Poorly. I’ve read none of the article and none of the comments. But the title asked a question, and I’ve answered. Bye, now.

I’m a day late to the article, so no one will read this, but I have a dramatic history with Pogs.

“The host, a guy called Jesse Hynes,”

But to what end?

The pressure to keep movies short doesn’t come from audiences nearly as much as it does from studios. You can screen a 2 hour movie 50% more times than a 3 hour movie, while charging precisely the same ticket price. And sure, You Me & Dupree isn’t filling up the seats at any of those screenings, “so what?”, but you…

It sounded like an issue with the sound mixing on the broadcast, which made it worse than it needed to be. Some people tweeting from the stadium thought it sounded good in person. It sounded to me like the vocals mic was turned down a bit to make room for a backing track, but for at least the first song there wasn’t a…

As I was heading to bed last night after watching an episode of The Punisher, Netflix insistently played the preview clip for this show, unsolicited. Usually, that would annoy me, but I sat through the clip every time it played, and it intrigued me.

I don’t mind the criticism. That’s what critics are for. Though I disagree with the critiques that fixate on the show being something different than what you think it should be as a Star Trek show, or how it fits in the continuity.

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.