I love the new Trek movies personally. The second one wasn’t as good as the first, but still great to me.

If we didn’t have Rob Bricken, how would we be able to tell when to be “appalled” at all the “problematic” things in culture?

Agreed. Yes, there was a bit of teasing deus ex going on. But my god! Sam’s death was telegraphed so clearly. His question about what happens if you can’t live with it, if you can’t stand it, shows why he had to die: like Beth, like Hershel, his emotional fragility and refusal (or inability) to adapt doomed him. He…

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