Yeah, it’s one of many narrative conveniences that don’t actually make much sense. They need to get people on board for the Tyler-L’Rell narrative to do whatever it does and the admiral’s arc to close. Cue technobabble exposition sequence concluding that the only possible solution is to beam important members of the…

He was one jump away from retirement, dammit!

Well, that was entertaining, if banal.

Humans are very, very good at rationalizing whatever we do as for the best. “If I don’t do this he’ll ruin my career”, “as his lawyer it’s not just my job but my duty to be his defender and advocate”, “it’s not illegal to gather information and it’s not for me to assign blame”, “if they didn’t want his attention I’m…

Now, now, there’s no call for that sort of threatening language. The correct adjective form is “Hanseatic”.

The script is not entirely full of shit, surprisingly. Mostly, yes, but not entirely. It’s referring to the DNSSEC Root Signing Ceremony, which is run by the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority. It involves 7 different people doing an elaborately tamper-proofed update of one of the top level Domain Name System servers…

As for that ... have you ever seen the Punisher and the Predator in the same room?

This season is actually based on the Archie vs. Predator comic. The killer wears a hood because he’s a hideous murder alien with a fondness for teen decapitation, that’s also secretly in love with Betty.

I’m pretty sure that, in Harvey Weinstein’s mind, he has done nothing wrong. All those women didn’t resist sufficiently and were therefore just playing hard-to-get while secretly attracted to powerful men like him, which is also why they tried to placate him with Broadway invitations, or eventually yielded to his…

Great Ukko takes offense at your insinuation that the Finns were vikings and you will be banished to Tuonela forthwith to be eternally eaten by sacred bears. Ta!

1. Few people have traumatic memories of murder, or have much fear over it happening to them. Some people certainly do, and they are more sensitive to jokes about violence.

You may be confusing her with Suppergirl, the Girl of Meals.

Yeah, but past Treks (caveat: I’m not a huge trekker and I really need to finish watching the last season of DS9 one of these days) almost always asserted that compromising the Federation values is a bad idea that leads to bad outcomes. Discovery has been a lot more ambiguous thus far.

Pretty much every propulsion system in every sci-fi story is powerful enough to if not outright destroy planets then at least create enough of an impact crater to blot out the sun(s) and end all life on said planet. Highly energetic reactions are sort of fundamentally scary, and moving things quickly through the vast…

On one hand, I though the three episodes so far where all excellent and I’m willing to spend half a lunch/month on CBS for it. I guess they win this one.

I think the first two episodes did an excellent job setting the stage for this episode and Burnham’s current situation. Every single interaction she had with anyone not a slug monster in this episode was motivated by what happened in the previous two episodes and made perfect sense in (and only in) that context.…

On one hand, the ever-shrinking demand for skilled manual labor due to advances in automation is a huge issue that we need to tackle within the next couple of decades.

I was pretty excited about where the show was going with the backstab when it happened. I didn't see it coming and it seemed like a great opportunity to give agency and personality to a character who intentionally had neither so far. That excitement was squandered pretty damn quick by the show going exactly nowhere…

The pacing felt generally off to me. The show was languid with some things that should've been done briskly, and having the main characters actually meet up is a major one of those. It also rushed some plots that should been allowed to simmer, for instance I'd have appreciated more time seeing our heroes interact with…

A lot of it clearly is 3D but they do a decent job of making fit in with the background style, and the rough drawings + Ben-Day dots style they've settled for is great.