Wrong. The child could be adorable.

I think there’s a lot more nuance to the debate about actors playing characters they do not share their same exact background with than the internet will allow, but casting a straight non-Jewish man to play a very famous gay Jewish man, while also putting him in an unnecessary prosthetic nose, and then also casting a…

I think that James’ reading of the fight with the adult Gorn is a bit generous. I don’t really think that the show was trying to engender sympathy for the Gorn so much as cheering for Spock and Chapel killing it. And while there was stuff to like in the episode, this gets to my problem with it. The issues with Disco…

I know many folks around here have liked Season 2 a lot more than I did, but I couldn’t help thinking about this episode in comparison to the finale last year. I think almost everyone agrees that A Quality of Mercy was among the best Trek episodes in the better part of 30 years, and that overall SNW Season 1 the same.

I’m baffled why they cast Carol Kane and gave her zero chance to rise above the one note, kooky performance. She takes me right out of the story every time.

I feel like a pure, unadulterated “I absolutely love Strange New Worlds” comment has a place here, at the end of the show’s second season. This is the first time I’ve truly felt like a kid watching Star Trek since the end of Voyager. I am so happy to have it back in a form like this.

The main thing everyone should be taking away from this is that being in the military makes you no less susceptible to becoming a crackpot conspiracist than any other person in society, and there’s no reason to act like service automatically grants you credibility.

Marvel had a real opportunity here to break out of their box and lean into the obvious mystery/paranoia of a spy thriller. Somehow, they decided to ditch that for something of a mess.

This is a show built heavily around the use of antisemitic and antimuslim conspiracy theories in order to create a paranoid feeling of terror and helplessness in the main characters and audience. But to get there it sacrifices its goodwill in creating its single best metaphor for refugee crises. And then it has the…

I’ve liked everything MCU has done, even stuff people hated like Dark World. Now those were varying degrees of like, but I still liked them. Secret Invasion is a first for me. It’s not good. By any means. It’s incredibly bland and dull. It keeps saying its a “spy thriller” yet displays none of the characteristics to…

Can we stop using direct Twitter (or is it “X” now?) links, as most of us have given up on the platform and can’t even see what you’re sharing.

So... does anyone else have a problem with the overall theme of “immigrants are literally replacing us?” This whole story line seems like something Richard Spencer could nod his head along to and say, “See, Marvel gets it!” It just seems weird that a show with a central premise that runs so closely to neo-nazi…

I have doubts that it will be a huge failure. The first movie was a huge hit.

Two things:

“Shutdown” is a noun, as in, “There has been a shutdown at the studio that makes Daredevil.”

“Shut down” is a phrasal verb, as in, “Studios shut down Daredevil and Penguin shows until the writers strike is over.”

Just in case anyone was interested.

You could also just like, pay your writers and give them fair deals? But I guess delaying all your massive movies makes sense, too.

That was about 10 years ago. Now he looks like an ugly white supremacist.

Yup. I live on Whidbey Island and my main/front windows face west. I get direct sunshine on them from about 1 pm til sundown (almost 9 pm now).

I was in Hoquiam Saturday for a housewarming party, and Tacoma Sunday for mother’s day, and I live north of Seattle. My house does not have AC and it’s difficult to keep it even remotely comfortable in weather like this. Portable and window ac units have been a must

Really disappointing to learn that (at abt 15m) that Famuyiwa, Filoni, Favreau, the actor, et al. have no idea what the difference between “cache” and “cachet” is, or how to pronounce them.