Look, I love The National, but if they start playing at any wedding for any reason get the hell out. Kool & The Gang they are not. That is not wedding music.

Come the fuck onto bridge or fuck the fuck off, Number One!

I’ve heard a little more information on the show’s premise: It’s the story of a space hairdresser and a cowboy. He’s got a tinfoil pal and a pedal bin. His father’s a robot and he’s fucking fucked his sister. Lego. They’re all made of fucking Lego.

Honestly, me actually find it satisfying that you being such a horrible person is going to prevent you from enjoying what shaping up to be a terrific show. Some with such toxic, hateful point of view not deserve nice things.

There’s a big difference between a fuzzy, low-bandwidth hologram that’s actually just the image of a real person, and the “holograms” from the later shows that are fully corporeal, and sometimes capable of independent thought.

Hey, while you’re missing one of the main points of a franchise, do you want to say some racist or homophobic shit while claiming to be a X-Men fan also?

Hard to judge the ensemble thing on one episode. DS9 first episode was almost entirely about Sisko, and yet it had a lot of episodes like “Improbable Cause/The Die Is Cast” or “Valiant” that focus on characters who aren’t even part of the main cast.

The first clue that Georgiou wasn’t long for this world was when Michelle Yeoh showed up in the credits as a “special guest star”. Plus the promotional clips couldn’t resist showing off the special effects of the battle scenes, which made it pretty clear the Shenzou was going to wind up crippled (at best). So I can’t…

That was pretty good. I would rank it as the second best Star Trek series premiere behind DS9.

Man, it is SO GOOD to have Star Trek back on television. I didn’t realize just how much I missed it until the start of the premiere and hearing all the technobabble, and figuring out the timeline re: the Klingons, and all that good stuff.

If nothing else, the show understands the most important rule of Starfleet: anybody above the rank of captain is completely useless.

I used to eat the jarred version during RH (now I usually skip because it takes up space in my stomach that I need for my mother’s excellent chopped liver), but I think I mostly doused it with extra hot horseradish. We tried homemade a neigbor brought once but since I am so used to the jarred I didn’t like it any…

Honestly, I think this is an excellent point. While ultimately, toxic dudebro nerds are responsible for their own actions, they don’t come out of nowhere, and there’s a reason this show appeals to them so much.

Except my dad. His silly walks still slay me after 45 years.

I don’t know about this bee show; apparently there’s penises in it, and I can’t say for a fact my son first heard the word fuck during Caillou, but it certainly sounds like something I would say during it.

My toddlers are really into dinosaurs, so they watch a lot of the Land Before Time movies.

Seconded.

Star Trek VI was a good movie though. Well shot, well paced, good performances, and a nice allegory for the end of the Cold War (the whole debate about whether to let the Klingons have safe refuge in Federation space is... a bit more current than it should be, sadly.)

Rick and Morty does that interesting thing that dime novels and gangster movies used to do - it condemns its mostly reprehensible central character all the time, but also allows viewers to revel in and tacitly celebrate their transgressive, anti-social qualities. (Lots of pop culture does it, then and now). But…