User contributed ratings are a popularity contest, not a democracy, that’s why. And those get wildly inflated by fans who seem to rate their own brand loyalty rather than what they actually watched 🤷

Your experience and enjoyment of a show or episode shouldn’t depend on (or be lessened by) a biased consensus stat on a website somewhere.

Odo was a lover, not a fighter. Just check out those bedroom eyes!

Crime 101 author Don Wislow hit back at Weir on X, writing, “Congrats on the success of Project Hail Mary and The Martian. I’m a real fan. But when you have your moment don’t use it to crap on other writers’ work. For the record, Alex Kurtzman is a visionary writer, creator, producer and you owe him an apology… writer to writer.”

Ugh. I didn’t watch The Martian because of Matt Damon and his face, but I’m going to continue not watching it because of Weir.

Is it okay, in the context and company of a Trek community, and on the sole basis of that quote, to say that he sounds like a bit of a petty entitled prick?

I’ve never read or watched any of his stuff that I know of, but come on. Somebody rejected a pitch you did, so now you’re going to gloat over the franchise’s misfortune the second you have a mic stuffed in your face?

The second season has finished shooting, yes. And IIRC the cancellation announcement says the show will end after s2. But if Paramount want to really dig their heels in on hurting its audience, they could still stop post-production and write off the season like Warner did with that Batwoman show…

It’s not that you’re “all” wrong, it’s that you insist nobody else is right to like something you decided you didn’t without watching it.

There were people who followed the show and liked it. The number of signers to the petition vastly outnumber the downvotes to my posts sharing it here. You can deal with that gracefully, or continue as you started 🤷

You could be right. But then, why can’t we have both?

Same. But it’s tucked away at the end.

I saw the news from Brian Tatosky’s mastodon account, and my immediate reaction was “time for another letter writing campaign?”.

Well, I’ll be damned. The hate campaigners seem to have won, despite solid signs that the show was actually doing quite well with the target group — internationally, if less so in the US?

This is very sad news, the show seemed to go from strength to strength in its first season.

Strong incel keyboard warrior energy in that “review”.

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Yes, the outrage factory has its reach, no doubt. I can’t find the post right now, but I believe @[email protected] had a rundown of viewing figures that indicated a rather different result than people downvoting it online.

Edit: found the comment thread

Hey, Sam Neill was in most of the first episode! 😆 Yeah, that was a weird stunt casting choice.

Rewatching Invasion now, it’s really not that good. It’s as if somebody said during brainstorming, “Hey, slow burn is pretty big right now, how about we make this NO BURN?”

Something like half of the screentime is dedicated to a family that just seem to wander aimlessly around North America. Then smash cut to a few minutes of something actually relevant to the story.

Uh, can I plead the fifth amendment on the “where” even if I’m not a US citizen? 😆

I’ll say it’s DVD quality, though. As in, as good as a '60s through '80s TV episodes will look on DVD… Some of the First and Second Doctor serials are pretty rough!

No, sure. I have very fond memories of X-files too, from the original airing.

But my latest attempt at a rewatch took most of a bottle of rum to sit through a handful of episodes. My liver just isn’t up for X-files anymore.

Right? I said it elsewhere, but given the show’s global traction it would make so much sense to produce another Short Treks season to tide us over into season 2.

watching classic Doctor Who from the beginning

Oh, do it! It’s kind of a slog by modern standards, but once you get into the rhythm of it, you understand why it became such a beloved, classic show. I watched it all a couple of years ago (minus the still image reconstructions), and it was quite rewarding 🙂

She probably thought it was going to be a TNG revival show…?