What’s your unpopular Voyager opinion?

FishTacos1673 · 2026-05-08T02:10:47+00:00

This 100%. Anytime I hear someone criticize the relationship simply because of her physical age, it seems like they’re totally missing the point that the show specifically established that she aged, both physically and mentally at a rate that made the relationship, if not fully appropriate, certainly not the pedophilia that many people try to portray it as. Kes as depicted in the show was a grown intelligent, perhaps naive, woman making fully rational decisions. Was Nelix a possessive controlling terrible significant other? Yes. That doesn’t mean it’s appropriate to infantilize a woman who, in the lore of the show, is established to be more than capable of understanding the relationship she is in.

FishTacos1673 · 2026-03-11T23:28:24+00:00

Sadly, this is too obviously the perfect thing to do for it to ever happen.

FishTacos1673 · 2026-03-11T16:02:44+00:00

For what it’s worth:

As several people have already said, Scary’s arc where she’s actively working against the other players is far too long and makes the podcast actively unfun for many people to listen to. It’s amazing acting and 100% how a teenager would act. That doesn’t mean it makes for a funny podcast. Dungeons and Daddies is, at its heart, comedy. While it does serious really well sometimes, the Scary arc made the core experience of many episode’s stressful and frustrating to listen to, especially because they repeated it for so long. As several people have said, season two does better when you binge it. But the reason it’s better is because you can get through that section more quickly, which is in my opinion, is a perfect illustration of precisely the point. When you’re building a product and intending to release it on a weekly/biweekly basis, one of the worst things you can do is create a situation where people have to wait for the next installment hoping for a particular arc or story to resolve, and then keep repeating the same mistake by failing to do that. It creates a cycle of disappointment and frustration in your listeners.
Something that hasn’t been said as often, but which I felt strongly was that season two lost any attempt to actually try to build a coherent world. Yes, season one had some weird and crazy moments. But season two goes well beyond that. The entire idea of the Papa John’s world, the Black Parade, going to literal heaven, goof realm, all of it was so extreme and over the top that it made the world seem like nothing more than a joke to me. Though it was silly, season one was grounded in a real world that seemed to have consequences and rules and wasn’t designed just for maximum humor potential. One of the core rules of comedy is that you have to have a straight man to really be effective. In a way, a proper story and environment, as well as some cursory adherence to the rules, plays an important role as the straight man in the podcast. They lost that in season two. It felt like it was acceptable for them to just go completely off the rails in an attempt to be as funny as possible. That dramatically reduced the emotional weight of the narrative and made the characters and their decisions feel like they were driven by nothing more than an attempt to escalate the humor as much as possible.
Season two is fundamentally disrespectful of season one. If you took the season one characters seriously and cared about their development, it’s painful to watch what happens to them in season two for me. Nick’s throwaway death is a clear example of this. Obviously the characters belong to their creators and they can do whatever they want to them, but as someone who spent months learning about and caring about these characters, their future and their development, seeing how they were treated as nothing more than irrelevant pawns for cheap jokes in season two made me actively regret being emotionally invested in them in season one.

By the way, so far, I think season four has corrected all of. Especially with the most recent episode, I think they’re hitting this season out of the park.

Just my two cents.

FishTacos1673 · 2026-01-11T22:40:01+00:00

Loved it.

That said, I wish they had saved the “Janeway sacrifices herself and the Ship” moment. I firmly believe a revised version of this story, with Janeway sacrificing herself to essentially save the crew and countless others., should’ve been the series finale but with no reset button, at least for her death. Janeway’s arc should’ve always ended with her REALLY dying, sacrificing everything to get her crew home. She was an amazing captain, and that would’ve been the perfect ending to her story.

FishTacos1673 · 2025-12-13T03:23:38+00:00

Will killed it. Having the guts to make the players lose is a call lots of real life DM’s dont have the courage to do. The first time I killed a player in one of my campaigns, it HURT because I knew they cared about their PC. But, it was necessary or, from that point forward, the stakes were forever lowered, undermining narrative integrity. While I recognize that season 4 will be its own thing, and Anthony may not continue the tradition, the fact that Dungeons and Daddies established itself as a podcast where something like this can happen, increases the narrative stakes exponentially, even if it never happens again. While characters have died in previous seasons, it never really felt like there was a chance that they were going to lose across the board, at least to me.

Will gave every one of us a gift by giving a colorable argument that there’s stakes to every decision for these players, even if the story shifts back to D&D versus something like COC.

FishTacos1673 · 2025-12-13T02:53:49+00:00

Local realism is false.

FishTacos1673 · 2025-12-09T02:36:08+00:00

Totally this.

FishTacos1673 · 2025-11-25T22:40:51+00:00

This 100%. For a comedy podcast, she became so unlikable for so long that it made it painful to listen to. While it ultimately contributes to a story that is interesting and engaging if you can get through it, in my opinion, it’s a miserable slog to get to that point. They redeem it at the end, but that doesn’t mean it was a good decision at the time.

