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MCU Asgardians have always bugged me. In the first two movies they were so afraid of doing anything too out there that they were like, "No, we're not mythological, just lifeforms with technology indistinguishable from magic. Definitely not immortal, either, we just live for a few thousand...

I didn't hate it, but it left me cold. I'm not a fan of Taika's goof-ass Thor world in general, but Ragnarok made me laugh enough to keep me from being completely turned off by the story, and this simply did not. When I'm not enjoying a movie very much, I tend to start picking apart the plot...

It's funny, by rights I should have had the hardest time buying Paul Wesley as Kirk, since I actually watched like 5 seasons of Vampire Diaries (Let's just call it 5, I'm too embarrassed to look it up and see what season I actually stopped at). I should've been like, "What the hell you doing on...

Always a good idea, whatever the occasion.

I had that thought too, but it’s an easy circle to square. Before the events of this episode, Pike probably planned to command Enterprise right up until the accident. Now that he’s resolved to let it happen, and that he knows he has a worthy successor in Kirk, he’ll probably take the promotion...

It's funny...on paper, I should have disliked this episode.

Considering the episode title of the finale (I’m avoiding any details beyond that), I wouldn’t be too shocked if the Metrons put in an appearance. (Or, I’m way offbase and it’s simple a Shakespeare reference)

I'm as big a booster of shared universes and continuity porn as can be, but this makes perfect sense to me. If I was selling this show, I'd rather be able to say it's its own thing than that it ties into an interconnected universe of shows that mostly don't exist anymore.

Incredibly minor spoiler, but what the heck:

Lotta good stuff in this episode, though I have to admit the pedant in me was being nitpicky throughout.

If I have one complaint about the episode, it's that the crew didn't come to their senses while still in costume, left to wonder what the hell was going on. It's maybe the first time I really wanted another La'an scene.

Eh, it's no more recontextualized now than it had been by ROTS. Because you're right, the original interpretation was definitely "I haven't seen you since I was your student." Some people think the Mustafar scene sidesteps an incongruity, that Vader still considered himself a "learner" in that...

"That sure was the finale to an Obi-Wan Kenobi show," he said, accurately.

Can't say I'm especially excited to see where this goes, but I do respect the nerve.

If it is, they really ought to announce it. As of now, knowing that a Reva spinoff is planned makes me think I know exactly what her story is, and really diminishes any excitement I had for seeing it play out. (I could end up being dead wrong in my assumption, of course, but between now and the...

I've never checked out any pre-Republic SW stories with the old Sith, but I do love the Rule of Two as a concept. Or really, any variation of the "Klingon promotion" trope, which I didn't even realize had a name until I just looked it up.

As classic as that episode is for the character moments and the music and all that...it is batcrap insane that the planet of super-intelligent logic lovers have arranged marriages that can only be broken via fights to the death. But viewed through that lens, I can still think of T'Pring as...

There are things you just have to expect from a prequel, especially a prequel to something made so long ago. I don't blame a modern-day female character for not being written like she's going to naturally turn into a dowager from a 1960s show. Nor do I find fault with Uhura being so incredibly...

Man, I loved this new one. Just wall-to-wall Vulcan 'dad jokes'. Loved the diplomacy stuff, loved Enterprise bingo, loved the DS9 and Enterprise references, loved Pike's "Kirk Season 2" uniform. Even La'an, who's been one of my less favorite characters, did it for me here. Thanks in no small...