Same. I’m firmly in the Nathaniel Camp.

So I get in my Ferrari
Then take an African safari
And I go to the jungle too
Cuz they’ve got monkeys like the zoo

I cried laughing at the “JOSH GROBANNNNN” reveal. Which is convenient because I was already crying due to the most painfully honest depiction of BPD I’ve ever seen on television.

I was on the fence, but I now firmly prefer Nathaniel. He read that whole packet and still waited up for her, understood her, waited for her to come home. I think she is going to just dropkick his wounded heart and man, that bums me out but might help him grow.

Paula seeing that as a good thing was probably my favorite small character moment of the episode.

I’d personally give it an A -, which is rare for a first season show. The main reason is that it really has heart. Though a lot of things are implied that is the point, it gives it a stronger feeling of desperation when it is basically just two people that are actively determining the fate of the crew while both are…

Yeah, I seriously enjoyed this episode. Tyler and Burnham seem to have some good chemistry, and the episode was just a joy to watch. Also I love the episode titles.

I’m glad I’m not the only one feeling the Micheal/Ash ship. It’s especially hot because I’m sure he’s a Klingon but doesn’t know he’s a Klingon and he’s really attracted to her.

Great episode, poor review.

Re: Stamets and Burnham

Only, what two episodes? And I’m already liking them as a potential romantic pairing. There’s some great writing going on there.

“We haven’t had time to get used to a Burnham and Tyler romance; it could work, but shoving their feelings for each other into the center of a story like this is awkward as hell.”

Indeed. Burnham and Tyler are smokin’ up the screen.

This was clever, romantic, and fun. Very good pacing.

This episode provided us the only authentically adolescent moment in the show’s run, where the big brother whose name I forget, after extolling the virtues of freaks to his brother, completely ignores a cute Souxsie at the party in favor of playing Duckie (see, I do references too!) to a spoken-for Nancy. Freaks don’t…

He also failed to kill Archie’s dad, so I’m willing to buy into Jughead’s (joke) explanation that the dude just has terrible aim.

Archie: “There’s a murderer on the loose!”

I’m not surprised. The Groovie Goolies are fairly obscure. I only know them because I was a kid at the time their reruns were airing in syndication. I wouldn’t expect the young whippersnappers doing closed captioning today to recognize the reference. (If it wasn’t a coincidence, but it would be a surprising one if it…

One of the best things about this show is that it makes me feel unique. As I am apparently the only person in the history of everything whose first Star Trek experience is this show.

No wonders this it took 10+ years to get Starr Trek back on TV. No one is ever fucking happy beause they think if ST isn’t done EXACTLY the way they think it should be done, the best it is is “not terrible”.