Tripp's character was painted in broad strokes. I agree, those strokes were better thought out than the ones that painted the rest of the cast as cyphers. I liked Tripp for all the reason you mentioned, and wanted to see his potential realized. But it wasn't. The show wasted Tripp when he was alive, and is now using…

That moment when Coulson tells Mack they've been wasting his talents? Yeah, I thought he was channeling me for a second there. Then, the episode goes on to actually have Mack do things. Possibly important things. How novel. That line about Mack not caring for violence? After the way he stepped up to the Kree & took…

Didnt tought that you guys had jumped into the hate train. Or below it. This review was embarrasing to read.

Has anyone noticed those annoying "get the fancy 12 Monkeys lights so you can have the same light experience that they are having in the show" ads? After thinking "huh" and "WTF" I remembered mentioning to my husband that gee, sometimes Cassie has these cool lavender color tones in her glasses...And sometimes a scene…

Except that there would have to be a timeline where they live in a plague-free future and still decide to send someone back in time, for some other reason. And that person somehow is infected with what becomes the plague.

This. Show. I go through the same thing every week, they hot some trope or some silly thing that threatens my suspension of disbelief, and I'm all like, "Well I knew it could't last, we're about to go off the rails. And then it takes it someplace so unexpected, so head-messing, that I am blown away.

Meanwhile, while the Pallid Man is busy torturing Cole

Very good piece. Many commenters are making good points that there may be specific instances or reasons where the "Truths" might be a bit harsh, but that is the entire point of the piece. If you have goals that aren't being met, defending the status quo will never help. YOu have to challenge your assumptions and…

This is one of the chief lessons I am trying to teach my young daughter - the only way you can possibly fail at something is if you stop trying. As you said, setbacks are frustrating, but they only become failures when you stop trying to overcome them.

This was a good article. I think one of the most valuable parts of self improvement is learning how to admit to yourself that you were wrong, and that's ok, and you can change your mind.

If only the article had explicitly spelled out the exact scenario you are complaining about. You know something like:

Sure, everyone dies.

Congrats on not reading the article.

"Lookit him! He's adorable!"

"Get your hands off me ya freak!"

The truth hurts — and God, much as I love Star Trek there comes a point where any long-running franchise collects a lot of lazy tropes and creaky cliches that need to be scraped off. Totally get and respect people who say DS9 isn't their cup of replicator Earl Grey, but damn... it needed to happen.

Agreed. I know this is a really crass thing to say, but I'm really glad Roddenberry's health prevented him from having any meaningful input into Deep Space Nine. A lot of tired old Trek tropes desperately needed a kick in the slats and little if any of it would have happened if he had anything to do with it.

Even now, fans are very protective of Roddenberry's godlike status. When I had the audacity to suggest that Deep Space Nine was so good in part because it broke free of Roddenberry's utopianism, I really pissed some people off.

Except the Egyptians never put the Hebrews in bondage...

I've been thinking about Kepler and it's limitations for a while and I think it might help here. Here's the deal with hot Jupiters: they're easy to see because
(a) they're huge (The Jupiter Part)
(b) they orbit really quickly because they are close to their stars (The Hot Part)

Am I the only one who's sick to death of the whole Fermi'sParadox-GreatSilence-GreatFilter thing?