Huh. Up til now it seemed like the reporting about Dr. Who’s ratings was positive, so it’s weird seeing Giz call it ‘a ratings bust’. Also kind of weird to see 5.6 million viewers referred to as bad. Those numbers seem pretty good for viewership these days.  What kind of numbers where they expecting?  What were the…

Yord is not that; he is brash, quick to judgment, untrusting, suspicious.

Disagree. I really liked it. I’m not sure I liked how much of it felt like it was filmed in the volume, but over all I quite liked it.

I enjoyed the series. Wish it didn’t end. And I love exploring the 1000 years after kirk and Spock. Well, there’s more stories for this timeline. And I won’t be surprised if Michael and the crew of discovery will be making appearances in Star Fleet Academy.

1) Burnham just picking a fight against Moll was kind of funny, but was probably the only way to gain her trust, to speak Moll’s language, as it were.

I liked this season of Discovery. It was all ridiculous nonsense start to finish but I didn’t care; I jettisoned the cynicism and went for a ride in a comforting familiar sci-fi universe.

Why is there a kid in a battlefield? Did he get a special dispensation from logic? Why would any parent choose to take a child into war?

Yeah, especially after the Krakoa era, all of this feels very dated and boring.  You never know, but it’s hardly an exciting pitch, especially after the highs of the last era.

Putting Storm on the Avengers feels like a push, especially with the announcement coming right after Brevoort said that he didn’t put her on an X-Men team book because she automatically takes over whatever team she joins.

Wolverine’s statement that Magneto had started a war makes zero sense after they just spent almost the entire episode defending the mansion from sentinels. That’s like saying Ukraine started the war with Russia by fighting back after Russia invaded them. The other superheroes and the US government stood by while…

I finally realized why I could never get into X-Men comics for very long: it is a very depressing series! I know we’re supposed to see mutants as a stand-in for minorities, but the villains are still mostly humans, i.e. they’re us! It’s tempting to believe in Xavier’s dream where humans and mutants co-exist but we…

They said The Thing!

I never considered the fact that animals could also fall so very hard in to the uncanny valley.  Now I know.

I tend to read it not so much as advocating separatism, but more to show that the desire for it when you’re a persecuted minority is an understandable one. One of the faults of the old-school politics of tolerance is that it makes a lot of demands that the marginalized tamp down their anger and just be grateful that…

I actually liked Velma. I would like Scooby to actually show up though.

C’mon!  Only one of them is a nazi.  Exaggerate much?

Same. I saw non-spoiler exchanges from friends before I watched it on how “it just went from 0-100", but even that undersold the impact of the last ten minutes or so.

Emma and Moira were, at best, supporting characters in the comics during the animated series run. I believe Moira was “dead” and Emma was the mentor of Generation X. It wasn’t until Morrison’s run that Emma became a member of the main team and Moira was retconned to be one of the most important Mutants in history (or…

I remember when people would say things like “You can’t just do Dark Phoenix in a single film, it has to be set up over multiple films” and then this series is doing huge multi issue arcs in less than an hour and sticking the landing. Turns out, you can do streamlined adaptations of famous X-Men stories, you just have…

I believe the Watcher is in this ep as well? Curious as to the implications that might have.