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....I may have squealed a little.

I've been wondering about that as well, because even though we've seen Holland's Nate with the shoulder hostler, I don't think any of the trailers have showed him with a gun either in it or in his hand. In fairness, the ethics aside, Nate is shooting BACK in the game, not just indiscriminately blowing people away.

Have they finally cracked the code on video game movies? It doesn't hurt that they're using source material that's already pretty cinematic (the cargo plane sequence is lifted more or less directly from Uncharted 3) and has a strong narrative and characters. But what usually made the games work for me (besides the cool set pieces) was the evolution of Nate, and specifically his relationships with Elena (who they're skipping for this) and Sully. And I'm not sold on the vibe between Holland and Wahlberg quite yet.

I....liked that a lot. It took all season, but they won me over. And left us with a lot of intriguing possibilities.

Be one with the horse.

Given the reception of Rogue One compared to Solo and The Mandalorian as compared to Book of Boba Fett, LucasFilm should probably rethink telling stories that are primarily about major characters from the OT. And also, UO: Boba Fett sucks. Yes, even in the OT.

Watching the show again as an actual adult (instead of a nominal one), I actually revised my opinion on Mark a bit as well. I started watching in the fourth season, when I was in college, and he'd already started to slide down with both the combo of how he was following being beaten and the regrettable Cynthia incident, and by the time the cancer story consumed so much of the narrative for two seasons, I was just done. Having been through the adjustments of struggling with romantic relationships that occur while you're trying to navigate what it means to be the best doctor you can, at a broke county hospital without enough resources...I get him more. And seeing the cancer story compressed in to a few days of binging, I found a lot of moments to like ("Orion in the Sky" made me cry, and "On the Beach"--which I'd actually skipped the first time it aired because I was just so fed up with the story--moved me, especially with Mark being able to admit to Rachel that, no matter how difficult a kid she was, he'd made mistakes with her). One of the big regrets I have is that they never let Mark and Kerry be on the same page for more than a few episode at a time. I actually thought they made a great team, balanced each others' flaws, and even had a similar sense of humor.

After a delay when I got distracted, I finished the second volume of the audio drama, which adapts Season of Mists, A Game of You and most of Fables and Reflections. They omit "The Song of Orpheus," I assume because it would pair thematically better with Brief Lives. It's as good as the first volume, with some wonderful additions, with Kristen Schaal being as perfect as Delirium as you probably imagine as is Emma Corrin's Thessaly. But if there's a star, it's John Lithgow's Joshua Norton, who is just so wonderful that I ended up tearing up by the end.

The bigger issue is the Eugenics War, since Voyager visited a 1996 that didn't appear to be a smoking crater. There were a series of books that found an effective way to handwave it, involving just about every 20th century character that was introduced, from Roberta Lincoln to Rain Robinson to Gillian Taylor.

This might be a retcon, but it's not this show's retcon. We've already seen 2024 in DS9.

I can't believe I had that kind of an emotional reaction to Guinan. Although I had a similar one when Patrick was on The View and asked her to do it, so...

Rok and Gwyn have been the emotional center of the show for me from the start, particularly the former. I can understand taking pause that it's the female (and female-coded, in the case of Janeway) who are the ones plugged in emotionally, but Jankom and Dal are both such clods. And Zero, despite all their wonderful qualities, doesn't seem to understand emotion any better than your average Vulcan. They're just funnier about it.

I've only watched the first episode. I guess I was a little surprised that this is a from-scratch reboot, but given that the kids who grew up watching this when it was new are in their 40s now, it's not like we needed a continuation. Given the casting of Tony-nominated Lilli Cooper as Doc, I can only assume they're planning for her to sing, which I'm in favor of. The puppetry looks GLORIOUS in 4K, which I wasn't expecting.

I'm sorry, no. "More" =/= "better"

Could they have picked a more generic title?

If "better than the theatrical version" is a synonym for "acclaim," I suppose.

I continue to be highly confused by D+'s content policies. Love, Victor was kicked over Hulu because of some frank, although not explicit LGBTQ sexual content, but Boba gets to straight-up slaughter the swoop gang and they don't say boo? I never have understood how droid programming works. Not only did Anakin think it was necessary to program Threepio to be afraid of everything, apparently they're also programmed to commit suicide? And not even in a situation where they're in violation of one of Asimov's laws?

I like that they’re taking cues from “The Batgirl of Burnside” but I hope it looks better in motion and with proper lighting.

Honestly? I liked the episode a lot because whatever else, the show didn't give them a magical solution that everything was better. They fucked up, Janeway made sure they knew they'd fucked up, and they have to live with that knowledge. Rok-Tahk, who always tugs at my heartstrings, trying so hard to apologize broke me a little. I don't have as much of a problem with Nandi being in the Delta Quadrant, because it's clear the Protostar jumped a long way when they engaged their drive, and by most official maps, the Klingon Empire extends from the Alpha Quadrant al the way across the Beta almost to the border, and Romulan space goes all the way to it. I can buy a familiar species being out that far. I have more of a problem with a female DaiMon, because while I can absolutely believe that Grand Nagus Rom would have allowed women to serve, according to the timeline, he'd been in office less than 10 years at this point, and Dal's supposed to be in his teens. I can't make that math work in my head.

Judging by some of the things Jankom has said, like how he remembers being on a sleeper ship, I wonder if he's actually a lot older than he appears, like part of an early Tellarite colonization mission. Transporters were new tech during Enterprise, and I don't think every species had them.

This gets me every single time. Nicole Kidman doesn’t have the best voice, but she sells the hell out of it. And goddamn, does Baz Luhrman know how to film her.

One of the things I most respected about Roger Ebert was how he would rate movies on a sliding scale. He'd always give a good review to a dumb action movie that he enjoyed watching that didn't insult his intelligence, while being utterly vicious towards prestige movies that screwed it up.

Dolly should have acted more. She shouldn't be good at it, and yet she is.

The best thing about Rhinestone is the How Did This Get Made about it, where, while acknowledging the movie is terrible, they fall all over themselves saying that Dolly Parton was still absolutely wonderful.

That looks completely fake to me.