Yeah. The first season of Picard had myriad problems, but the most galling one for me was that its underlying theme seemed to be “everything is bad and also it’s always been bad and you’re a naïve idiot for believing otherwise when you were watching TNG, dummy.”

I can see that. The good guy doing something wrong for the right reasons and the villain who kind of has a good point have become the norm, but I am sort of interested in the Jedi Confidential type direction that this seems to be taking.

Just because Luke’s gamble on getting his friends back paid off doesnt mean it wasnt exactly that, a risky decision that was NOT the smart move in the situation he was in.

This show seems to be setting the Jedi up as space cops like they’re Green Lantern’s or something. I always thought they’d be more like ambassadors, or UN peacekeepers or something. But we’ve got a hard boiled lead detective with his young hot headed partner, tracking down his former partner that quit the force…

Now she can wear her Maga hat without fear of losing her Disney job.

She wants time off to spend with her friends:

Couldn't they easily put enemies in their transport buffer the same way they put tons of phasers in there before they left? You don't have to fight anybody, use your magic instant teleporter on everyone. 

No, you don’t get it. The audience of the 1960’s weren’t experiencing any hardship or existential uncertainty. So back then it was AUTHENTIC. 

I mean, I wouldn’t exactly call the wake of the most bloody war in the history of the quadrant the “halcyon days” but whatever….

what are the chances that this will be better writing-wise than the show it’s spinning off of?

Exactly!  The adventurer is *you*, whoever you are, or rather, whoever you want to be today.  ;-)

The other great thing about TAS is even the worst episode is only 22 minutes.

This show started as garbage and ended as bad, which I suppose is an improvement

This is exactly what I think of whenever Disney unveils some new, highly coveted limited edition popcorn bucket at one of their theme parks, and all the Disney adults in the room go nuts for it. It’s a giant, cheaply-produced plastic Millennium Falcon that doesn’t hold much popcorn, and it’s soaked in imitation…

I can’t quantify the level of pathetic that is required for someone to follow the narrow cultural path required to know about the original Red Box, want to blind buy D&D miniatures, and to get offended that one of said miniatures is a female reimagining of the back view of a picture from the front of said 40-year-old…

So to conclude, Star Trek Discovery was a bad show that never achieved its potential because of consistently terrible writing, incoherent plotting and weak characterization. It never really got better it just ran along the bottom going from mediocre to outright terrible, A real dud of a show that is pretty inessential…

I guarantee you there are at least 10 homes in the country with a whole wall of promotional popcorn buckets. I’m not any better with pop culture plastic, Lego mini figs get me, but dang they’re an ugly thing to collect

It would be great if people would stop using phrases like “reactionary culture war.”

The Umbrella Academy’s true superpower, being a Netflix show to make it past 3 seasons. 

RE: Masters of the Universe characters in the real world...they already did that back in the Dolph Lundgren era.