I think the biggest problem they had with Janeway was that... they really hadn’t nailed down who the character was. It felt a bit like her character traits are “She’s a woman” and “She’s the captain”, with nothing else really nailed down.
Yeah, that was actually the episode that made me stop regularly turning in for Voyager. It did something that even “Threshold” couldn’t do. Maybe the only redeeming thing about that episode was SFDebris’ (because of the subject matter, very NSFW language, so I can’t link it) review of it, as his attitude was just as…
Up to that point in the canon, they didn’t. It was something Vulcan males went through.
You’re . . . not entirely wrong. But you’re also not right. Pulaski did not go down well with the audience, but in this case, it wasn’t her gender which made her so grating. It was that she bullied Data, who was essentially the audience favorite character. And it’s actually worse by contemporary standards, because the…
Vive la France! Vive la liberte!
Still, his vow hasn’t halted the theorizing over what would happen if Trump loses the election and refuses to leave the White House in January 2021, and Trump’s ramblings about the evils of vote-by-mail—the safest way to vote during the covid-19 pandemic—don’t quiet down the unease towards Trump potentially defying…
Yeah, the one addendum in the case of Kes is that we actually know for certain that Jennifer Lien wasn’t initially supposed to leave the cast. It was Garrett Wang, whose character Harry Kim the writing team effectively “couldn’t figure out”. But what saved Garrett was that People Magazine named him one of the 50…
I’ve mentioned this before, but a major part of why Kira Nerys is such a dynamic, amazing character that I, to this day, admire and respect (honestly, if I ever have a daughter, my first suggestion for a name would be “Kira”) is because she’s the Mk. II version of the same mold that broke Tasha Yar. Think about it:…
Respectfully, I disagree. His scheme, such as it was, could be summarized in a single sentence: use Bruhl’s existing knowledge of Bucky’s time in HYDRA to drive a wedge between Captain America and Iron Man, and through them, the Avengers.
In general, Fauci made recommendations based on the data he had and the situation at the time. When new data became available or the situation changed, he changed his recommendations. That doesn’t mean he was “wrong,” it doesn’t mean he “flip-flopped,” it means he has a flexible mind, is able to adjust his hypothesis…
It’s also, speaking as someone who is both a taxpayer and who received at least a modicum of education from public schools, a complete non sequitur. This:
I don’t disagree. But I also think that putting Civil War on the list was a bold and justified choice, because that movie got a lot of undeserved flak from the fans merely for giving them a villain they didn’t expect. Zemo was a fantastic villain, but precisely because he was a nobody who couldn’t attack the Avengers…
Any fair assessment of blockbusters from this decade would ultimately end up with Mad Max: Fury Road and The Avengers as #1 and #2. The only real question would be the ordering, and justification. Mad Max is, weirdly enough for a film whose screenplay was essentially assembled in the edit, pretty much the apotheosis…
I was thinking more along the lines of the obvious nickel-and-diming of the field maintenance, which creates all the divots that confetti’d RGIII’s knee. But yeah, that works too.
How bad a husband do you have to be to make “bathes weekly” an irresistable turn-on? Truly, the northmen must have been a nation of kings.
I for one would go for “Washington RG III’s Knee”, as a tribute both to how Dan Snyder’s management practices directly ruin the lives of his laborers, and for his tendency to buckle in ugly fashion after going at high speed in the wrong direction.
If it makes you feel any better, I’m pretty sure “Fox News Segments” are listed as cursed items in the Dungeons & Dragons Players Handbook. The stat drain effect only lasts 1d6 days, so it should wear off.
Jeffrey Combs nailed that scene, and back when Zach Handlen reviewed DS9 for the old A.V. Club website, and Zach offhandedly asked for a spoiler-free description of the best Jeffrey Combs episode, everyone got, and accepted, the reference:
Well, I also think, especially in the case of science fiction actioners like Star Wars and Star Trek, is framing and context. Framing and context are simultaneously necessary for understanding and accepting the stakes of what’s happening in the film, and something that Abrams especially is so bad at.
