I love defending unpopular things - I’ll fight to the death over Spider-Man 3 - but the prequels? I don’t even know how I’d go about that.

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They just needed to execute virtually every aspect of the production in a way that wasn’t an utter failure.

I dunno, I feel like being slashed in the face with a stick would affect my situational awareness.

Is it still a “blown call” when they take several minutes to review the damn thing, and then decide they got it right the first time? I feel like at that point, it becomes...something else.

Yeah, I feel like it’s often an unpopular opinion, but how about we enforce the rules consistently, all the time?

Your colleagues at Jalopnik have been on the case since the incident. There’s video:

There were a couple of these at the home-based day care I attended as a kid. I had no idea what they were.

I definitely have mixed feelings about all of the possible solutions. It’s all in the execution, I guess.

I...don’t understand.

Fair enough, though I would personally exempt Georgiou Prime from that list. Everyone knew she was doomed before the show even aired.

Also, I don’t think I want to live in a universe in which you have to ask for consent before you save someone’s life.*

Yeah, you’re right that it’s more than that, but at worst, it’s still a case of doing the right thing for the wrong(ish) reasons.

Yeah, he’s seen DS9. He says in the review that he hasn’t seen VOY or ENT.

Kate Mulgrew deserved better than what they wrote for her.

They established pretty definitively that there is - Tilly’s the captain. That’s why they had to repaint the ship and synthesize the uniforms.

Sure, I think that makes perfect sense. Too many action movies will make you sick of action movies. Too many romantic comedies will make you sick of romantic comedies. I’ve been a comics fan for decades, but even I’ve given up on seeing every single superhero movie that comes out. But I have no issues with them…

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Yup, I had that thought as well. My best guess is they just updated it based on all the Klingon signals they were able to detect?

To follow up a bit, here’s the official timeline: