I mean, I can see SNW Chapel getting hopped up on Murder Juice and singlehandedly slaughtering anybody who tried to take over the TOS era Enterprise. Klingons, Khan’s followers, rando aliens? Dead, all of them. 

That’s definitely a worthwhile interpretation, although SNW Chapel is for all intents and purposes an entirely different character from TOS Chapel.

True, but it’s hard for me to reconcile Jess Bush’s tough as nails, no bullshit Chapel with the wet blanket version played by Barrett on TOS. Or the Xenomorph-style Gorn with the Godzilla suit reject in “Arena.”

Maybe, though the Gorn are still enemies of the Federation in TOS (“Arena”).

I enjoyed the episode, but I couldn’t help but keep thinking about how almost none of the characters in peril could die due to existing continuity with TOS.

Kinda sums it up:

The upside is that people are finally realizing what complete shitheads these CEOs are. They’re not genius philosopher kings, they’re just greedy assholes, and they don’t know how to create anything of worth beyond shareholder value. Hence the sudden, panicked interest in AI. 

This was indeed the main problem with Lester. He didn’t seem to “get” what Donner and company did with Superman and decided to go his way.

Wizard Magazine was your dedicated source of all things Spider-semen back then.

Yep, this is just the dead hand of fandom wanking off, as usual. 

Truth be told, I’m enjoying S2 a lot more than S1. I don’t have anything against S1, which is great TV, but I read the book as a teenager back in the ‘90s and I’d had a very specific vision of what the characters and events looked like buzzing around my head for almost thirty years. With S2, there’s less of a burden…

Silicon Valley and VC culture convinced Hollywood that infinite growth was possible, and now it’s gonna kill their business model.

It was the golden era of psychotic heroes and one of the first post Dark Knight stories featuring Superman and Batman, I recall (though I couldn’t say which issue of what series it was in, only that I believe Kieth Giffen was the writer and possibly also the artist) had the two characters being total enemies... at…

Frankly, I’m still a little pissed at the way the character of the Peacemaker has veered so wildly from the way he was originally presented way back in the Stone Age when he first appeared in the Charlton books. Frankly, I preferred that version of the character even if he might be more of a “boring” pseudo silver age…

Sadly, it is not the insane and amazing Nick Cave script from twenty years ago, which had Maximus being resurrected by the gods and becoming an immortal, and ended with him as a general at the Pentagon.

Interesting thing is that Scott almost made Dune as well back in the early ‘80s, but he ended up doing Blade Runner instead.

He’s filming Gladiator 2 right now. (Last I heard he was shooting crowd scenes with non-union extras to get around the strikes.)

Yes, that was my point. 

Wow, it’s almost like if you don’t obsess on opening weekend grosses or short theatrical windows, movies eventually find an audience.

I was hoping for a stealth revival of Arrested Development myself.