Agree, I think if you adapt the feel and tone his works would make great adaptations. For better or worse, Vonnegut’s works are essentially him monologuing about issues in our world in a fictional setting, which I can’t imagine being adaptable in any kind of visual medium.

I think it depends on how they approach the show. Black Mirror while excellent at making commentary about our society does it exclusively through the lens of Charlie Broker and the role of technology. I think the show could make a unique impact if it emphasized the more fantastical elements and provided more points of…

My first thought was the mirror universe too, though while Star Trek is fairly loose with continuity would they violate something in as concrete as Kirk being the first in the Mirror universe? Given the infinite possibilities of the Trek multiverse they could have easily jumped to a random universe

Yea been a while since my last DS9 re watch but TNG, Voy, and Ent had super weak first seasons. Comparitvly Discovery is killing it even with all of its obvious flaws and odd relationship with continuity

I think generally much more discovery, optimism and wonder is what is generally meant by feeling Star Trek. Even at the height of the dominion war in DS9 they still did a few episodes involving exploration and a whole episode about teaching baseball to aliens

100% Ash is a secret Klingon presumable taking the place of the original, it would explain the super slight descripincies in his back story and be a way to continue the Klingon Arc without the war. In terms of quality overall fairly Meh but still quite possible the best first season of Star Trek since TOS.

My bet is on the theory that Tyler is a secret Klingon. Would explain the sex a little bit better and not unheard of for Klingons to erase people’s minds to accomplish goals when desperate, a la Worf and Kurn after the destruction of House Mogh.

I mean what Wikileaks, and to a lesser extant Assange himself, released during the early Obama administration was huge and started a wave of revealing just how fucked American foreign policy was and I feel was morally right. The issue started when they felt they had the only credible view of morality and started to…

Could be but given the rumors were for their entire entertainment division I think it was good old fashioned hegemonic Disney

I mean it would be the perfect metaphor for being creatively lost but keep doing something in the hopes it was as profitable has it once ways.

You joke but as long as Marvel is making money, Fox and Sony are going milk anything mildly related to it dry

I am genuinely curious whether this is some kind of genius plan on sony’s part to get a huge payday from Disney to fully buy back all the spiderman rights or just another idiotic hollywood attempt to build a cinematic universe at the expense of semi-beloved characters at a cost of hundreds of millions of dollars and…

Hopefully a positive sign of this is not just calling out obviously atrocious behavior like what Louis has admitted too, but Maron using this as a time to reflect on his role in helping to support a culture that lets this happen and how he can be a better human.

To kind of build off with what is being thrown around, yea the road is an incredibly difficult dehumanizing affair that essentially removes you from forming normal relations or understanding how people work. Add in toxic masculinity permeating almost all parts of our culture, the unique toxic masculinity of stand up,…

I am willing to give him the benefit of the doubt on this one given his honesty about this and admitting some of his wrongs within the same statement. Maron also famously just rambles during his intros about what is most relevant at the time of recording, this is probably his gut reaction more then a formal statement…

I believed just hadn’t heard any specific accusations of how terrible a human being he was, but yea fuck him and hopefully he loses his place at marvel real soon.

I know you mention con culture and the more stereotypically nerdy aspects, but do you think their is a unique strain of toxic masculinity inherent in the core of the industry or just an overlap of the sexism from mainstream society? Also since it seems to have been awhile since you were professional attached to the…

Had not heard about Sims which very much saddens me if it is true. I guess my question would be is this a symptom of the Comic Industry, Hollywood since the big two are owned by movie studios now, or general patriarchy culture? I hope it is one of the former two since it looks like our society is willing to start to…

That is an open question but if I had to make an educated Guess DiDio probably knew and could have potentially worked on the plan that kept him at DC since he is much more of an executive. Lee and Johns could have but are also almost entirely in the creative field and started running DC officially after this was…

More then an open secret he was already investigated for this and and found he had violated company policy and standard. DC’s solution was to keep women away from him which meant they default made it so no women could work on any Superman titles so long as he stayed with the company.