My favorite description of Lower Decks I’ve seen is that it’s reverent humor. All of its jokes are the exact same ones that fans have been making about the franchise for years.

You’re over 20 years late for The Rock’s first rap verse

I have some alternate cover ideas myself:
- Flip the baby vertically to imply it drowned, thus obscuring its penis.
- Add people to the bottom of the pool pointing and laughing at the baby’s penis.
- Give the baby an inner tube with a miniature version of his head on the plug a la Wade the Duck from the old Garfield…

Recreate that old joke:
“Man, this water’s cold!”
“It’s deep too!”

Based on his last three movies that have actually been released, I can’t imagine how bad the scripts are that he couldn’t get made.

Schitt’s Creek (Catherine O’Hara excepted) was a monstrously overrated and overawarded, perfectly nice little sitcom. A bit twee, a bit cheap, too broad at times, but fine. No more than that, and it’s time we stopped pretending it was.

This may well lead to an actual MCU musical. Come to think of it, that might actually be a workable medium for the Inhumans.

Be warned, Inside is very good but only tenuously a “comedy” special. It’s more of a depressing arthouse film about living during a pandemic lockdown.

yep, the "I'm about to be a huge Marvel star and I have no fucks to give about TV anymore" is palpable

I know the internet loves to do the whole, “You know that thing that sucks? Actually, it’s good! Trust me!” nonsense a lot. But the Super Mario Bros. movie? Really? Has it really come to this?

God I loved that movie. Here’s an old Siskel & Ebert review. One of the guys thought it was hilarious and the other one HATED it...

Going by the only song I know from it - “How Do You Talk to an Angel?” - he wasn’t really an influence on this.

I think the original comment demonstrates a fundamental misunderstanding of the roles of both scholarship and criticism. Oddly enough, although it’s coming from the other direction, it’s the same misunderstanding that leads to people losing their shit whenever a critic doesn’t rave about the latest Disney…

Agreed on both fronts. English dictionaries are descriptive, not prescriptive; but that doesn’t mean I can’t badger people to not use words that add nothing to the language. If people have a right to make up new words for no good reason, I have a right to discourage them from doing so.

The Black Mirror “White Christmas” ep basically ripped off the Deep Space 9 episode “Hard Time.”

The only thing I’d say about Wrath of Khan is that its definitely different in feel then TOS. I’m not going to argue too much though because it’s one of greatest sci-fi movies ever made. It’s profoundly good with how it carries themes of aging both in it’s characters and it’s actors. Kirk struggling with being off a…

DS9 is, in my opinion, the best Star Trek series - it actually shows what happens when you stick around and see your choices play out, for better or worse, and on top of all of that, it also set so many firsts for the series, and for television in general. Black commanding officer - and, later, Captain - who’s also a…

Don’t get me wrong, I have no problem with the optimism, or the moralizing, or the heavy-handedness. Particularly because so many people who complain about modern Trek being “social justice warrior crap” or whatever seem to always miss the fact that Trek was *always* about social justice, and pretty obviously so. But…

What you call “optimistic, heavy-handed moralizing” is exactly what I like about Star Trek. I want a show where the characters don’t all seem to hate each other. I want a show that isn’t full of nothing but brutal violence, pessimism, racism, and explosions. I want a show where the characters face at least plausibly…

Honest question... what does that even mean at this point? “Star Trek” like the original series?
I first got into Trek from TNG. Saw a couple eps of ToS, never had any real interest. Liked the movies a lot though. TNG only really got good when they STOPPED trying to be like “Star Trek.” But as far as “Star Trek” goes,…