If you ever have the opportunity to talk to Steve Bisciotti about Kaepernick, I suggest loosening him up a bit first with drinks. On his own he’s a bit dry.

He did shake hands. It wasn’t the most squared up handshake, he just reached over with looking directly, but he did shake hands. It’s hard to see because it’s behind the monitors and below the bottom of the camera frame. I agree his attitude could have been more gracious overall, but he was respectful enough to…

However horrible the Bumblebee spinoff will be, Cena is likely to be a bright spot, particularly if they manage to hire a decent writer and infuse his character with comedy. His comedy chops are legit.

Well, unless they say “No.” firmly. -William Saletan.

Okay, wow, he is kind of hilariously baby faced. :)

She’s human but was raised by Vulcans.

Fake moustaches are tougher in a post-HD world.

That’ snot what I’m arguing for at all. I don’t think handholding or being more obvious was the problem. Defenders of the show are acting like people who didn’t like the show or didn’t like Danny “don’t get it”. We get it. We just think the writing and acting of “it” was poor. We don’t need it to have been dumbed…

Again, this weird false narrative that io9 had some unique dislike for Iron Fist. A very cursory glance at reviews on RT show several mentions of Finn Jones lacking charisma or being miscast.

I think Finn Jones and the showrunner together simply didn’t do a very good job of portraying whatever character motivations and internal life they may have intended for Danny. It’s obvious Danny had gone through terrible trauma, the question is, why did so few people sympathize with his struggles?

Iron Fist got the lowest critic scores and audience scores on both Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic, of all the Marvel Netflix series. The idea that it wasn’t very good isn’t something io9 just made up.

Everyone’s mileage may vary, but uh...lots of folks thought Jones was pretty underwhelming in the role. I think he’s one of Marvel’s (TV and movies) few flat out casting miscues.

The whole point of this discussion is everyone is trying to find an alternative platform to network to TV. So no, apparently CBS doesn’t feel they can still make TV on TV, at least not exclusively. Thus Discovery...not being aired on TV.

I have no opinion on the smartness of the move, I simply explained CBSs reasoning for doing it. My point to Mabhatter being, regardless of how stupid or doomed to failure they think the decision is, CBS can’t simply throw up their hands and go “I guess we’ll stop making TV any more.”

Welp, Mabhatter has spoken. Time for CBS to give up and shut themselves down, because a random person on the internet has done a deep analysis of their business model and finds it lacking.

Network TV is dying, so everyone is trying to find a way to put their stuff on a streaming service of some kind. CBS is using this Trek show to help anchor their streaming service the same way UPN used Voyager to help launch their channel back in the day. Being on All Access also gives them more leeway content-wise.…

Hey, no problem. :)

I didn’t see her as making fun of the strippers. She also mentioned her castmates were being “pg 13" as well. The punchline is she wanted to create a certain sort of jokey-embarrassing sex fantasy type scenario in this fancy strip club, and the reality was people just sitting around trading itunes playlists.

Society changes (much) faster than evolution, and technology changes faster than society. There may be significant disconnects between the evolutionary pressures that caused them to develop these abilities, how they see themselves or are trained to behave in the face of danger, and their current level of technology. …

“It sounds like every other overproduced, overwrought, computer generated, record company approved pop music crap in a can you can hear by hundreds of other artists.”