“there is something to be said for the fact that Marvel jumped at the chance to replace a Black man with a white woman in its promotional materials.”

The more I read these reviews, the more I’m convinced that they got someone who fundamentally doesn’t *get* the series to write them. Like, imagine if you got someone who *really* didn’t get Star Trek to write new Star Trek movies, or someone who thought they understood Star Wars but wildly didn’t to helm an entire…

of course he’s everywhere...
He’s OMNIMAN

I have a great idea for a HGTV show. Take the recently renovated homes by The Gaines, Fords, Flip or Floppers, and the property brothers and have them inspected my Mike Holmes. If they pass, they get to keep their show. If not, GTFO.

Man. I love the show but I don’t normally read the recaps. Never again.

“Ape must not kill ape!”

Point well taken! I think you’re absolutely right, and Discovery obviously has significant fundamental flaws. I would argue though that Star Trek has to perform a juggling act that (most) other character-based series don’t, which is to balance action-adventure and character development AND win over fans who are…

I’m all for more Star Trek, but what I’d prefer instead of multiple Trek series is one Trek series with 26 episode seasons like in the olden days. I’ve enjoyed Discovery well enough, but I think one of the fundamental reasons it’s so divisive is that, with only 13-15 episodes to work with in a season, and with the…

don’t read the funny books so I don’t know who the hell Kang is except the OG badass Klingon or half of “Kang and Kodos” on the Simpsons.

I tell this story to the kids I encounter on the Internets.

I was 12 when Return of the Jedi came out. Sometime before the movie, I stumbled across a magazine where Anthony Daniels was interviewed. The interviewer asked him about Han Solo and whether he got out of carbon-freeze.

Daniels, “Well, I saw Harrison Ford on…

Sylvie’s crime according to the TVA was just existing.g. She wasn’t behaving as a Loki should and it reached a point that caused a branch.

“This is objectively the worst piece of media in human history. B minus.”

So last week’s adventure completely bereft of any narrative cohesion had a point but this week’s didn’t?

That’s where The Tomorrow War’s whiff of Christian-movie piety comes in

I figure Loki saying that is akin to Captain Jack Harkness’s immortal shenanigans, though with minimal camp. When you live that long, eventually you play every game.

I kind of hated this episode simply because it bored me. It’s a 2-minute concept gag repeated and stretched out to 22 minutes, and most of the variations aren’t funny or interesting enough to justify the exercise. The chaotic escalation doesn’t matter once you understand the premise that whichever version of the…

I do think part of the atmospheric change is that, 20-30 years ago, people were more willing to accept that the person telling the joke intended it to be a joke, and didn’t automatically assume the worst about a person based upon joke itself...that people could laugh precisely because they didn’t think the joke-teller…

I think scenes of Monica in therapy would have sidetracked the series. This was Wanda and Vision’s story. Monica was also using an all to familiar coping mechanism, of throwing herself into her work to avoid dealing with emotional trauma.

I agree with the reasoning. I know certain writers on here think Monica should have been the main lead of the show, but she wasn’t. If scenes need to be cut for timing purposes, anything that doesn’t involve Wanda and/or Vision is first on the chopping block.

It’s the difference between people who are playing the original version of the song REALLY well, and Prince who’s playing his version of the song.