Are you fucking kidding me

But... that isn’t a thing that anyone needs or wants or gains anything by having. We don’t have a gap in our lives to be filled by an “anti-” version of a TV show about dragons that’s now over. There is no demand for that at all. Do you all have high fevers or what’s going on

But then a tech billionaire asshole decided that he knew what was best for society, hatching a plan to seize control of the Dreaming by infecting it with A.I. intended to educate with facts and science instead of inspiring superstition and fantasy.

It’s astounding to me that Voyager, of all shows, handled that aspect of a character not just in a much more interesting way, but in a more realistic way, in the sense that realism has to ground suspension of disbelief for something like Star Trek. A metaphor has to connect to work. Picard’s only works if the audience…

You’re pretty much just writing the story you’d rather watch into this one.

we discover that Rios, too, has a connection to the synthetics; his old ship met two ambassadors from Soji’s home planet, and his old captain murdered them both on orders from Starfleet.

...huh? I saw Temple of Doom many times as a kid, and nothing about it made me upset or felt like anything more weighty than a live-action cartoon, just like Raiders or Last Crusade. It wasn’t a “tough watch” at all.

Both the movies you name are fun, fast-moving and shallow as a kiddie pool.

Years later, it seems absurd that Raiders lost Best Picture to a more obvious prestige-grab like Chariots Of Fire.

Fear of “Russian interference” is “genuine fear” insofar as some people are not faking it and genuinely entertain xenophobic paranoia about “Russians” because it’s more comfortable for them than accepting the reality of United States domestic politics.

Did you time travel here from the Internet of the late 1990s?

Why do you miss them? Because suddenly the United States government isn’t “sweetly quaint”? It never was.

Just because you’re depressed doesn’t mean everyone else is, dude.

Why would a plumber become an Amazon driver to make money? That makes no sense unless he were somehow legally barred from being, you know, a plumber.

It’s almost like you can’t buy or vote your way out of a system where capitalists control the means of production...

Not really

Stop whining.

Please don’t insult the Kids in the Hall like that.

That’s not allowed on the Internet. You have to either freak out at how good something you’ve never seen will surely be, or you have to freak out at how it’s terrible and a sign that all the world is on the brink of collapse.

Good.