Was Trendacosta sick last night or something? Is that why no one’s written up the Star Trek: Discovery premiere as a total disaster despite the Twitter reactions being overwhelmingly positive?

This seems to work as of 3pm EDT:

Really surprised my endless rewatching of Trials and Tribble-ations hasn’t helped DS9 crack into this list.

io9 is perhaps my most visited website, but I am finding its negativity regarding Discovery a bit wearisome. If you go to some other sites they’re a lot more upbeat about it, without being blindly optimistic!

No. It doesn’t. And why is io9 constantly trashing Star Trek: Discovery?

I agree with all of this about ERW and Thandie. But yeah, Evan doesn’t stand a chance of winning where Thandie does in Best Supporting. There’s a whole science and politics on how they break it down.

Please give Thandie Newton all the awards!

I hope Lucasfilm gets the fuck away from A New Hope and starts expanding the universe.

I feel like someone should sit Ridley down, gently take his scripts away, say “well down thou good and faithful servant” and then lead him gently to a retirement home where all the residents believe they’re either actors, film crew or studio execs, then tell him he’s finally been given the unlimited funding and time…

Alien is a masterpiece and Ridley Scott will forever have my respect for that alone.

Prometheus is a terrible movie for the reasons that makes movies bad, not because of some expectations. I didn’t came in the theatre expecting an Alien movie, I went in expecting a good movie, possibly a good sci-fi one. I got a beautifully shot, decently-to-well-acted piece of crap.

So pat yourself on the back if you said the biggest problem with Prometheus was the fact it didnt have the alien in it.

Thanks for the comment Mark. There definitely wasn’t an easy solution. And Schulz, to his credit, stood apart from his peers. He was the only one to give it a shot; Glickman reached out to many other cartoonists; only some of whom got back to her. And of those, Schulz was the only one to follow through and actually…

This seems to be a “damned if you do, damned if you don’t” situation.

I’m so glad we took a terrifying creature like the xenomorph and reduced it to the standard “weaponized lifeform” trope. YAY!

If a body that fits #1 and 2 orbits another object that fits #1 and #2, then it is a moon. If it orbits a star (ie undergone fusion), then it is a planet.

They should have grandfathered Pluto in as a “planet” and gone with their new classifications for everything after that.

I love Mark Hamill. He just comes across as such a genuinely good dude.

But the audience doesn’t even know they’re British until 2 years after they have already filmed the movie.