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  • Alright, let's do this:

    • ✘ Star Trek S3E1 “Spock’s Brain” — Hilarious, doesn't belong in the list.
    • ✓ Star Trek: The Next Generation S1E4 “Code of Honor” — Offensive, belongs in the list.
    • ✓ Star Trek: The Next Generation S2E22 “Shades of Grey” — Clipshow, belongs in the list.
    • ✓ Star Trek: The Next Generation S2E18 “Up the Long Ladder” — Offensive, belongs in the list.
    • ✘ Star Trek V: The Final Frontier — Shatner did nothing wrong, doesn't belong in the list.
    • ✓ Star Trek: Enterprise S4E22 “These Are the Voyages…” — Never loved Enterprise, but it didn't deserve to have its finale hijacked. Belongs in the list.
    • ✓ Star Trek: Section 31 — Terrible, belongs in the list.
    • ✘ Star Trek: Strange New Worlds S2E9 “Subspace Rhapsody” — Wonderful, doesn't belong in the list.
    • ✘ Star Trek: Discovery S1E1 “The Vulcan Hello” — Love Disco, doesn't belong.
    • ✘ Star Trek: Lower Decks S1E1 “Second Contact” — Lower Decks started slow, but was never bad enough to belong in the list.
    • ✓ Star Trek: Scouts S1E4 “Asteroid Blasters, Number 4” — Never continued past the first episode, but I expect this belongs in the list.
    • ✓ Star Trek: Voyager S2E9 “Tattoo” — Offensive, belongs in the list.
  • I’ve long felt that Fox’s X-Men films capture the feeling of being a long haul comics reader best, because of their sloppy approach to continuity. It’s constantly changing directions, slipping in retcons, reintroducing characters in ways that invalidate their previous appearances. You can tie yourself in knots trying to reconcile X-Men Origins Wolverine with the Deadpool movies the same way I used to try to figure out how Hawkman’s continuity could possibly work. Totally get why a lot of people hate it, but to me that was always part of the fun.

  • I feel like super hero comic fans have a bad rep, but are more easy going about this than one may think. Things kind of drift in and out of continuity all the time. Especially if we’re talking about a big creator. Grant Morrison misremembers Batman’s son’s origin? Okay, that’s the new origin! He wants to bring back the second Robin’s red hair, which was written out twenty years ago? Okay, that’s a thing again.

  • I’m with you. Of all the things they could have done after turning our guys into outlaws, they go with a trip to 1980s Earth? I mean, it’s budget friendly, but a bit of a let down…

  • They've gotta do a superhero episode, right? They get powers, everyone capes up, they drop some jokes bits about Una and shapeshifting...

  • Kind of ironic that the art here is so much better than the joke. Really well done caricatures.

  • There’s a similar fun fact about the ‘60s Addams Family house interior being mostly pink. It worked perfectly well for a show filmed in black and white, but obviously no one would argue that that’s how Gomez and Morticia actually decorated their home.

    But for the purposes of a meme, it’s fine.

  • Oh, the wastes! The magnificent wastes! When I was a lad I knew a man who visited the wastes and brought back such beautiful things! Real salt from the dry riverbeds, pieces of rubber that would burn for hours and give us such marvellous dreams! One day I'll earn enough to take you to the wastes myself, young one. One day.

  • Possibly. Most people's first thought when they heard "Batman" at the time was probably still the '60s series, but Dark Knight Returns had gotten a bit of press already pushing back on that. But really, Burton's sensibilities just work with the character. Maybe it's whoever convinced him to give the job a chance we have to thank.

  • Eeh. Most of the complaints I see in this thread about Trek 2009 would apply as well to TWoK if people were being even handed. It's a pew pew action film. There are no deep philosophical questions being tackled. It's not utopian -- Starfleet is portrayed as a straight forward space navy that works with real scientists only begrudgingly.

    There's kick ass high drama and a decent character study of an ageing Kirk, but the character work on Kirk and Spock in 2009 wasn't all that bad, either.

  • Burton's Batman films are top tier, though. If I get a great director with a solid vision for the character/story, I don't care at all if they were a fan before hand or not.

  • Indeed. Nicolas Meyer was the same, and most fans seem to love his contributions to the franchise. Being a newcomer isn’t a bad thing. Sometimes a fresh perspective can be a great thing.

    Not to say I love Abrams’ work, but in the end he did more harm to Star Wars than to Trek, and by all accounts he’s a life long Star Wars fan.

  • First time I ever saw that put forward was in this fun follow up to Trials and Tribble-Ations:

  • Well, they do…

  • Gotta make sure those torpedoes are are armed with C-4 warheads, though.

  • Mid visor at best; doesn’t even shoot laser beams.

  • Evil

    <insert any female character name>

    : aggressively bisexual

  • TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name @lemmy.world

    The Real Thing