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That was a pretty fun bit of silliness - low-calorie, but it looked like the cast had a good time.

The La'an/Spock storyline is unexpected, but damned if Ethan Peck and Christina Chong don't have chemistry.

Obviously continue to watch something you dislike, despite there being many other things you can do with your life.

Yeah, I'm inclined to agree. I'm not against puppets, but a TAS-style adventure would have been fun.

Yeah, I think it's pretty uncontroversial at this point to say the Disney deal was a dud.

I don't want to dispute this too much, because it's obviously true, but Disney is also making the occasional thing like "Andor", which is neither safe nor unchallenging.

But the exception proves the rule, and so on.

The guy doesn't have the permit yet, so it seems likely that it won't be granted, as long as the application process gives them space to deny permission.

At least in these parts, it seems like no one's talking about Hamilton - they're shaping up to be a bit if a dark horse.

The Als are the only team in the East that seem to get any credit.

If panic buttons aren't yet being pressed in Bomberville, a lot of people are at least inching closer to them.

until now Gold has done a pretty good job.

True - I've already mentioned that I don't like some of the other choices he made in this season, but he has also turned in some really good stuff by this point.

We also get his line, “An ordinary man, that’s the most important thing in creation.”

Thanks for mentioning this - it's very much a core sentiment of the series, and is even repeated later in this episode when the Doctor gets the married couples' backstory.

If they're really going to join the fleet from time to time, maybe we'll finally see this era's Enterprise.

USS Athena

You'd think watching one (1) episode of Doctor Who per week wouldn't be too difficult, but there are times when it's hard to squeeze it in...

"Father's Day" stands out to me because it's a good episode that's successful in spite of...just about everything about it.

The weak production values that have plagued the season are still on full display. It's shot in a largely boring fashion, and is downright maudlin at times. I absolutely hate Murray Gold's choices, with those string chords that suddenly turn downward, which doesn't sound sad so much as it sounds like there's something wrong with the audio track. The episode does everything it can to be bad.

And it fails. The story is great, and the performances are better. Shaun Dingwall nails the portayal of Pete Tyler, likeable fuckup. Camille Coduri is great as Jackie, as always. Billie Piper turns in what is easily her best performance as Rose so far. Eccleston is good as always, but since the Doctor is in a pretty dour mood for most of the episode, he doesn't get to show a ton of range.

The creatures (apparently called "Reapers" in ancillary material) are interesting, and it's a shame the concept has never been revisited. The episode does a lot to establish that time paradoxes can be a thing, and it's possible to do a lot of damage with time travel, even though it's not something the series typically worries about.

But in the end, the strength of the episode is its simplicity. Rose can't help but save her dad, he eventually realizes who she is and learns of his own fate, and has to sacrifice himself to make things right.

They do look awfully Mogh-like...

This casting makes it easy to attack as woke and might limit its audience.

In all seriousness, that would be the absolute best reason for this series to fail. I would be incredibly proud of it.

I didn't expect the apparent flashback framing device - Russ and Takei are a nice surprise.

Oof, I tuned in during the second quarter. It didn't look great then, and it only got worse.

Collaros is out again. The D line still gives up way too much.

Streveler looked okay, though. And good for Arbuckle - he had it together.

Whenever this happens, it looks absolutely fine on some Mastodon instances (I just checked, and this post looks fine on my own), and "wrong" on others (like yours).

That suggests to me that the issue may lie with the Mastodon server, but I genuinely don't know, and have no idea how to replicate the issue.

That is a bit of weirdness that happens sometimes when Lemmy posts federate to Mastodon. It sometimes grabs the thumbnail and headline from a completely different post.

I have no idea why, but it's incredibly annoying.

Honestly, my biggest fear is that Paramount+ may not have a lot of the demographic they're trying to capture.

How many young adults subscribe to that thing?

Like some other jurisdictions, Canada has protections against self-incrimination.

Any person charged with an offence has the right ... not to be compelled to be a witness in proceedings against that person in respect of the offence ...