After three seasons on His Dark Materials (which I thought she was great in), I can’t blame Dafne Keen for maybe not wanting to immediately get back into another FX-heavy franchise series. Coming in for half the season and going out in a lightsaber battle is about the ideal outcome here.

I honestly hope that they just keep calling him Qimir. Like, “The Good Place” puns aside, I feel that his character is more effective if he doesn’t have a goofy-ass Sith name.

I gotta think I would have seen the Qimir twist coming if I didn’t love Manny Jacinto so much on The Good Place. I was like “oh, this is like Star Wars Jason, except less dumb” (he’d kinda have to be less dumb). But I thought it was a great reveal, totally flew under the radar for me.

The biggest underlying plot in The Acolyte as far as I’m concernerd is to show the growing ineffectiveness of the Jedi Order. At this point, as in The Phantom Menace a century later, they have grown incredibly complacent due to the lack of threats. They allow mediocre Jedi like Yord to be a Knight. They stop teaching…

My guess (and maybe this is already known to be incorrect) is that this is an Anakin/Vader who was redeemed some time after getting the suit. But he still needs the suit to live, so he just makes a white/Light Side version of it.

It’s funny, if you go back to the beginning, there’s so much promise in Voyager’s premise - I liked the final product, but I would have LOVED to see it if they had stuck with the Maquis/Starfleet conflict throughout and have it actually feel like a truly different area of space instead of just making it TNG-lite.

Curious to hear your reasoning there - most people I’ve heard from regard DS9 as one of the best, partially because it feels like a more modern (at least partially serialized) show than the other older Star Treks and because of the topics it deals with (racism, war, etc). A lot of people love to take a more modern…

Oh nice, he sounds good from that clip. I don’t think I’ve seen him in anything past the mediocre Julia Louis-Dreyfus sitcom “The New Adventures of Old Christine”.

I’m curious what your issue is with this take. I mean, yes, obviously they’re the same physical man and, likewise, obviously Batman doesn’t exist without the trauma and money from Bruce Wayne and Bruce Wayne doesn’t exist without a Gotham in need of a hero and Batman’s need of a “hiding in plain sight” disguise. They…

Enterprise was the first Star Trek I watched as it aired and, as a kid, I loved it. However, as an adult it’s clear that 1) they didn’t know what to do with the premise/setting without either relying on the 90s Star Trek shows (which they were clearly initially trying to get away from) or being a fairly-boring “we’re…

I think it’s interesting how much attention Voyager has been getting over the last few years - Janeway playing a big part (really two big parts, between Admiral Janeway and Hologram Janeway) in Prodigy s1, Chakotay and the Doctor in s2, Tom Paris having basically his own Lower Decks episode, Seven of Nine in all…

I think Neelix is a better character than people give him credit for. And I like Kes conceptually, but having her in a relationship with Neelix (which, admittedly, they dropped fairly quickly) just went to show that they didn’t think through her character more than “they age fast”.

At least in the US (no clue if they do it differently in the UK), I don’t think there’s such thing as an automatic series regular - you can be in every episode of a season, but if you weren’t negotiated and contracted into the role of “series regular”, it doesn’t matter. And conversely, if you did manage to get the…

I’m not seeing anything about Hugh Jackman being queer. It looks like Anna Paquin came out as bi a while back, but I don't see anyone else from the cast.

Probably the weakest episode of the season to me, or near it. Like you mention here, it has a thousand plot threads that all come in and out and most of them never really pay off, plus the reveal of Sutekh was entirely lost on me (and I imagine many others) because I’ve never seen classic Doctor Who. And as someone…

“It’s got a queer director, lots of queer actors in it.”

I think the intent was “yes, we acknowledge that Bryan Singer is gay and how that influenced the film, but we also don’t want to celebrate him so much or prop him up as some kind of gay icon because of the abuses he’s committed”.

Seems like pretty piss-poor design that you can fully remove someone from the system, but only if you’re at max capacity. Then again, it’s just a plot contrivance, so oh well.

Definitely got big “Captain Jack Harkness 2.0" vibes from Rogue - both are queer male characters played by gay American actors (or in Barrowman’s case, Scottish-American) who have time traveled and met the Doctor in “the past” and who clearly have morals a little more loose than the Doctor, but are ultimately heroes.…

What annoys me is that, apparently, the means to swap someone in the matter transfer existed, but when they found the final Chuldur (the one Ruby beat up and they thought replaced her), why did they just toss her in and not make HER swap with Ruby?