I had pretty much the exact same reaction from the headline, though reading the article was somewhat reassured that it was described as a spin-off with a female “protagonist”, rather than a female “cast”, or a “female spin-off”).

...In 2006. He didn’t direct a movie from 2011 through 2017, either. 

I haven’t seen or heard about Emilio Estevez in ages, and so looked him up to make sure he wasn’t dead.

Black Panther was very good, and had major pop culture impact. I don’t mind it on the list, at all.

So far this has the ingredients of passable, but quickly forgettable Prestige TV.

I’m not sure how well this will tie into the rest of the story, either thematically or plot-wise. In this episode, it feels like a bit of sideshow, meant to generate some action while the main plot drags over the middle of the season.

I don’t think we need more Ghostbusting, specifically, but Murray’s Venkman is an iconic character I’d enjoy revisiting (almost any comedy with Murray will grab my attention - Garfield excepted), and the buddy dynamic with Ackroyd and Hudson was really good. There’s a repeatable formula within that.

In short, “since Netflix is losing a large chunk of it’s desirable content, they’ll be charging more”. I agree this logic is suspect.

I give more weight to the series regulars. Across 25 seasons (I think?) of TNG , DS9, Voyager and Enterprise, the pool of people who appeared on 1 or 2 episodes is f’ing enormous. That’s like tracking Law & Order alumns. 

I was way too big of a fan of Back to the Future as a kid to not be really interested in this. I walked around with three wristwatches, and had a half dozen more clocks in my room, b/c Doc Brown.

Funny that our reviewer managed to spot two Seinfeld alumns (and I don’t even don’t know who the second one was (Jason Alexander was in an episode last season - but I don’t think in this one), in addition to Warburton under deep prosthetics), but didn’t recognize that Billingsly was also a Star Trek alumn. And more…

Data’s cat on Star Trek: TNG (Spot) was similarly disdained by the cast/crew, but evidently somewhat more beloved by the writers.

The IDW comics - which span TOS, TNG, Discovery, and even the JJ movie-verse - achieve a lot of the stuff you might expect to see in an animated show. I’ve only read the Discovery comics, but they were really well done, and capitalized on the storytelling freedom of the medium.

I also grew up watching TNG, and it really annoys me to hear him say it was “always fully formed adults”.

The more fringe pay cable channels sustained themselves pretty well (until being busted by torrents and streaming), through bundling. Obviously, the cable/satellite companies, which frequently also owned said fringe channels, were in a position to enforce the bundles. But I’d still watch for something similar to…

Three Billboards is a fundamentally well-made movie, with a well constructed story, in a way that Green Book isn’t. Green Book is hacky and predictable. Both are buoyed in awards by having A-list actors and by having a social message that the Foreign Press wants to be seen as embracing, but that only gets you so far.

It also struck me that this episode was really heavily reliant on the interpersonal stuff as the meat of the episode, rather than a sci-fi plot. It played as sort of a workplace drama/comedy, that just happened to take place on a space ship in the future.

What streaming service are these shows on? Who needs to know!

I’m not sure how much this is “patriarchy”. It’s privilege/entitlement, certainly, but I think it might have less to do with entitlement of being a guy (I can’t imagine a male PA expecting to get away with this shit) than it does with the entitlement of being a star.

He planned to get her fired for objecting to sexual harassment? ...That’s some 4d chess. If the production had telegraphed its embrace of sexual harassment that clearly, then I maintain that the bigger horror here is CBS.