In just the last 50 years, we’ve gone from landing on the moon to... trying to get back to the moon.

You seem nice.

Agree completely. Even though I think season 1 was mostly bad, DISCO proved to me they are capable of creating characters I care about. I think Saru, regular universe Georgiou, Lorca, and Stamets are/were really well conceived people and I’d love to see them built upon and grow. But now we bring back Pike, and Spock,…

Yup, because Guinan was all about the jokes... sure, why not..

Don’t forget her having to remind Saru his vision is better than human vision and that he could use it on the monitor. Obviously, he couldn’t have figured out he could use his own eyes without Michael’s help.

I most enjoyed this episode, but definitely agree with the point about all the Spock stuff. Discovery would probably be fine as its own show. Hell, it can even wink at stuff every now and then, but this level of being tied in is a little bit ridiculous.

Right. They haven’t established anything that would negate the possibility of Sybok having already been there and left, they just haven’t mentioned him at all. If I recall Spock mentions that Sybok’s mother died and that the two were “raised as brothers.”

All the flashbacks to young Spock and the discussion of his and Michael’s childhood left me asking, “what about Sybok?” (and don’t @ me with “that movie sucked so don’t consider it canon”)

Anson Mount sold me on his Pike basically immediately. Really weird reading this review saying he’s basically Lorca when he is emphatically not Lorca. Pike was more fun and more...Star Trek in one episode than Lorca managed in a full season- which isn’t a criticism because that was extremely the point of Lorca- but…

When it’s music for music’s sake? Absolutely.

It’s the best opening for an M:I film, so if that was MoviePass’s plan it failed miserably.

I think it’s a warning about lyme disease?

“We’re all yearning to be proven wrong”

What? Maybe quit throwing around the “we” words there, Mr. Narrator. Why the hell are people so emotionally invested in seeing this guy win again, anyway? I honestly cannot comprehend it. He was a great player who fucked up his life and his career by being a shithead and had the…

those were the divisions they were in prior to 1994. Then again Atlanta was in the NL West at that time too, so maybe it’s just selective nostalgia on my part?

I doubled checked the math and Atlanta is indeed very close to Atlanta.

Netflix should be doing this for Broadway shows in general. Go in, record the last dress rehearsal. Then sit on it for like 5 years.

*Sean is about to board train, but stops to give note to commentariat*

Look, I pieced it together.

It's like a chess match where every move can be checkmate, you can't offer your opponent a draw, you're only punished for the most outrageous instances of cheating, and when time runs out three idiots decide who won.

I like how Jack Handey put it: "To me, boxing is like a ballet, except there's no music, no choreography, and the dancers hit each other."