Okay call me late to the party but I've just watched an interview with Rainn Wilson and my brain finally understood that Dwight from #TheOffice and Harry Mudd from #StarTrekDiscovery are played by the same person. 🤯
Could somebody explain to me, briefly, what Book did to Burnham? I missed season 4 and don't know if it’s something I would find inexcusable or if I should be team love conquers all.
In the current season of Star Trek: Discovery, there have been two lines of dialogue that have made me want to throw something at the TV, both of which involved the same word, "solve", used as a noun, and both uttered by Captain Burnham.
"Do we have a solve for this?"
"OK, so what's the solve?"
What sort of fresh hell is this? What's wrong with the perfectly cromulent word "solution"? The writer(s) responsible for this abomination should be sacked.
The 10-episode seasons don't allow much screen time for character development
They focus on very long complex story arcs where if you miss something, you're lost
The writing is just not good enough to combine the two issues above and get away with it so the series has become as much of a train wreck as the last two seasons of Game of Thrones.
Never thought it possible but they’ve managed to find a formula that makes #startrekboring
Welcomt to the 32nd century: instantaneous interstellar travel is possible, people are equipped with personal transporters and programmable matter makes starships infinitely reconfigurable, but split ends are definitely still a problem
Small heads-up for #StarTrek fans who can't watch today's #StarTrekDiscovery episode yet: If you don't like spoilers, maybe make a bit extra sure that you're not seeing any this week.
It's nothing particularly big, and nothing that hasn't been rumored for weeks anyway. As I said, just a heads-up.
"Like, say Battlestar, when I started on that I had no idea where that one was gonna go. Discovery was already very established, but I actually didn't let any of that into my [head], because I went, 'That's not gonna help.' So, I didn’t. Now, I'm feeling the world of it. Now, I'm sensing what the world of Discovery is and how many people love it, and how it fits."
No words drafted today, because I needed to do some website updating, some bloggery and some miscellaneous Goodreads and Storygraph updating of book editions. And that stuff always takes 3 times longer than you think it will!
Blog post in a couple of days for a couple of new backlist rereleases and a tease about my next new release.
In a just world, the #LowerDecks creatives would get as many seasons of the show as they want to write, and be promoted to run all of the #StarTrek IP.
They have demonstrated a consistent understanding of what makes Trek unique and powerful, while breaking new ground. It is the most successful writing since DS9 imo.
This would be much more exciting to me than the endless spreadsheet fan service dreck of Picard/“Legacy”
(much as Jeri Ryan deserves as much work as she wants)
The first two seasons wasted everyone's time and were a disservice to Sonequa Martin Green, who should have just been fucking captain from jump
it worked out in the end because the speculative premise of #StrangeNewWorlds—what if Captain Pike was hot?—is a worthwhile exploration whose scope they expanded to the entire crew, to our shared benefit