This gave me a great idea: Instead of having people subscribe to all of these different streaming services separately, we could make one, unified subscription plan, so they can access all the content for a bundled monthly fee, using one device and interface. We’ll call it the Completely Awesome Bundle for Live…

I go one step farther: Especially if you’re single or in a couple (read: no kids, no more than two humans in the house) ... don’t use the dishwasher at all. End the night by hand-washing your dishes. Listen to a podcast or some music while you do so. Many people watch television just before bed, or in bed, before…

Jet’s is awful trash, but Hungry Howies is... delicious trash.

The moment we give in and start referring to allegations as understood facts, we’ve lost the basis of our system.

Serious question: Did you actually read the article?

As any media lawyer or journalism professor will tell you, the word “alleged” offers no legal protection if you actually libel someone. Direct attribution, for which is what the author is arguing, is the best course from a legal and ethical perspective: “Three women say John Smith raped them” NOT “John Smith accused of…

On the latest episode of Meet the Movie Press, Variety’s Justin Kroll claimed Warner Bros. is waiting to see how well Justice League performs before committing to the solo Flash film, and is currently slowing down its search for a director to do so.

That was dumb, though! If you’re going to introduce game-changing technology to your story, it should have a lasting impact — otherwise, don’t introduce it. Build the story around something else. The fact that a previous series in the franchise also fucked this basic storytelling principle doesn’t doesn’t make it…

So when everybody thought Rey’s plot for this movie would be her training with Luke apart from the main action — a la Luke and Yoda on Dagobah — that was proof that it was going to be a beat-for-beat remake of Empire. Now, we find out that their training is going to be interrupted by an invasion and battle sequence,…

I actually kinda get where she’s coming from. I don’t hate the show, either, but its flaws make me very angry sometimes.

This is a fair counterpoint. It never really made sense to me that the phasing tech never resurfaced after that episode — either in the Federation or some other, less noble adversary, like the Romulans — but it does set a precedent within the franchise for the Federation abandoning god-level technology for…

The showrunners have said all along that they plan to explain why the spore drive is not seen in future shows. Hang in there.

I love Iron Man 3 and especially Simpkins’ interactions with Tony Stark, but I don’t know that I needed him to return.

Except BBQ sauce and steak are good separately. Justice League and Big Bang Theory are like, idk, expired anchovies and spoiled milk — two bad tastes that taste bad together, and which may cause illness if ingested.

So... the Lorca-is-evil stuff is definitely heading toward Burnham having to mutiny again, right? Except this time for a justifiable reason and with the support of the crew, instead of as a unilateral and impulsive choice? I have to assume Lorca’s rapid descent into dickishness is meant to serve some specific plot…

These are fair points. Don’t get be wrong, I think Burnham is a great character (much as I didn’t buy her reasons for the initial mutiny) and the performance is great, too. The silent realization scene you mentioned was particularly great. And while I’m not as on-board with central-protagonist structure as you are, I…

For example: Here is the bridge crew of the Discovery.

Exactly. The fact that they apparently thought TNG was The Picard Show and DS9 was The Sisko Show was, in retrospect, a huge red flag.

There are a lot of shaky elements of this show — including the spore technology, which we know has to fail and yet is so game-changing that it’s hard to believe the Federation ever would have abandoned it; the bizarre depiction of the Klingons; and the incredibly impulsive and poorly motivated mutiny that launched the…

There are many bad fandoms, but this one for sure is racing for the bottom. Which sucks because it really is a smart and funny and thoughtful and hilarious show, whose creators want nothing to do with the fandom’s worst elements. That said, I think it’s time for Harmon and Roiland to seriously grapple with what it is…