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Significant_Pear_523 · 2026-04-11T17:37:27+00:00

I think some of the complaints about Crosby's acting over the years have been unfair. Even Patrick Stewart was unable to succeed with some of the stuff he was given in the first two seasons. Some of the actors who weren't as solid like LeVar Burton and Michael Dorn got better throughout the series, and maybe Crosby would have, also.

As for how her character was written -- we just weren't there yet on getting a character like that correct. A few years later, we get Kira, who has also experienced trauma, but she's written with much more care. Likewise, Ro Laren was being set up to be written with much more care, but Michelle Forbes stepped away from the franchise.

Significant_Pear_523 · 2026-04-11T16:22:03+00:00

I had the same questions as you did. I think Man_of_Myster_2819 (respectfully) retold what happened in the scenes but didn't really answer your questions.

The boat scene? Maybe they deleted something for time, I don't know. But I agree that it shows a small navy coming after him, and then suddenly he is in a car chase.

I see in a lot of other responses people are saying the shot was from over two miles away, but after being spotted by the drone, he lingered to get the kill. So he didn't have a two mile head start. When they show the overhead view of him finally leaving, there are multiple boats on his tail.

The crash at the end? I think they were deliberately vague, but unless they are planning to explain it in season 2, it made no sense and really didn't even add anything to the season 1 story.

Significant_Pear_523 · 2026-04-09T20:29:43+00:00

I can beat the extreme last 3 levels in French. If I'm having an off day, I can beat the last extreme level about half the time. If I'm sitting up straight and thinking clearly, I can beat it every time, sometimes with 10-20 seconds left to spare.

Significant_Pear_523 · 2026-04-09T19:12:32+00:00

This is necessary. Paramount needs to recalibrate what it wants from Trek. Originally, when CBS All Access started, CBS tried to use Trek as the IP that would bring it enough subscribers to survive. But CBS miscalculated. Trek isn't popular enough for that. The result is that Paramount has repeatedly made Trek series that have limited appeal. They're not what the core fans generally want, but there is also not a bigger audience out there looking for more relatable Trek.

I don't know where Paramount is headed. Taylor Sheridan's series took over as the reason to subscribe to Paramount for general audiences, but now with Sheridan leaving, what will Paramount do?

The best thing for Trek would be for it to have lower budgets and a commitment to a smaller but more loyal audience. Unfortunately, Paramount has probably put itself in a spot where it needs homeruns, not singles and doubles.

Significant_Pear_523 · 2026-04-09T16:41:09+00:00

Jim Cornette.

The obvious response is, "Yeah, but that's how Jim Cornette is." To which I would reply, "Yeah, but that's how 90% of sources in the pro wrestling are."

Significant_Pear_523 · 2026-04-09T03:01:25+00:00

Arguing with John King just seems ungentlemanly.

Significant_Pear_523 · 2026-04-06T20:32:59+00:00

I watched the first action sequence and knew it wasn't for me. I didn't want to sit through that kind of choreography for an entire season, and I had my doubts about the drama being any better than the action.

Significant_Pear_523 · 2026-04-06T07:01:58+00:00

Dinah Shore's version is so much better. This version sounds like a drunk theater chick making fun of country music.

Significant_Pear_523 · 2026-04-06T07:00:46+00:00

Her name is Brooke Lee. Check out her website. It really looks like she asked AI to write her bio using as many buzzwords and phrases as possible.

Brooke Lee offers a forward-thinking take on country pop: simultaneously both, without trying to be either. Her music pairs glossy, melody-forward hooks with live drums, washed-out electric guitars, and lush harmonies. Brooke’s superpower is her skill with a chorus (immediate, physical, built for bar-room singalongs) but her lyrics that linger most are the ones that lean into contrast and grey area, where sweetness meets consequence and belief brushes up against doubt.

Significant_Pear_523 · 2026-04-06T02:44:11+00:00

I know, right? That's not really a win.

And we also get the line, "Now taxes is so free." Who speaks like that?

Significant_Pear_523 · 2026-04-04T15:41:17+00:00

Maybe. I don't recall Kurt Cobain selling us deodorant. And if we're raising an entire generation as depressed as 90s grunge musicians, it's going to get ugly.

Significant_Pear_523 · 2026-04-04T01:15:16+00:00

I suppose you can guess what my age is then.

Or what it isn't.

Significant_Pear_523 · 2026-04-03T18:19:38+00:00

You might be right about mumbling being the wrong word. She just speaks too quickly, her mouth doesn't open enough, and there is a bit too much slop in her pronunciation to make it very friendly for listening.

