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Sir Patrick gave interview after interview emphasizing that viewers should not expect to see the same Picard after twenty years. I suppose I let my imagination get the better of me. I hoped for a retired Picard who is perhaps on some distant world on an archaeological dig, uncovering an artifact of universal yet deeply personal significance, and the journey it takes him on from there. I was picturing a show with the resonance of Inner Light or Tapestry, in which he's confronted by the choices of his life and the short time he has remaining, with themes like the insignificance of one man against the backdrop of the universe vs. the good that one man can do. Instead, we got ... Raffi. And Harry Treadaway. And a shameless (but not sham-less) redux of Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home. Retconning. Data dying AGAIN. Preposterous film school psychodrama with little Picard as Oliver Twist. Yet another iteration of "I am your father ..." Beverly with a bad haircut. And in-your-face-we're-gonna-do-this-just-because-we-can fuckery like Shadows of the Night and Kirk's body mothballed in some sad Starfleet facility. I no longer entertain any illusions that Star Trek will ever be done right again, on Strange New Worlds or anywhere else. Picard disabused me of that notion but good. The only positive thing I can say about Picard is that as bad as it is, it still isn't as awful as Discovery.

Throughout this episode I was mentally replacing Michonne with Daryl (well, not the sex scene) and wondering how he would have handled Rick being institutionalized, which is what I think they were getting at by Michonne saying "when they open the door to the prison you don't go back, you leave." Danai's been wasting her talents on The Walking Dead. I don't know what it says about me that the only emotional response I had was to feel bad for the Rumba in that last shot.

Bill, please see my post above.

So I was sitting in the movie theater just as Flashdance was starting (yes, this was in The Past), and Irene Cara's voice comes up slow and soulful as she starts singing the theme song, First, when there's nothing but a slow glowing dream ... Meanwhile a couple rows behind, three teenage boys are squeezing past people, trying to get to empty seats and they're laughing and talking a little loudly as teenage boys do. A woman in the row in front of me whirls round and loudly hisses "SHHHHHHHHH!" One of the boys stops, looks at her for a moment, and says in an offhand way, "Oh shut up, you've heard it a hundred times on the radio." I laughed so hard. To this day I can still hear his voice because what he said was so plainly and undeniably true. That song was played to death on the airwaves that summer. The only reason I know is because I hated their first T-Mobile commercial so much I had to look it up and see who those fucking idiots were.

That's Donald Faison and Zach Braff from Scrubs. Momoa's participation took me aback. The other two have already done a singing T-Mobile ad, so no shock there. Probably the highest visibility roles they've had in years. But Momoa? Game of Thrones, Aquaman, Dune ... I don't get it.

Nothing on Hulu is worth that. Plus the earworm potential is off the charts.

lol, i know.

People are crying every episode now, so much that it's fast becoming a staple of the game. I can't stand Bhanu. I have been calling for his ouster since episode 1. These assholes, wondering aloud where the bad karma is coming from. Oh, I don't know ... maybe from Kenzie and Tiffany mean-girling Jess and trying to make her look like a fool ... maybe from Bhanu screaming hatefully in Jess' face ... Bhanu claiming "a miracle" when another human being is facing the fear of partial paralysis and imminent spinal surgery is beyond unseemly. It's disgraceful and sick. Probst trying to rationalize it as "part of Survivor" felt forced and unconvincing. Has there ever been a display of phoniness on this show to rival Kenzie's "I'm so glad I got to know you" moment with Bhanu?

