Yeah. It never really bothered me much on Gawker or Gizmodo because I didn’t comment there much (and, also, I somehow wasn’t in the greys after a while [it pays to make dick jokes]).

And so, with the magic laser nails, she removed Voq’s consciousness? I’ll admit I was working on a taxidermy owl and a tuna casserole while watching this and didn’t pay enough attention.

Er, sorry — my sense of humour was apparently removed by L’Rell’s magic laser gloves. I totally thought the flashlight thing seemed possible — the Mirror episodes and the Ferengi episodes didn’t exactly soar, so I have no idea what a combo (that’s the only one I missed, weirdly) would be like.

PS: I’ve been commenting here for years — but didn’t move over when Disqus changed. It’s kind of lousy to be stuck in the greys, although there’s pretty good company. Sometimes, I’m grey — sometimes I’m not. I don’t really get how this works, but it’s not super-fun.

I’d read the rumours pretty early on, before even the Voq stuff, but a few things just seemed odd (picking Burnham in the first place, his weird talks with her, his insistence with Stametts, the Admiral stuff, the alternate universe mentions in his office, and then the coordinates he punched in for the spore drive…

And how it wasn’t dark on the mirror TOS Enterprise? And intendant Kira wasn’t human.

And only because it’s needed for the plot. It just all seems a little too Murder She Wrote.

Alas, Sarah Solemani had a Guardian piece this morning saying about Ansari:

The Lorca thing had been telegraphed for a while. It’s fun, I guess, but silly. And makes me wonder whether this show is actually about anything at all.

Not outside of college campuses.

Yes, she says she did — twice. They had mutual oral sex after they first got naked.

By asking her, with a gesture, to perform oral sex? How did he not have consent?

Read the account — he didn’t have sex with Grace without her consent.

Right. And he didn’t rape her.

This isn’t “Why didn’t she just quit.” What does someone have to lose by saying no or leaving on a date?

I don’t recall Alex screwing things up for Kara. She’s been pretty useful. And Alex came along for the Earth X crossover and kicked ass pretty darned well.

And I think that’s, interestingly, true of any character designed just as the love interest.

Well, Iris isn’t aimless anymore. These shows handle women characters pretty darned well.

Read the original story. They had mutual oral sex before this — and were both naked. That doesn’t make any of this cool, but adds some context.

Nobody’s saying LOL, Why didn’t she leave. At least I’m not. I get why she didn’t leave and have been in similar situations. But I also don’t think that not reading nonverbal cues when you’re both naked and having relations is, as described, sexual assault.