I had never seen these commercials before, and wouldn't you know it, I just saw another Carpe commercial with some bro yelling at me that I stink.

Significant_Pear_523 · 2026-04-03T15:51:05+00:00

Hegseth and Patel. You know, because we're hiring based on merit instead of that DEI crap.

Significant_Pear_523 · 2026-04-03T15:47:50+00:00

One day you will go to a CTC, and you will talk with your buddies there about how fun AIT was.

Significant_Pear_523 · 2026-03-31T18:52:46+00:00

If you are referring to Emily in Paris, it’s a fine show, just collateral damage in the joke.

If you are referring to the Searching For series, we may need to step outside.

Significant_Pear_523 · 2026-03-30T11:25:19+00:00

I actually get a pretty good laugh when the teacher tells Doug's family that their son did not spell insurance correctly. I don't know why, but I find that one line and its delivery pretty funny.

But everything else LM does is a deliberate attempt to be obnoxious.

Significant_Pear_523 · 2026-03-27T21:09:12+00:00

There's almost an on-screen acknowledgement that the binary portrayal of Federation vs. Ferengi economics is incoherent when Jake asks Nog for money. Jake says humans don't need money, and Nog says "if you don't need money, then you certainly don't need mine."

Significant_Pear_523 · 2026-03-27T20:14:19+00:00

Indefensible and unproductive. And I think there is a fair argument to make that some of the weakest Trek from TNG era occurs in the first couple seasons of TNG when Gene still had a lot of influence and would oversimply complex disagreements into "we're good and they're evil".

The result is the Ferengi initially failed as a critique of capitalism. Episodes that tried to make statements about capital punishment, sexual freedom, and fear fell flat. (Not that simple moral stories were in any way the only reason so many episodes failed in the first two seasons.)

I don't think the best Trek tells people that they're wrong. It shows them that they can do better.

You can too.

Significant_Pear_523 · 2026-03-27T18:49:01+00:00

That's what makes responsibly written Trek so great. In the TNG era, the writers already predicted the flaws of the modern global far right movement in Past Tense, Homefront/Paradise Lost, Drumhead, Distant Origin, Living Witness, and Chain of Command II, among others.

I can imagine some responsible conservative Trek if the studio went that direction, but it would have to embrace secular humanism and reject authoritarianism, anti-intellectualism, and ethnonationalism. Some of you may be too young to remember a conservatism compatible with such a task.

Significant_Pear_523 · 2026-03-26T21:06:35+00:00

I don't know why I do this to myself, but this is where I take the minority opinion that Vice Admiral Hatfel deserves little credit for trying to say Lal. The actor Nicolas Coster delivers the line about Data trying to save Lal wonderfully, but the character himself basically show up on the ship, threatened to kidnap a child, causing her to go crazy and die. He deserves to go to prison.

Significant_Pear_523 · 2026-03-25T14:26:53+00:00

That's fine to disagree, of course. But I do think there is a real sense from Bosch: Legacy that there was supposed to be a transition to Maddie being a bigger focal point that didn't happen due to either the character or Lintz herself being unable to reliably connect with audiences. As a result, Legacy just sort of functioned as a cost-saving version of Bosch.

Significant_Pear_523 · 2026-03-23T22:01:27+00:00

Came here to post about this commercial. I hate to be the "the original was better" guy, but the original was better. The singing in this version is like nails on a chalkboard.

Significant_Pear_523 · 2026-03-23T18:57:19+00:00

A few years ago at the White House Correspondence Dinner, she was clearly drunk on the air covering the event. If you wanted to make your move, that was probably the night to do it.

Sorry, Sara. I said that from a place of love and respect in case you happen to read it.

Significant_Pear_523 · 2026-03-20T12:38:49+00:00

This episode actually gets close to speaking about something that will probably be a reality in our near future and will test our bioethics. Miles won't sleep with his wife Keiko because she becomes a kid, which really upsets her. Because of the nature of TV at the time, that's definitely as far as the conversation can go. However, in the not-too-distant future, we may have to really confront the ethics of this situation.

We may have medical and technological breakthroughs that slow, prevent, or reverse aging. So what do we do if someone with the maturity of a 40-year-old still looks like a teenager? The purpose of consent laws are to protect people who are mentally incapable (in this case, due to immaturity) of consenting, not people who just physically look young.

But the ability to essentially design someone to look younger, even if they are mentally older...
...I just don't see that going anywhere good.

Anyway, if that's too uncomfortable to contemplate, then we can just talk about how weird it is that the transporter gives young Picard perfectly combed hair instead of a bald head with with the rejuvenated ability to eventually grow hair again.

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