Is there a code for the $200 Taq Mahal at Walmart or has the deal finished? 

Is there a code for the $200 Taq Mahal at Walmart or has the deal finished? 

That’s a defensible position. Star Trek ‘09, while entertaining, isn’t even close. I’d put II, IV, VI, and Beyond above ‘09. First Contact is tied.

That’s a defensible position. Star Trek ‘09, while entertaining, isn’t even close. I’d put II, IV, VI, and Beyond…

If half of what is out there about the business side of Channel Awesome is true, then Doug Walker is definitely an asshole. Doesn’t mean they don’t produce good videos though. Speaking as someone who works in education, assholes can do a lot of good for the world if properly channeled.

I think that WKRP in the Alpha Quadrant would be a great show and that’s one of the avenues that the show could go down, but WKRP didn’t try to break the Iran-Contra Scandal or capture Russian spies. The disconnect is that these half-way decent people are given assignments far beyond their abilities and too often the…

He probably started a successful business. For some reason Americans routinely equate financial success with intelligence or governance. Success in business is about 30% luck, 30% ruthlessness, 30% hard work, and 10% ability.

Actual counterpoint based on evidence and reasoning: the Democrats faced major structural disadvantages heading into the 2016 election.

New 52 was the apex of comic publishers trying to make comics more like TV shows. A trend that began in the early-2000s with deconstructed story-telling and more realistically written characters, but eventually evolved to thinking about comics AS TV series with seasons, reboots, and deconstruction to the point of…

If there’s no Thanos-copter, then I’m out!

Not just that, but uses things that are loosely tied to Geordi. The Samaritan Snare and The Icarus Factor both prominently feature plots involving the character and both are incredibly forgettable episodes that could easily be confused. That, plus the mention of VISOR technology and the propensity for Star Trek actors…

Plus it was so out of character for Damar to have said in that episode: “Counselor Troi, kindly move out of the way so I can attach the interferometirc nullifier to this Andorian.” He always calls her Deanna.

It’s a little strange to go to Dana Gould for insight into Apu as most of his character development and many of the most important episodes featuring him were written and aired years before Gould joined the show. David Cohen, Bill Oakley, or Josh Weinstein might be a little more useful as they were responsible for a…

Part of that on TNG was Roddenberry’s directive that humans had grown to accept death and didn’t deal with it in the same way we do today. It just came off like everyone was kind of a sociopath when people died horribly. I think there’s a couple episodes where they deal with orphaned kids and, one that becomes Worf’s…

To be fair, Spock wasn’t really on a quest to become more human, more like he came to accept his humanity and became a fuller person. In TOS he shits on humanity all the time. 

I gotta hand it to the writers, with Issac they keep hitting the same AI sweet spot where you can see why the machine does something we would consider emotional from a logical perspective, BUT sells it in such a way that there’s doubt whether it’s entirely cold logic.

I think I came off a little more harsh than I meant to. Many of those character’s are distinct within their owns books, but are very similar characters. Smart, tough, quick-witted, very specifically outside the common fantasy feminine archetype, with unusual family situations.

I’m reminded of Terry Pratchett (whom I adore) who tried his level best to write engaging female characters. But ended up creating an engaging female character that was copy-pasted into every single book he wrote.

“Xena can’t fly!”

Oh it’s cringy, but Joe Piscopo was on TNG, the Rock was on Voyager, and TOS had an entire episode about Gary 7. Cringing comes with genre Sci-Fi.

I suppose? But, you have fuck-up companies in the military and they sit in dock or in the middle of nowhere for months on end so they can’t fuck-up anything important. These people have been given high-level diplomatic and military espionage missions.

You’ve got it! This whole time I’ve been trying to figure out why I don’t like this show more. Half the characters are written like they live and work on a starship and half the characters are written like they work in a writers room.