Yeah, I guess I meant 'serialised' in very relative terms. Maybe Buffy is an appropriate comparison in terms of the storytelling engine?

It keeps forever, if that helps.

Totally agree with this. The attendant hysteria about PC university students is one of the dumbest pseudo-controversies ever drummed up by the right and dutifully perpetuated by centrist liberals.

It's certainly the one that appeals to me the most, with the more serialised storytelling and critical take on the utopian politics of the Federation.

Hahaha, true enough.

I guess I'm okay with the occasional implication that he has romantic feelings for a companion, but it helps that a) he and Romana were the same species and b) it wasn't laid on with a bloody trowel like Ten and Rose, haha.

The story was about the psycho in question bringing a fucking lawsuit, my dude. That's why we heard about it, not just because the woman was texting. Poor cinema etiquette isn't newsworthy in and of itself.

Absolutely horrible. Tennant is my least favourite post-2005 Doctor by a pretty wide margin, and RTD turning him into a dashing romantic lead is a huge part of why. The hangover from that era led them to completely waste Martha as the "rebound chick," and it's really only a few Donna episodes and Blink that make that…

I just said it was a bit cavalier in an AV Club comment section, friend, and I said it for the exact same reasons you've clearly laid out. I'm not asking for him to resign, or self-flaggelate, or even tweet a clarification or reaction. I didn't call him an asshole, or say he was earnestly taking the side of the…

Stop this immediately.

Teju Cole wrote a short piece a few years ago about how condescending "First World Problems" is (basically: people in developing countries also deal with trivial annoyances, have cell phones, sometimes get served a shitty cup of coffee etc) and hooooo boy did people get mad at me when I brought it up. Apparently if…

I always like to give shows three episodes before making up my mind. Who says they have to be the first three? I'll add this to Scrappybilly's recommendations and see if I finally submit fully to the lure of Trek.

Hmmm. James Gunn's tweet seems pretty cavalier given the kind of hate that is undoubtedly brewing for this woman in the online manosphere. It wouldn't surprise me in the least to see her get doxxed and/or swatted in the coming days.

Ah cool, thanks. I'll check 'em out and let you know!

I've seen Wrath of Khan and liked it quite a bit, actually. First Contact I wasn't so keen on, but that's partly because I just viscerally dislike Alfre Woodard (too much ACTING) and partly, I guess, because it felt like a movie continuation of a series I hadn't seen, which is, in fact, the case.

Maybe.

No.

Yes.

Pretty much my reaction. I've never been that into Trek (two of my friends insisted Voyager was the best place to start, and it sucks pretty hard so the only other Trek I've seen is the 2009 reboot, which I enjoyed the hell out of, and a couple of eps of TOS for a media studies class about 15 years ago), but this…

If you're trying to make me retroactively dislike a great season of TV, it's just about working.