I think the EMP that disabled the self-destruct may have just been a routine side effect of the wormhole, so it was actually the least of my issues.

Una. He called her Una. Which isn’t a joke, it’s a name that they gave her in a Star Trek book series. The books were not canon, but calling her that in this show made at least the name canon.

The Bronn threat hung over those scenes in front of the fireplace like the sword of Damocles. I thought either Tyrion or Jaime could eat a crossbow bolt at any moment, and it heightened the whole thing. I think there was even a crosscut to Arya practicing her bow and arrow at one point, just to toy with us.

I have a theory for why this show is so divisive.

It doesn’t actually matter whether Conan or whichever writer actually pitched the joke intended to copy. It’s just whether it is a copy.

This is the second time this season (the other being the upside-down episode to save Culber) where they set a ticking clock to ramp up tension, repeatedly reminded us about the ticking clock, then inundated us with sloooooooooowly paced, impossibly sappy character drama.

I can imagine Michael Weatherly being a monstrous asshole on the set of Bull, and that when CBS management hears about it, they fire the person who complained. 

Exactly.

Who are you arguing against? Because this has nothing to do with anything I’ve said. Killing Eve is burning through three show runners in three seasons. I don’t give two fucks what reasons they have. My point was that, in American culture, that is basically unheard of for a successful show, and that if it ever…

“Has another show he’s more interested in” is word for word the explanation for Bryan Fuller leaving Discovery 

British TV traditions are so different from American ones. Could you imagine if there was a CBS/NBC/ABC/FOX smash hit, and the show runner got kicked to the curb? Not just once, but two years in a row? Well, we need not really imagine, because this is basically the story of Star Trek: Discovery, and it was widely…

They didn’t plop onto Disco totally out of the blue, but his faked death was a bit of a contrivance, then his joining s. 31 and being really passionate about it was a bit of a contrivance (not totally out of line with the character defined in s. 1, but still forced), then his being placed as a “liaison” on Disco was re…

They’ve recast the guy who played K’ol (also a seemingly cool and well liked guy) into two other Klingon roles just this season, so there’s certainly precedent for it.

I liked season 1 of this show a lot, but the fact that it has a season 2 just makes me bitter that Jean Claude Van Johnson (released on Prime at basically the same time as Tick) didn’t get a second season.

From what I see on social media, and what I observed in person at a convention that featured the main cast, Anson Mount also gets on fabulously well with everyone. Actors are obviously capable of pretending, but pretty much everyone on the cast seems to genuinely like and care about each other.

I really like Mary Chiefo who plays L’Rell. I follow her on Twitter and she’s a delight. And from the photos she’s in, she seems really beloved among the cast & crew, and is a main stay of convention events. The guy who plays Ash also seems well liked. And I think the writers/producers may be sentimental about their…

The terminatrix in T3 with self-inflatable tits was... not readily forgettable.

Marvel certainly has a deep enough roster of characters that it shouldn’t *need* to re-cast, but it might be tempting.

Not sure what’s funny here. There’s a Black Widow movie in pre-production.

(a) Star Trek has >50 years of TV shows and 13 movies, created by countless different people, over which to try maintaining continuity, which makes the degree of difficulty very different.