Been thinking about this series lately. I can't fathom how given a golden opportunity to write the final chapter of an iconic figure like Jean Luc Picard, the writers turned this series into a steaming pile of shit. I can't understand how or why Patrick Stewart went along with it after all his advance hype about how this Picard would be so very different. In the end, the only difference was the quality, which was so far below TNG that it felt like a Sci-Fi Channel production. I haven't watched it since the series ended. There are no great "moments" that stand out in my memory. Instead there's Alison Pill belting out "Shadows of the Night" in one of the biggest WTF scenes of the series (seconded only by the young Jean Luc as Oliver Twist episode). There's the writers' apparent ignorance or blatant disrespect for canon (fake Guinan's bar being called "Ten Forward" 200 years before there was a Ten Forward). Raffi dulling down every scene she was in. The casual and unconvincing disposal of main characters (first Dahj, then Soji, El-Nor, Rios, Agnes Gerardi), the lazy lazy LAZY Picard-has-an-unknown-son plotline. The mind-numbingly-bad storyline of Season Two. Another asshole Soong. The squandering of Q's return. And so on. Even The recruitment of the TNG cast for Season 3 didn't couldn't save Picard. All it managed to accomplish IMO was to be a painful reminder of what good Star Trek used to look like. The ONLY good thing about Picard was the continuing story of Seven Of Nine. I had looked forward to this show for so long, never content with the send-off Picard received in Nemesis. I religiously followed all the articles and announcements in the run-up and during filming. Who could have imagined it would turn into such a shitshow? I wish Picard had never happened.

Maybe they were both mentally depleted after psychically freezing the popcorn and soda in mid-air for an untold period of time. (but seriously, what kind of dolts dump soda and popcorn because of a jump scare?)

I must confess: I laugh every time the Ingrezza guy fumbles and drops the ceramic bowl in the antique shop.

It has ruined the produce section for me.

Why is it our fate to be blessed with so many annoying and terrible prescription medicine commercials? My newest hate-spot: Otezla and "Introducing Ned's plaque psoriasis!" Is it any wonder Ned the loser's blind date ends at the theater with a brotherly hug? And what's the deal with the weirdly flirtatious old woman who looks like an emoji of an old woman? Then time stands still in the theater (over the intercom: Would Mr. Klaatu please report to the concession stand?). Who puts on lipstick in a dark movie theater? I must see this commercial no less than 10 times a day. Craziest of all, the commercial has 3.8 thousand views on youtube. Nearly 4000 people watched it voluntarily!

Gratitude.

I was thinking, if you audition and just tell the producers, "I want to be on the show because I believe I can outwit, outlast and outplay everybody else," you're probably screwed.

I had to turn on subtitles to understand Thorne. As for "Richonne," I'd need more than subtitles to understand that.

He was maybe one drink away from beating a woman.

Tiffany was so concerned about people seeing her as an angry black woman. She should have been worried about people seeing her for what she really is: a mean girl. Just like Kenzie. They can rationalize it all as innocent gameplay, but the cruelty was the point of that fake-idol exercise. The shot-in-the-dark is a 1-in-6 chance, hardly worth worrying about. Can't stand Tevin, can't stand Bhanu, don't like Charlie ... Great season. 🙄 Ben and his crying over the fire. If only he had a hot dog.

I despise the Tina Fey booking.com commercials -- you know, the body doubles? Was Glenn Close's booking agency having a special that week? The part that really irks me though is when the bigfoot-like character does that knock-off Chewbacca impression. And this spot is on ALL the time.

Why then would Gunn resurrect them? Isn't his whole deal about rebooting the DC universe? Why would he pull these useless characters out of the 1980s? While he's at it, why not bring back Wendy, Marvin and Wonder Dog from The Super Friends?

Feeling like a woman.

The problem as I see it is that he's haranguing people who already agree with him. It's the viewers (and hosts) of another network he needs to be fencing with and trying to convert.

I haven't visited this thread since August. After catching up, looking at all the linked articles, I saw not one thing that stirs my interest. It's like these people at DC ruined everything -- they trashed The Flash, they didn't do right by Henry Cavill, they misled Gal Gadot and the fans -- and most egregious of all they foisted Ezra Miller on the movie-going public despite all his wrongdoing. And now they're trying to razzle-dazzle everybody into trusting them again. I hope all of these projects bomb. I do have one question, though: Otis and Eve Teschmacher are purely movie creations, are they not? Or did they appear anywhere in the comics canon prior to the 1980s Superman movie? The Luthor-Miss Tessmacher-Otis trio really dumbed down the movie. Valerine Perrine was nice to look at but that's all. I guess Ned Beatty was eager to land a role that afforded him more dignity than Deliverance, but I'm not sure playing a fucking idiot who goes around saying "Yessir, Mr. Loo-thor" was the best way to do that.

You just ruined Tawny Kitaen.

It wouldn't surprise me if one of them turns out to be a Eugene episode.