Not precisely, but doesn't it pick up in the next iteration at the same point the first book does? Or I guess we don't *know* that yet. The point is, it doesn't have to tell the whole 5,000 page story…

Isn't the first volume of the source material also the shortest by quite a bit? It takes a lot of words to describe something no one's ever seen before but only a few seconds on-screen. I don't see the problem…

Did anyone else notice the framing of the first shot of Jamie and Cersei? Jamie stands behind her in the background in a suggestive way. I think we will see this framing again just before he kills her a la the Mad King.

Man, I actually LOVED the Tarkin stuff. I was impressed by it far more than I was put off. CGI Leia, though, was less than great. Seemed like not a lot of good reason to show her face, other than to demonstrate that they could if they really wanted to.

I love baseball. I love Trek. I somehow hated this episode when I first saw it, but came to appreciate it on repeat viewing years later. It's just so much fun! It especially works if you're binge-watching, because boy does DS9 get grim at times in those last couple of seasons.

I think the biggest reason I love First Contact is that it's an action movie in which everyone's motivations make sense. Picard's struggles with his own vendetta are possibly the best thing in any Trek movie. "The line must be drawn HERE. This far, no further." Such an amazing speech and then the calmly delivered "you…

I don't think the chef whispered his dreams into this. This doesn't taste like dreams.

Once again, the background is amazing… the roach crawling down from the ceiling to start cooking in the diner? The clam with a guitar? I don't remember all the jokes but the posters in that diner seemed to have at least a dozen good ones.

They ask if there's ever been a "good" Star Trek film, and it hurts me. I think they got the right ones in WoK and First Contact, though. I would argue for Search for Spock, Voyage Home, and Undiscovered Country, as well. I thought the only truly "bad" ones were Final Frontier and Insurrection, with those I've not yet…

Yeah, you can see three people clearly in that short-ass video from the Franklin and I got that feeling as well. Maybe there are some deleted scenes or something that would have made that more obvious.

So, there's a point where they have to beam them back by 20s. I think we only actually SEE 3 cycles of this, with a fourth for the last couple of people. I HOPE more than 60 people survived, but that's about all there's direct evidence for. And the little party at the end seems to imply there were not a whole hell of…

In fairness, I thought the movie overall was a solid B+. Certainly plenty of action, I think they got the character beats right (where they actually had them), and there was a perfect amount of lighthearted humor. The nods to the original material were pleasant without being used as too much of a crutch. It was at…

I thought the solutions to their problems came entirely too easily. Music disrupting the hive, OK. But why did it instantly BLOW THEM UP? Also, the bioweapon was the lamest bioweapon in history and bore a little too much resemblance to the one in Nemesis.

isn’t it kind of silly that the USS Franklin, the antique Starfleet vessel found by the Enterprise survivors on the unknown planet, holds… a copy of the Beastie Boys’ “Sabotage,”

I thoroughly enjoyed it as well. I wish they'd explored Krall's history in greater detail, and a few other things could have been done better. The overarching concept has certainly been done by Trek before but yeah, it was a big deal to me that this was a totally new story that showed respect for the original material…

Year of Hell?

Well I mean, it certainly makes sense to not try to tell 7 books-worth of story in a single movie, yes? I wondered for a long time why people were shocked that Eddie and Susannah weren't cast yet. Wouldn't it be weird for them to appear in the first movie?

I hear that. Sometimes it feels like just another wall between groups of people, though. A major point of raising these discussions is that white perspectives and black perspectives are largely different, for all kinds of reasons. The attitude that white people will never be able to understand contains a lot of truth,…

WHITE GUY ALERT

Why Margaery, why?? Next time don't stop for your brother or ask permission! Oh, I guess there's no next time because you're dead. :(