Bingo my main critique of the first two episodes. Judd especially is contributing nothing useful to this series. He’s not funny, he’s not likable, he doesn’t drive plot or serve jokes in any essential way. Karen at least generates friction and adversity in a way that is functional for a comedy — you kind of need…

That’s a good articulation.

It’s a curious thing about celebrity that Kobe’s death is a national tragedy, but there were 4 other people on the helicopter whose name no one has even asked about.

I didn’t have the same read on the interviewer character as a “bigot”. My impression of her was that she was deliberately trolling Picard to react emotionally because it would make better TV. She knew he didn’t want to talk about his separation from Starfleet or the Mars attack (Picard’s Romulan live-in confirmed it 3…

Stewart has an interview in a TNG DVD extra feature where he talks about not having a French accent. He giggles as he mimics what it would have been like to read the opening credit monologue in thick French accent (“Space — zee final Frrronteeer”), and basically says it was an easy decision that the English accent…

There have been a few actors that I’ve seen a bunch of on TV playing with American accents, and then they give an awards show speech or I see them on a late night interview, and—WHAT? WHY HE IS FAKING AN ENGLISH ACCENT? I think both Hugh Laurie and Damien Lewis had me completely fooled. Dominic West and Idris Elba…

Well, it’s better than the trailer. And it definitely puts a lot of pieces put in interesting places to make this a comedy machine going forwards.

They leave so many breadcrumbs about the intelligence of the Dregs that you have to wonder if they were originally planning the conclusion to be a diplomatic resolution, but backtracked on it for some reason, maybe because it undercut the environmental message. But I think it’d have been a great resolution if humans…

Everything about Ben Stiller’s line delivery in this scene is perfection.

I wouldn’t have predicted Ken to be so dominant. Being a bit older hurts reaction time on the button, and James was presumably fresher on his trivia study, having pretty recently come off a long victory run.

I don’t think there’s much of a parallel between the problems with the movies and the problems with Discovery.

TNG was very much into morality plays. But from what I’ve seen of TOS (I haven’t watched all of it, I’m not nearly as big of a fan of it as later entries in the franchise), it’s much more of a dick-swinging adventure. The crew gets itself into a perilous situation, and problem solves its way out of it. What I think is…

I’d distinguish reality shows from game shows.

Only one valid answer under the rules of the game, but the number beside was something like 54, suggesting that when people were surveyed they had other (objectively incorrect) answers. Chicken might conceivably have been one of them, we’ll never know. 

lol to the nonchalant, “is he dead” - a cliffhanger that this video does not resolve.

...and suddenly popping into reverse and maxing out the revs going in the wrong direction

I have no inside information on this whatsoever, but I’d imagine they get spectacularly little time to work on most of these graphics. First you need to know the teams, and at this time of year, that’s a variable. Then someone needs to research and identify what stats to prepare graphics/animations for in the…

It’s a really bad trailer, though that doesn’t necessarily mean it’s a bad show. The Ianucci style of joke tends not to work very well in trailers, and this one is an especially bad effort at it. There’s still a good chance that the show will be better.

Ronny D Moore is currently helming an Apple+ series.

It’s maybe a very light spoiler—so caution if you haven’t seen ep. 8—but season 2 seems like it’s been set up to still feature Baby Yoda as a main cast member, which was a huuuuuge relief for me. Pedro Pascal is great as Mando, and the style, special effects and world building of this show are fantastic, but Baby Yoda…