I wonder if (at least in my case) it’s being someone who grew up on the classic series. There so many brilliant companions who were special purely on their own merits as people, so they didn’t need to cook up some other reason to force the matter.

although maybe that will turn out deliberate and we’ll get another “This companion is the most important magical special thing ever” arc again.

Give me a Ghostbusters franchised location in LA staffed by characters played by Zook, Paul Scheer, and June Diane Raphael.

I’ve long thought that a TV series following a franchised Ghostbusters operation somewhere far away from New York could’ve had legs. Maybe something along the lines of Stargate Atlantis.

Maverick.

At least it tried to do something relatively new with the concept.

This doesn’t look like a how-to guide for BG3, does Spanfeller know about this?

All they had to say, given the context, was something like this:

Agreed. I think this:

Seriously. Not everything needs to be explained in detail on-screen.

It was kind of the same thing with the third season of Picard. It’s not a one-to-one since Picard had two preceding seasons that stubbornly refused to leverage fanservice-style nostalgia to, in my opinion, its severe detriment and IMO Picard S3 did it a lot better. But S3’s actual story was not great.

At first I thought there was no way that they could do anything like that more awful than what Doctor Who did in turning every dead person - explicitly including Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart - into a Cyberman, but then I remembered that I watched the first two seasons of Picard.

Yikes. I have a similar credit score and I got 6.08% through Honda on a 60-month a little over a year ago; that was better even than what my credit union was offering. My wife got 3.99% on a 48-month, also through Honda, in October. She also has an 800+ score.

The fundamental difference I see between WFH advocates and those who want everybody forced to physically come in is that the former generally don’t care where anybody works because it doesn’t impact them either way. Want to come into the office? Great! Want to work from home? Great! Want to work from a coffee shop?…

My favorite one is “I like being able to just walk to a co-worker’s desk and tap them on the shoulder!”

Every Fallout game has different characters and a different story. That’s like saying the makers of each game after the original Fallout somehow violated fans’ trust by not continuing to follow the Vault Dweller from that game.

There’s one creator in particular that springs to mind when you say that.

I’m assuming that’s what Burnham’s rank will be at the end of this season, unless they just go all the way and show us that she’s been the Great Bird of the Galaxy all along.

Your use of “entertaining” is a good choice there. I’m a fan of TMP and I think STV is genuinely horrendous on several levels and the worst of the original six films.

That being said, he’s not wrong, and fandoms/fans have made the media they consume not just a part of their life, but their whole identity. I would never want to work on an established fandom.