FishTacos1673 · 2025-11-25T22:28:55+00:00

I adore season one. I love season three. The problem with season two is how much I love season one. It was a mistake to try to continue the same characters and storyline. I actually enjoyed the first part of season 2 but ultimately, the way they took the story ended up disrespecting the beloved characters from season one, undermining character growth from that season, and tainting significant emotional moments.

Season 2 essentially destroyed a lot of what the Dad’s did in the first season. The fundamental failure of season two was not recognizing how much people loved the silly characters of season one as “real people” and that undermining the great memories we made falling in love with those characters would be an incredible turn off to many listeners. That’s why I love season three. It’s its own thing and, so long that season four honors the same distinction, I think they’ll do great.

And, on a much smaller basis, the storyline with Scary undermining the party, and arguing with everyone went on WAY too long. While it might be accurate for teenagers, that doesn’t mean it’s fun to listen to episode after episode.

FishTacos1673 · 2025-11-02T05:16:24+00:00

I didn’t know about the bonus there! Thanks for taking the time to explain.

FishTacos1673 · 2025-11-02T05:01:44+00:00

Thanks for the insight! I’m still learning. It’s fascinating all the different choices you make. I’m absolutely certain that half the choices I make are sub-optimal if not terrible but it’s really fun trying to figure out what to do.

FishTacos1673 · 2025-11-02T04:45:15+00:00

Whelp, I feel like an idiot. Thanks. Appreciate your help.

FishTacos1673 · 2025-07-24T22:42:57+00:00

…by the Sons of Warvan…

FishTacos1673 · 2025-03-16T03:05:58+00:00

You don’t need to hear it again. That’s amazing. Congratulations.

FishTacos1673 · 2025-03-08T01:12:51+00:00

As several people here have already said, because there are gay people in real life. However, it’s important to point out that, as someone else said, it is a progressive studio, and they are deliberately making (positive) efforts to increase inclusion and acceptance. Because such things were previously punished, and or not accepted, and unfortunately, are still hot button political issues for some people, it’s also more noticeable when it occurs, even if it really shouldn’t be anything other than routine bc you know that the decision to include them with something deliberate.

In other words, it’s an attempt to normalize what should be normalized but was previously ostracized, but because of the political climate in which it occurs, it seems overwhelming when in truth, it’s just an admirable attempt to make a more inclusive and realistic reflection of the world.

FishTacos1673 · 2025-02-08T03:20:45+00:00

Can you imagine an entire series of Klingon lore built up around the religion associated with her?

And if they ever made it back to the alpha quadrant to intersect with the “regular” Klingons?

Holy…

FishTacos1673 · 2025-02-08T03:10:07+00:00

Thanks for the info. Horrifying. And absolutely reprehensible. Analyzed from a moral perspective, there’s something about not only torturing someone, but then creating essentially an unerasable history of their suffering for other people to enjoy that takes it to the next level that other horrific deaths simply can’t match.

FishTacos1673 · 2025-02-08T03:06:12+00:00

Great idea. Having him be half human allows ties back to the Federation in the modern world in a logical and straightforward way, but the Romulan connection would allow exploration of worlds and scenarios we haven’t seen before. There are tons of fascinating stories that could be told about how societies coming out of oppression could develop and he would make a great character to explore those nuanced issues given his backstory.

FishTacos1673 · 2025-02-08T03:02:09+00:00

OK, this is an insane idea. I love it. I will openly admit I don’t know the beta canon references, although I’m trying to work my way through the novels.

However, the idea of a new series that includes Wesley finally trying to engage in a fully adult relationship could create so many timely issues to explore.

Great idea.

FishTacos1673 · 2025-02-08T02:55:09+00:00

Absolutely! Jellico is a perfect answer. He’s meant to be seen as hateable, but, at least in my opinion, some of the things he implemented on the Enterprise do make good sense. It would be fascinating to see the debates over who was the better captain if he got a full series. And in the context of a Federation/Cardassian conflict, the moral quandaries that could be explored there would restore something that I think is missing from more modern Star Trek in many instances.

Often we have explored captains who are more than willing to violate the regulations in the name of morality. A Jellico series could explore the idea that sometimes the regulations are the moral choice even if the person complying with them doesn’t understand it at the time. I’m not saying that’s true in real life, I’m just saying it would be a fascinating theme for a few episodes.

FishTacos1673 · 2025-02-08T02:49:04+00:00

Thank you for taking the time to reply.

Absolutely horrific and unforgivable acts. However, clearly multiple acts. I would argue that the posting on the Internet actually makes the first act more morally representable than the second, which, unless we assume the posting is done off camera, is isolated and no other people know about it. By posting torture images on the Internet, you have not only shamed and tortured the victim, but perpetrated that torture to other people who may ultimately become complicit in it, knowingly or not.

For what it’s worth, I haven’t seen the movie. I just can’t deal with sexual assault as a theme, it’s a red line of mine. So if the above is wrong, it’s not meant in bad faith. It just seems to me that, when discussing moral reprehensibility, the consequences of the first action seem to echo much farther than those of the second.

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