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In many places, yes. A couple even use adhesive stamps.

I get a little sad every time Sam is on. Death by rubber dog vomit seems like a very yucky way to go.

Yes, that part is good, but the director and execs were piling on in a way that felt personal and IMHO unprofessional.

It is, and you can absolutely understand her motivation.

I also read the linked article on Genevieve Bujold and that was brutal. The men in charge of Voyager fuckin’ hated her.

Strong for this season, but the gimmick of genre homages on every episode (even the Martians were pretty pulp-serial in their production design) has really backfired, I think. When everything’s special, nothing’s special. As someone who got stuck in watching one summer of Young and the Restless with his mom one summer in the late 80s, the parody itself worked pretty well, but I found myself mercilessly slicing that nostalgia away to lkook at the story itself in a way that I wouldn’t if it had been slipped into a more “normal” season as a breather.

Overall, it was okay, the crew manipulated into dealing with some stuff that they didn’t want to, and knowing that stubborn Pike had to be the one to pull them through. I’m an absolute sap for pulling dad heartstrings, though, so that part came together nicely for me, and as the one time where we even briefly explore the fact that some ST characters end up living double or triple lifetimes due to cosmic events.

And, if we can channel 30 Rock for a moment… lemmy.world/…/853ad834-2855-48d8-bef1-0e8ff9a12bc…

Dallas, I’ve never had an issue. Houston, I got all kinds of zits and pilling and was thinking about getting or making a filament dryer before we moved. Both can be pretty humid, but the difference between 60% and 90% is significant.

Late to the party here, but I did have some uncomfortable flashbacks to stories about Anton Yelchin when I saw how M’Benga was injured.

Overall, strong for this season, but that’s a bit of a low bar.

What’s on display is, thankfully, a set of replicas, but if you want some additional Vesuvius nightmare fuel, look up the boathouses of Herculaneum. The recent Tom Hiddleston “documentary” was an odd thing, but it did do a pretty good job dramatizing and humanizing that day. I reckon it will become a staple of high school and freshman college classes that touch on Ancient Rome.

I was kind of torn on that one, which sort of struck me as the one trying hardest to look and feel like a TOS episode, but it still leaves us with three out of the first four with an identifiable “gimmick,” and the muppet epsiode to come. In fact, it seems like they’ve intentionally leaned into it:

“There’s a cadence between kind of classic ‘TOS’ sci-fi thriller and then the thing that actually makes us ‘Strange New Worlds’…which is our worlds are genres,” Goldsman said. “Those are our strange new worlds. It’s the lens that allows us to tell stories in a way that typically, or at least consistently, hasn’t been done in ‘Star Trek’ before.”

I’m not even entirely sure I hate it, but it’s not adding a fun factor on its own anymore, so if an episode is weak, like the last one, there is nothing particularly refreshing about the fact that they cast Dave Foley and tried to make it funny.

Also, there’s too much Kirk.

When every episode is a “special” genre homage, none of them are special.

I appreciate that there’s an almost palpable march towards TOS camp, and TOS had its share of backlot-leveraging genre scripts, but TOS also had its share of episodes done as straighter sci-fi, sometimes building off really solid and thought-provoking story ideas (leaving Shatner and the production designers to add the camp factor on their own).

The arrow travels half the distance from your bow to the throat of your unworthy enemy. Then half again, and again, and so on, yet always half the distance remains. How does it ever penetrate to spill his lifeblood upon the ground?

While the reality of the scenario is a lesson for another day, buried within the paradox we lay a foundation for comprehending the limit function…

It’s probably related to this possibly apocryphal story:

One shell, however, wasn’t quite empty.

Inside the casing was “a carefully rolled piece of paper” written in Czech, he noted. “This is all we can do for you now,” the message read.

Columbus was indeed a bastard by contemporary standards:

One man caught stealing corn had his nose and ears cut off, was placed in shackles and was then auctioned off as a slave. A woman who dared to suggest that Columbus was of lowly birth was… stripped naked and paraded around the colony on the back of a mule.

It got bad enough that he was sent back in chains (though he was released) and stripped of all his titles (permanently). There’s some thought that the report was a bit of a hit piece by his political enemies, but it seems like he, with his equally shitty brother, opened himself up by being such an asshole.

You don’t have to be an apologist for the Spanish regime or think they were enlightened somehow to understand that he was particularly shitty. As the historian in the article says, “The monarchs wanted someone who did not give them problems. Columbus did not solve problems, he created them.”