.  However, I don’t know that everyone would want to be “cured,” as many deaf people choose not to have a cochlear implant, for example, because being deaf is part of their identity and a community with a distinct culture.  I can…

What did you think of the Deep Space 9 episode “Melosa”?

For those who haven’t see it: this is a season 2 episode where Melosa, a Federation scientist from a low-gravity planet, visits the space station. She uses a wheelchair to navigate the station, though there are bulkheads impeding her full access to the station.…