“SpaceX Elon” is just a figurehead.  Gwynne Shotwell runs that show, and keeps Elon the fuck out of it as much as possible.

- In two episodes, Jon Cryer’s Lex Luthor has elevated this show from OK/decent to fucking great. He had BETTER be back for Season 5.

My guess is bringing in Lex was the plan all along. You don’t introduce characters who are so tied to the character like Mercy and Otis are, without eventually having the man himself make an appearance (granted for this argument to work please ignore Miss Tessmacher being on the show for two years)

Arena pays off so many dividends. It gets us a nice visual gag in Bill and Ted’s Bogus Journey, it gets us the excellent Darmok, and one of the better jokes in Galaxy Quest.

This outcome opened far more interesting doors.

Michael as the Angel would’ve been a stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid payoff and only an idiot would’ve wanted it. There, I said it. Too much would’ve turned into a predestination paradox, which is just lazy writing. This outcome opened far more interesting doors.

Cage was just another piece to love, in what is, IMO, the best Spider-Man movie made to date.

Well at least I now know you’re just entirely nuts. If you thought the last episode was worthy of a B and this one was leagues worse... yeah, I mean to each his own but you seem wholly unfit to review television shows. But okay. 

The Moclans also upgraded the Deflectors, so the combined upgrades have now essentially made The Orville a new Defiant.

The Orville’s shields got a Moclan upgrade not long ago and as it was a test, they would be the only ship to have the stronger deflectors.

They did explain how The Orville stands up to the Krill ships as well as it does, but they did so in a properly subtle way. Early on in the episode, the Kaylon reference that they’re performing shield upgrades to the ship (which makes sense given at that point they had total control and were using it to lead their…

Except that, while Michael did break the rules, she did NOT start the war. The war started because her warnings were ignored.

I really can’t stand that he and Andy Dick were both part of a top 5 all time sitcom in Newsradio.

Another for the “bizarrely angry Discovery review” pile. This one is better at seeming like it’s not a “waaaaah this doesn’t make me feel like TNG made me feel when I was 9" screed than the ones on Reddit, but that’s all this is.

I agree with Mike. Ron Livingston is profoundly watchable. There’s this amiability to him that is just instantly relatable. I smile when I find out this man is in something, which is far too rare.

Mannnnnn, this looks terrifying. I want to know more about the social commentary undoubtedly layered within it, but I may just have to read the Wikipedia on it later.

I’ll get a lot of flak for this one, but here goes: I’m afraid Disney laid down a mandate to backpedal on Rian Johnson’s fresh, bold direction in reaction to the shitstorm blown up by two disparate groups. (Note how I say they’re not the same, folks!)

Dealing with the challenges presented by the human mind and brain can be Hell. I hope everybody gets through it.

there’s only one Chris and that’s Pine.