The man deserves no hype. Guy who hated women who killed five while they were probably asleep.

This is what really frustrates me. It felt like the end of season 4 was launching a new chapter for the show that easily could’ve lasted another three or four seasons. I would’ve preferred that Paramount end it when the show was at the a natural creative endpoint, rather than in the middle of something new. ‘Five…

BOOOO!

Dammit. I wish I could be surprised by this news, but it’s pretty much written in stone these days that no show lasts beyond 5 seasons because it involves paying actors a miniscule sum in residuals, and we can’t possibly allow that.  

Lower Decks is so well written and there is so much Star Trek to poke fun at that it…

Who wants to bet they have a contractually obligated pay bump after 5 seasons?

Why are they canceling all of their shows at 5 seasons? They used to give them at least 7.

No, no you bastards, LD deserves more than 5 seasons, DISCO GETS 5, LD deserves twice that!!!

“everyone gets the same chance to speak up!” says the guy who dismisses every dissenting opinion

“surely the fact that some people are able to claw their way up from the bottom of the pile negates the idea that some people are born with a fast-track to the top. I’m quite smart!”

Won’t someone think of the shareholders?!

If you don’t think that companies are plotting ways to have ‘AI’ chatbots replace huge swaths of human customer service workers, buddy, I have an office complex in India to sell you.

I think with them in particular, it wasn’t just that S8 flopped. It was that S8 flopped and they were reportedly given the option to have more episodes and time to improve it and they didn’t take it. I think the talk around that time was that they were supposedly focused on pitching something to Netflix that I think…

I hate to give credit to disney, but they were smart enough to recognize that Benioff is a fraud. Netflix not so much!

“Not only am I on a subpar cell phone network, you’re actively paying me to go see bad movies in theaters that you are somehow spending advertising dollars on?”

“clamoring for details about a stranger’s private life”

The trailers for this all have this godawful reverential nostalgia-haze over everything, while the original was an irreverent comedy. This review makes me unclear of what the tone is. It mentions “the most Paul Rudd character ever” and refers to jokes a bunch. Are these treacly trailers all just bad marketing?

Honestly I wish they had stayed in the Krakoa era for the next 20 years. There were so much unused potential in that setting.

It is nice that Gail Simone will be writing X-Men. Less nice that on the same day Marvel announced NFT comics in the year 2024.

I’m sure it will be a great creative team, but I admit I find losing Krakoa as a setting a step back no matter what the new status quo is.

Some people like to sneer at mainstream superhero books because nothing’s permanent, etc., but I have to say, the Krakoa period lasting 5 years is a pretty good long run for a status quo to last.