You can’t really hold the Writer’s Strike against the show, since they wrote and shot the whole thing a year ago. And given that the streaming era often consists of shows disappearing for years at a time, I can’t imagine the hype from this season won’t carry over to third season, even if it takes a while.

Does Batel have a first name?

Worrying about continuity with TOS is a mug’s game. We are far, far past that. There will be continuity in the broadest of strokes. Scotty obviously is going to survive the second half of the two-parter. Hang around long enough and Sulu and Chekov will surely pop up eventually. But anything more granular is a lost…

I’m excited they did a cliffhanger. Even if we probably won’t see the resolution for a year and a half, it ups the stakes and I think the anticipation and speculation will be a lot of fun.

This place is utterly dead.

I don’t recall saying that. I believe you’re the one making the assumption in this instance.

Counter-point: getting upset on stage would likely get her an undeserved “B” status from the general public. I’ve noticed that it’s an impulse that women are good at suppressing. We may not find out what she was actually thinking in that moment for a long time, if ever. 

“Blazing Saddles got away with some stuff that’s problematic by today’s standards.”

I swear to whatever entity you want, my husband is the spitting image of Mummy era Brendan Fraser. Like, people used to walk up and tell him all the time. But with beautiful, soft brown curls. He can also use tools, fix things, and is very nice. He has a Master’s, but is very proud of my PhD and how bright he thinks I…

I think Chris Evans seems pretty smart. I would add Jason Momoa to the list, though!

While I don’t entirely disagree with you, I do blame the fucking president of the United States for not making himself clear and at the very least coherent about the drug. Instead he wanted to brag about it solving all our problems or something. His daily press meetings aren’t helping anyone. If he would just shut the…

This movie absolutely terrified me when I saw it as a kid. My father had an obsession with conspiracy theories such as alien-human contact, the prophecies of Nostradamus and Edgar Cayce, the rising of Atlantis, the ancient aliens hypothesis and many others even more fanciful. He unwisely decided to share these ideas…

You can be honest - you’re just pleased about your cameo.

Here’s a picture of their captain

The ol Puss in Boots cuteness gambit!

I mean, can you imagine believing in the rhetoric that says your (general you) white skin is more valuable than my black skin and then go out looking all pasty and pimply and greasy? They wanna talk “white pride” and can’t even be Proactiv about it?

I was wondering why someone who had connections would get denied bail and get charged with hate crimes (reserved for people who attack police) in Louisiana until I read, “Matthews talked about converting from Catholicism to paganism last year.” In Louisiana, that’s almost (almost) as bad as suggesting that Southern…

Look, I don’t believe in fat-shaming!

And if you think you’re experiencing “anti-white-guy bias”, see a doctor.

These tales of the greatest female drivers were at first, for me personally, annoying. I thought it was just some sort of feminist self-affirmation.