Picard, for diplomacy, wisdom, and badassery. Then Janeway, for much the same as Picard, although not quite as consistently. Then Kirk, who is iconic but honestly a bit of a horny whackjob if you get right down to it! Neither Sisko nor Archer are favorites only because DS9 lost me mid-way through, and frankly…

Nope, I actually don't understand the point. Why would I be ashamed to ask anyone to see a superhero movie with me? Movies — unless we're talking documentaries — are fantasies, fictional.

Jason Bourne is essentially a superhero already.

Okay, I think I understand a little better. Re: "changing" chinks to kinks, I think forcing a change on language like that probably won't work. Language changes that bubble up more organically tend to be the ones that stick, and I just don't think enough people are making the same connection as you to consider this…

Well, not exactly semantics, as the phrase IS "a chink in the armor" not "a kink in the armor" — and connotatively and denotatively kink doesn't make the same kind of sense that chink does.

I'd disagree — the context of "chink" is in the phrase "a chink in the armor" — so context shows quite clearly it has nothing to do with the slur. And a "kink" doesn't mean the same as "chink" by any stretch — you can have a kink in a hose or a rope, but it's not applicable to something like armor. So it
seems a…

But inserting racial connotations *everywhere*, even when the context shows it has nothing to do with a slur, does seem counterproductive.

I also liked it better than S1, and a close friend who *disliked* S1 has said that S2 was a significant jump in quality, primarily in acting. So go figure.

>>"But that's why the metaphor fails. To 'other' your fellow man is
compete idiocy because you'd be denying their humanity in order to
facilitate an act of prejudice."

I think you're missing the fact that homophobes, for example, OFTEN speak quite strongly about gay people, and granting equivalent status to gays, is GOING TO DESTROY THE FAMILY AND OUR ENTIRE NATION.

I actually enjoyed this more than the reviewer. It was far from perfect, certainly, but there were a lot of notes that some people seem to be questioning that I thought just worked.

Much the way River Song admitted something similar in "The Wedding of River Song", actually. That her own pain in losing the Doctor would be greater than the pain of the universe collapsing.

Actually, the way that barn-woman came in and said "leave those, they're for the boys" got me to thinking that she might be a foster-mother and maybe it's some sort of Dry Lands orphanage.

It all sorts of elements that had possibilities to be interesting, but for some reason, it never seemed to gel into something I would get excited about watching.

I simply cannot understand all the Violet-love and Ginger-hate here. I watched every minute of every episode AND every minute of Untucked, and there's no way Violet truly earned that crown, no matter how desperately the show tried to create some sort of edited Violet redemption arc out of what has been perhaps the…

I dunno — there is something in opposites attracting. Certainly my husband and I have very different temperaments. If you amped his type-A perfectionism up, you'd have Robert; turn my natural optimism and emotional expressiveness up to 11, and you'd get Sol.

As a non-drag-queen gay man, one of the things about RPDR is that — while it does show the messier side of drag queens and gay men (allusions to promiscuity, drug use, alcohol abuse), the show also provides context and exposure of some of the more emotional aspects of being gay. Performers who talk about alienation…

I dunno… Violet's final "why I should be the winner speech" didn't strike me as confident as much as shockingly arrogant… there's a line that she definitely crossed for me, and I think it will be a LOT more valuable for Violet to lose than it would be for her to win.

I completely disagree with the reviewer's take on Dichen's performance. I'm actually quite glad she didn't suddenly become a mustache-twirling hand-rubbing over-the-top evil mastermind. In these most recent episodes, Jiaying was not "flipping a switch" and suddenly showing a dark side. Her actions were absolutely…

I think we're also supposed to get the impression that this isn't the first time the issue of being a single mom has interfered in Joan's dating life. Her hesitation in being up front on their first date was not because she thought that he was a catch that she would land as a permanent partner — she was just visiting…