Holy crap, no. ; ) 

Yeah, my groups are totally flip flopped on that. I learned on the TSR red box, and frankly I’d prefer an occasional campaign with stat-roll, though for terms of newfangled modern “game balance,” I can see why designers would prefer players assign or use a predetermined array.

Right, but if I remember correctly, point buy (or preset values... I can’t remember because I haven’t cracked a 5E book in about 6 months) was elevated to the “standard” method, with rolling considered an optional method.

IIRC, D&D 5E’s default ability score generation is done with point buy, allowing everyone at the table equal footing. This other stuff might be handy, but I haven’t played in a group using roll-for-stats in about 20 years.

I’ve long thought the same about Alien Vs. Predator, yet here we are.

IMO, writers are unfortunately now leaning on “pansexuality” and LGBTQ challenges as the go-tos for “character development.” Making a character pansexual isn’t a character development, IMO, any more than pushing “rape sequences” was less than a decade ago.

Jeezus... he actually said that? About a Star Wars movie? Star Wars: the poster child for cinema escapism. I mean... that might have worked for R1, but Solo?!?

Yeah, no kidding. My local theater isn’t great but I had no idea what was happening during the majority of the Kessel Run sequence. Some sort of space monster thing, I guess.

If you mean, “Will the new Star Trek ever truly honor the series’ visual continuity, which includes plywood spaceship sets and rubber mask monsters from the original 1960s TV series?” the answer is a firm “no.”

Jeezus, this isn’t rocket science:

Yeah. The SUV even has what looks like a Thule-style carrying compartment on the roof. And it’s got rims, not hubcaps. And the back-end silhouette of the car to the right of Harvey is just not the kind of car you’d see in 1960 or whatever. It’s a budget sedan.

I thought that, too, but if you’ll indulge me being nitpicky:

Real shame they didn’t go “1960s” with this. I would have been far more interested if we got retro period along with the Hail Satan hijinks.

That’s my feeling on most of these reboots where they swap the character’s gender/ethnicity. If you do it right, it’s just not the same character. And if you just gloss over it, you’re ignoring any of the grit, struggle, joy, or cultural identity of the reboot/recast’s gender or ethnicity.

Right. My problem with many of these “let’s change the gender or ethnicity of this character” reboots or re-interpretations isn’t that these characters aren’t their original WASP design, so much as changing 90% of them to a different gender or ethnicity fundamentally changes their background, and should be affecting…

I don’t even begin to trust anyone in charge of the DCU at WB to handle an African-American Superman. Growing up in America, black, male, with those kind of superpowers, would have to be a different narrative. And if it wasn’t, there’d be backlash about why it wasn’t.

Not sure why they felt the need to go all-computer on the daemons. Henson company or someone similar probably could have pulled off quite a few of those as either on-set or blue-screened practical for a fraction of the cost/time.

Yes. Welcome to the hyper-corrected future where we right past wrongs by doing the exact same thing rather than recognizing talent regardless of gender, color, or religion and opening things up to everyone universally.

Hopefully they’ll stop before hitting Foundation and Empire? The original Foundation stories are great, but the latter not so much. Also not sure how any showrunner would be able to keep the audience clueless to the identity of the Mule the moment he first shows up... Most. Anticipated. Twist. Ever.

I kinda lump this under the last Ghostbusters flick. Aside from the fact that it wasn’t particularly good, they squandered their cast, concept, and franchise by making it a sloppily executed reboot instead of building off the original.