One of those things that fans knew was coming but still sucks to hear. Chester is a clear “we’re grooming Cisco’s replacement” and they’ve pretty much exhausted everything they could out of Cavanaugh’s various Wellses. Still, it’s going to be weird to have a Flash without them, and makes me think, like Arrow and…

“We should never criticise superhero stuff for it’s failings, because as an ultra-fan, it makes me feel bad!”

The problem is they’re forcing whiteness. And have been for a long time. Forcing diversity isn’t the issue, diversity is just acknowledging the world we live in. 

Maybe it’s the stories I read, but I remain impressed how the people we train to go overseas and fight can handle this type of shit so easily while cops lose their shit if someone so much as looks at them wrong.

Still a gut punch that he’s gone.

As an old, old fan (same age as Joel, fan since the first Comedy Channel season), I’m more than happy to see the passing of the torch.

MST3K has always been a changing beast, and I hope it goes on for decades after I’m consigned to the bone orchard.

I wonder if Joel is still managing that Hot Fish Shop.

My wife and I have a friend who’s a kind, perfectly normal person, except she’s a Disney Adult. I remember when we were discussing their layoffs in the wake of Covid, she got weirdly choked up and said, “Abigail will have something to say about it.”

“It’s a long par 5 to the nations capital.”

Increase the Flash Gordon noise and put more science stuff around.

SCIENCE!!! AND TECHNOLOGY!!!!

You could go ahead and just call it The Shadow King. What a wild show that was.

I was more upset about the scientist woman who we’re apparently supposed to like as the fun adorkable one, who fucking murdered a guy.

Not sure if 7of9 brutally murdering her Ex-lover and getting away with it is what I’d call faithful to TNG. Nor the reason why she does it - aka the torturing to death of another popular old trek character.

For me the problem was too much fantasy and mysticism as plot elements, and too much writing in service to emotion rather than story. It didn’t help that a lot of characters’ schemes and decisions didn’t make sense if you thought about them for longer than a few seconds.

We have to be able to criticize things when they are bad. This show is badly written. It’s terrible from a storytelling point of view, and much of it’s violence and excesses are unneeded and uninspired and pointless.

I’d assumed that all the profanity stemmed from a major revival of interest in the complete works of Jacqueline Susann and the novels of Harold Robbins.

With the pedigree it had (ie having a writer of Michael Chabon’s caliber run the thing) it all felt awfully slapdash from a story/plot perspective. To me, it had the same problem Discovery does - always finding a way to be less than the sum of its parts.

It is, but it doesn’t remind me of the aspects of TNG I liked. The solution to that particular problem was not to set him up with a medical countdown to begin with, so they weren’t forced between a copout and killing him off in the last episode.

What’s Sean Patrick Flanery doing these days?