I’d beg to differ on how good the Orville is - this is damn fine TV. It has it’s own style of comedy, where it deliberately lingers on jokes a bit too long, and that extra beat is part of the joke.

But it’s not Trek, that’s for sure. It’s different, and arguably better.

The Orville is a deconstruction playing things…

What exactly do people want out of this show? Obviously it’s nowhere near being Star Trek level good, but TNG was even further away from being Star Trek level good in its first season. Most of the comedy misses rather than hits, but at this point I don’t care because The Orville is clearly a sci-fi drama, not a sci-fi…

I don’t understand all the reviewer negativity for Orville. As star trek lite isn’t this pretty much exactly what you’d want or expect?

...so, they’re going to take a character with only one joke (that he makes no sense and in no way makes any attempt to explain anything about himself) and one scare (that he’s so disarmingly unthreatening that he’s good at lulling you into a false sense of security so the jump scare hits harder)...

Naw, I don’t see the NRA condoning this in any form.

Are you fucking serious? How is this the NRA’s fault?

Guy looked more like Tarkin before they swapped his head with that CGI monstrosity.

One of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story’s greatest achievements—aside from pulling off one of the best stories in recent cinematic history where literally all of the heroes die—was using state-of-the-art visual effects to bring the late Peter Cushing back to play Grand Moff Tarkin.

I know I’m being a grump, but seeing Guy Henry doing the lines just makes me wish they’d cast him with some prosthetic cheekbones or something. Still impressive technology, obvs, but I can dream!

The second cannibal replies “Well, not ‘ha ha’ funny...”

Two cannibals were eating a clown. The first cannibal turns to the second cannibal and asks “Does this taste funny to you?”

Why did we even need this article? All we needed was a tweet: “You can’t watch ST:Discovery unless you pay up, unless you have Netflix in another country.”

Trendacosta gonna Trendacosta

My wife wanted to do a re watch of TNG since she mostly watched it as bits and pieces in syndication. She’s a HUGE TOS fan and has seen it a bunch of times but never saw TNG in full. I said “we can skip seasons 1 and 2" but she refused, she’s a completionist and feels you need to see the ENTIRETY of a given tv show.

Hang on, Die Hard on the Enterprise was an awesome episode.

In Russia, hamburger clown eats YOU!

In the early days of the internet, it was one of a very small number of sites (it, CHUD, Dark Horizons, and a handful of others) catering to the film nerd community. That gave it a huge built-in advantage. Better sites came along, but momentum kept it going, even as a lot of us who had once read it daily stopped…

Maybe. But the Thor/Loki team-up is like 90% of what I remember from that movie.

Wait, I’m not supposed to like Rorschach? Fuck, thanks for the heads up.

It’s classic absurdist anti-humor, which SNL has been doing from day one. The Bass-O-Matic in itself wasn’t funny, it was the wholeheartedness of Aykroyd and the stupidity of the premise that made it work. Same with David S. Pumpkins.