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Speaking of sounding moodier, Chuck sounds real done with it.

Chuck's been usually good at not overdoing it with clips and saving them just for the right moment, so the Simpsons clip was pretty jarring-it was just explaining the joke. It's not even at all an obscure reference.

Damn it Chuck, you've clearly stole your idea for Orion Slave Girls as allegory for sex work from me, while I had it occur to me years ago and never told anybody ever! Seriously though, that was exactly what I would have done and was suprised Chuck sees it the same way. That said, the way Chuck pres...

One small thing that always annoyed me. I know it's hard to give a communications officer something to do in an action movie, but that scene with Uhura and Klingons was such a rare, tailor-made opportunity for her to use her unique skill to save the day and have natural impact on the plot. Instead, ...

Chuck makes a good point about how avoiding your death in this case wouldn't automatically save you. Has there been a story like that? A character manages to prevent their fate, but now they have to deal with what caused it without a heads up? Anyway, the guy's daughter is definitely the one who sen...

The ending makes sense from the thematic perspective (which is as much of a concern with works of fiction as anything else), they are rejecting the shlock torture porn horror for something new. But yeah, hard to see it as any kind of moral choice, which I believe Whedon argued it was. I don't think ...

I definitely agree Rodenberry doesn't deserve the worship he's getting in some circles.

His defense of Superman’s potrayal in JLU. I don’t think Superman is or should be perfect, but the guy in JLU is just a stupid, unstable asshole, who constantly let’s himself be easily manipulated. The Cadmus story arc is great, but it absolutely throws his character under the bus to work. I don’t t...

Look, here's my thing with the episode: At the end, Janeway says they "all bear responsibility for Kovin's death" and well, do they? Yes, Doctor certainly was overzealous and Chakotay assumed he proved his guilt just by running away-but neither of them were heading the investigation, Tuvok was and h...

Man, this episode. I suppose it's not exactly OCC for Worf to ignore Alexander like that-I even get why he would do it, not wanting to force his ideals on him-but it is worse than anything I recall him doing on TNG. Yes, I know he isn't really ashamed of him, but he's still an idiot for thinking tal...

I'd say better examples of Marty Stus would be Eragon or Richard Rahl. Neo is overpowered but he is still somewhat flawed, especially in the first movie but even int he sequels he makes mistakes or is outmatched or outthought at times. Though I'd say that defining a Mary / Marty Sue as "too perfect...