But it won’t be a clean break. We haven’t seen the last of Black Panther, Guardians, Captain Marvel, Spiderman, Doctor Strange or Black Widow. And others, like Ant Man, probably also carry on.

My luck, I’d settle into my seat to discover a kid behind me who kicks my seat, a person to my left constantly chewing chips and celery sticks and a person to my right who insists on making small talk.

They can’t just repeat the formulas they were using in the 90s. It grew stale on TNG, and DS9 wound up being a significant evolution from TNG (and actually presaging modern serialized TV). A TNG purist would have many reasons watching DS9 to say “this isn’t Star Trek” — among other things, it savagely violates…

I haven’t been to a Broadway play. Is this what they do? Set story-appropriate lyrics to the tune of familiar songs?

Not even Bradley Whitford? He voted for Obama. He’d have voted for Obama for a third term if he could!

Fuck off and die. 

Yeah, I also loved that show. It was damn near my favourite comedy on TV while it was running (slight edge to Veep and Silicon Valley). But there were a lot of people who hated it. I have no idea why, but it didn’t have the broad appeal that it seemed like it should have. Maybe it was too meta for its own good, given…

I was going to comment that this character (and even the actress playing her) seemed to be noticeably reminiscent of Stephanie Beatriz’s character on that other, also Mike Schur-produced NBC show.

I’ve been on these threads giving Zack shit for his excessively critical reviews. I even lied and said I was so fed up I’d stop reading them. Well Zack, I’m here to apologize. You may have been on to something.

I already knew there were idiots on Twitter, because every one of Trump’s lunatic tweets gets tens of thousands of likes.

I think we also have to remember that in this universe, Ned Stark’s and Jon Snow’s conventionally honourable choices got them killed. Oberyn, to some extent, also got killed for trying to do an honourable (albeit vain and vengeful) thing.

Billy Corgan, is that you?

“It may seem silly to pit Marvel movies and DC movies against each other, since they’re all comic book movies and the audience for one tends to be the exact same audience for the other, it’s not a fair fight, you’d have to be sadistic.”

If you want a really foreboding sign, how about seeing that you’re about to board a... “737 MAX 8"

Dedicating an episode to make you care about a character just before they get killed is a TV trope as old as... probably The Sopranos, which isn’t *that* old, but anyways, Discovery isn’t the first to do it. Movies sometimes do it too, at a more micro level—characters enjoy their most sympathetic moment just before the…

The source of my tears was more the reaction and sense of loss conveyed by the other characters. The reaction shots—especially of Tilly--were really effective, and I felt sad for them losing their friend. That hit hard, for me, not withstanding that Airiam was window dressing before this episode.

Geez yeah, it sure would be embarrassing to make a comment about something without reading its context.

In retrospect, that was very obvious, and I’d really like to delete my comment if I could. 

I wonder what the rules are to prevent people from just circling around the drive through again and getting another coffee. Or—gasp—doing a 360 at the cash register and ordering another small.

They now have corporate synergy with Tim Hortons , which is a coffee titan (their original brew is not very good, but their dark roast is pretty good, and they have some tricks with cream and sugar for the calorie-unconscious that make the coffee taste like candy). It should be easy for BK to leverage that industry…