Are you reading any of the replies? I’ll repeat what I posted above:

Yes, I’m entirely fine with the decision on the Orville. I’m saying, by comparison, leaving behind a collaborator is not some horrible act. Historically speaking collaborators are considered to be on about the same level as pedophiles in prisons.

He killed a ship full of Krill adults, including likely in some cases the parents of those kids. Lorca left behind a collaborator. I wonder if people have read up on what people did to WW2 collaborators. Saying one event was markedly morally superior to the other is absurd.

Again: These abusive men like Weinstein could easily have sex if it were just about sex. They could easily hire high end escorts or have trophy wives and mistresses. Their behavior is about exerting power over people. I think your insistence that men who behave like this to other men must be closeted lets abusive…

That’s all true, but not the point of my post. My point was, there’s always this “Oh man, now people are gonna be so sensitive people are gonna get accused of sexual harassment for totally innocent stuff.” contingent. And I’m saying “Hey, instead of worrying about whether your friendly innocent gesture is going to be…

I feel like there are a bunch of “innocent overtures” that are easy to avoid.

But they aren’t, not in any way that has practical meaning. These are men who self-identify as straight, date, marry, and have kids with women. For them it’s not sexual, or if it’s sexual it’s at a level so deeply buried it’s not usefully unpackable. It’s just a form of dominance. The Harvey Weinstein’s of the world…

“And here I have to object to your points about characterization. It should not take six episodes to establish your main characters. A good writer can do that in a few well chosen beats. I was just rewatching S4 of The Wire. It takes all of one episode to get a clear sense of who those kids are.”

I have to hugely disagree with you about Louise. I find her endlessly irritating. She’s that quirky babble-y nerd character but in the hands of these writers she’s just insufferable. Also, the actor playing her: CLOSE YOUR MOUTH JESUS GOD.

Thor 1 is amusing and harmless and small. Loki is a lot of fun and he’s offscreen for too much of the movie. The end feels like it takes place on a backlot or something. But Dark World is dreeeary. It has a couple good set pieces, but the villain is terrible, Jane Foster spends half the movie in a coma, it’s just a…

I feel that Iron Man 3 was a decent Shane Black action movie starring Robert Downey Junior but kind of not much of an actual Iron Man movie.

Under normal circumstances I don’t drink, and in the rare circumstances I do it’s in great moderation. I’ve never been drunk in my life. That doesn’t mean alcoholism isn’t a real thing or alcohol abuse isn’t an issue with discussing.

It’s not that I have a low bar for sci-fi, it’s that I’m okay with a candy bar being a candy bar and I’m okay with a hamburger being a hamburger, while I recognize that neither are great from the perspective of a nutritionist. I also try to retain historical perspective: Many shows I love had weak first seasons,…

Music (again, slavish TNG pastiche but that’s fine), visuals, occasionally the humor actually hits, and I’m just a general purpose sci-fi nerd, with a particular fondness for Space Opera. If you make a show with spaceships and robots and laser guns and all that nonsense and it isn’t actively godawful, I’ll probably…

Not necessarily. There are a lot of “grabass and horseplay” guys who identify as straight but don’t respect people’s bodies. They poke, they pinch, they teabag, etc. For them it’s not necessarily sexual, it’s just a dominance move, but the result is very similar.

Two CBS subscriptions?

Enh. I like the Orville, but I think people are being overly reductive about what Trek “is”. Trek has been a lot of things over the years.

I don’t think it’s baffling. I like the Orville. I also recognize the Orville has significant flaws (the plots, which I enjoy as 90's style sci-fi concepts, are generally shallowly conceived and simplistically executed and it has massive tone control problems). A professional critic is looking at a show in a much more…

Yeah, it’s absolutely a TNG pastiche with just enough humor to fend off a lawsuit with a satire defense.

Any kind of perfume/bath bombs/candles/soaps type store. Sephora, Yankee Candle, Lush, etc, simply because the smells hammer into my brain and give me a brutal headache instantly.