So the problem with a curated list is “who do you curate for??”

I prefer the “shorter” article, but I wonder what’s more effective for actually gaining interest, the wall of text or the cover images. And, as much as I like the list of all the books, I wonder if a curated list of 8-10 would be better for getting folks interested in those books.

That, and he still moved like an old man regardless.

Right?  Like I watched Bosom Buddies and Santa Barbara back in the day so it’s just EEEEEEEEEERIEEEEE.

Based on what we see, I imagine that’s just in the first 15-20 minutes.

I can respect a villain whose entire drive is “I’m going to make my entire house a murder-puzzle-box explicitly to fuck with Mormon missionaries.”  Like, it’s niche, but let him cook.

I mean, I can get behind “Overdramatic teenager” carrying a LOT of the weight here. She can’t JUST abandon her baby at the church, she has to put on a show.  I totally can accept that.

For me, I think the big thing is the Dramatic Pointing was the step too far? Like, I can buy Ruby’s mother wearing something that obscures her identity when abandoning a baby, because, yeah, you don’t wanna get recognized on cameras. And add in the idea that because the Doctor (and Sutekh) weren’t close enough to see…

Right?  For me the only real “twist” of “Dot and Bubble” was the “Wow, they actually made it text, I didn’t think they’d actually do that.”

I don’t know if I completely agree with that, but I would agree that it’s the first one that is interested in Batman as a character.  (In counterpoint to the Nolan trilogy, which is interested in Bruce Wayne more than Batman.)

Burton is one of those directors who never really seems to care if the script is good or not as long as he can get some cool images or setpieces out of them, and Batman is definitely one of those Burton movies where the sets or costumes make up for the pacing or writing.

There’s also a whole thing where, for the first third, Knox is essentially the main character so everything with Batman can be a mystery, and then the movie forgets about him once we shift focus to Bruce/Batman. And, yes, Jack Nicholson doesn’t so much do a good Joker as a character as just do the usual Jack Nicholson…

Maybe she just has a flair for the dramatic? It probably runs in the family considering Ruby’s barista reveal.

One of the things that killed the CW App for me was there was no option of “here is money, please never another commercial”. Especially since commercial breaks were always 3-4 minutes per break, 5 breaks in an hour-long show, and the same 4 or 5 ads each time.  

“Oh, this thing was supposed to hold me?  Adorable.”

Yes. The Federation Ideals are great when you’ve got the biggest stick in the region, and your closest rivals are, at most, in a Cold War stalemate with you. But what happens when you’re so outgunned, outpowered and outmaneuvered politically that those ideals are actually put to the test? And, you know, sometimes you…

I mean, it does a great job highlighting the threat. They send in a ship that is essentially the Enterprise, captained by a guy who looks like someone drew Jean-Luc Picard from memory, and... they get completely destroyed.  It’s as close to just the Enterprise itself getting wrecked as they could do, in terms of…

As I remember from back when that whole storyline thing went on WAYY too long and kinda detracted from the overall series after a while.

I wonder if it was simply that: design folks built a beautiful set, and then the camera crews find it a total pain to shoot in.

Benedict Cumberbatch was totally not going to be playing Khan, either.