No, but they have holodecks, replicators, “warp” engines, the equivalent of phasers and photon torpedoes, tractor beams, penetrative long-range scanners, personal tricorder-like scanners. The lack of transporters is the only significant deviation from the technology of Star Trek, and it has been established that…

Ah. Too bad.

So, I did a little bit of speculative math. When Michael pulls up the graph of the reboots, we saw a pretty good chart of their time in the Bad Place. It was only the last 400 attempts, but we can assume those statistics hold more or less true the entire course. It’s hard to get an exact number here, but it looked to…

I laughed a lot. That’s a good thing. The plot itself was ice-thin, like water at 20 F, but it’s a second episode. Robinson and Scott are funny enough for me to want to tune in again tomorrow.

Actually, it’ll be Monday, because I watch on Hulu, but whatever. Here’s to hoping this show succeeds. Fox knows how to make a…

I think the pilot actually set up the groundwork for that well enough. I do think that letting the chemistry develop first is probably a good idea though.

I watched this episode immediately after reading the review and comments board for the pilot, and I’m pretty sure that scene was everything everyone hoped it would be.

Was he funny enough in This Is the End to make it worth watching? Because he’s the only part of the cast of that movie that didn’t make me want to tear my eyes out.

I was pleasantly surprised that there seemed to be a decent attempt at writing a straightforward science fiction story in the background.

I think The Good Place had a pretty good pilot, all things considered.

That PB&J joke was perfect.

There’s definitely going to be a lot to balance. I’m not actually too worried about Fox cancelling it so long as the ratings are decent. Fox has been pretty ambitious and forgiving with talented comedy casts (New Girl, Brooklyn Nine-Nine). If they can keep up that trend, I’ll be a happy man.

Fox clearly wants this show to succeed as a comedy, and I’ll be damned if Craig Robertson and Adam Scott aren’t funny as hell. I just don’t understand why they won’t greenlight an hour-long pilot. The sudden rushed kidnappings felt horribly, well, rushed.

That said, I think this show has potential for both an…

I don’t think there’s any reason Adam Scott couldn’t come back for a cameo or something.

Not quite. Gordon Malloy’s idiocy definitely takes the quality of the story down a couple notches. Getting better though.

Although I’m pretty sure Alara is a lot more than ten times stronger than a human, considering she can crush titanium into a ball with zero effort.

It was a pretty awesome cold open.

Oh God. Malloy babbling all over the place was awful. Made the first half of the episode pretty painful to watch.

FAIL

Maybe so, but he had a lot more chemistry as a leading man.

I don’t think the humor was stoner humor, but every time Malloy opened his mouth under cover, it was to spew a bunch of idiot ramblings that could have easily blown their cover. Mercer should have just ordered him to be quiet.