This is true. What was genuinely unique and inspiring about our founding document isn't how perfect it was but that it was designed so that it could grow and evolve over time to be closer to perfect. People talk about the "founding fathers", but I'm pretty sure that if they were actually able to see what is happening to what they built and what some claim to do in their name. pride would not be the feeling that they would be expressing right now.

I legitimately didn't realize it was an actual celebrity when the scene started. It is a weird divergence in the flow of the story. But what actually threw me was that I didn't really think that sharing earbuds was a thing? Might just be my OCD talking, though.

My only gripe was that he was weirdly unimportant to the plot. He barely spoke, and he also gave off none of his in-ring charisma (although it arguably would have been weird to see him go full People's Champion in the middle of a space ring). For all he contributed to the actual episode, they could have used any old stuntperson (although yes, I know that it was a promotional appearance).

Funny. I don't remember him being advertised at all, to the point of being surprised to see him at the end. But to be fair, I wouldn't have been exposed to a ton of advertising at the time.

His first appearance wasn't great, but it did have a few moments that were memorable to me. The less we talk about his last appearance, the better.

I just rewatched that scene the other day. It's such a brilliant setup.

This is arguably the most underrated joke of the entire series. I remembered there was some kind of confusion over him getting the gig, but it wasn't until I saw the episode a year ago that I remembered this was the bit.

You know, I'm just realizing that I didn't think those guys chasing them were the indigenous species. I think I thought they were some kind of mercenaries set up to ambush the Enterprise crew. Mainly because B4 was considered a "trap" or lure of some kind, but also because I guess, as is being pointed out, it doesn't make sense for them to go down there and engage them that way.

I typically don't like mirror universe episodes because they complicate an already convoluted timeline. The TNG novel that covers it is okay, because it tries to followup on the TOS timeline of their episode. But from there, it becomes more and more difficult to place most of the cast into plotlines, because it makes less sense for them to be involved with each other.

I love mirror universe Kira (maybe more than I should, but that's another discussion), but the entire situation with the Terran Empire, the Bajorans, and the associated dynamics just get insane.

At least Enterprise did us the service of not even trying to tie into the main universe with their story. I think it was deliberately over the top on purpose, which actually made it entertaining in its own way.

Thank you for reminding me that my "..." at the end there was so much worse than I remembered it.

My main counter argument to flat earth being real is that there is no profit to it. For a conspiracy that large to maintain itself, we would seriously need to have it backed by a massive amount of power and influence, and that could only come with some major purpose.

Imagining that level of commitment being executed properly and the reasons around it would probably break my brain.

I understand him getting caught up in reclaiming lost glory, but I never forgive this movie for making Rocky ignore his kid. When he won the title, he said it was the second greatest moment of his life. How do you go to that to completely ignoring moment number one?

And I "get" it, but I just wanted a little more. Maybe if Rocky himself realized what he was doing instead of needing to be told by Adrian. It got better when I rewatched it, but it takes me out of it every single time.

Had that been the last movie (as we imagined it was at the time), that would have been an amazing anthem to end everything on.

Rocky vs. Superman.

...wait. Does anyone remember the name of Rocky's mom...?

He also probably would have taken some heat for taking an unsanctioned match in Russia. Yes, they would have loved that he won, but I can imagine some level of blacklisting in the industry. He still probably could have found a job, though.

My headcanon is that right around the time someone would have started to approach him was when he started to train Tommy. They probably figured he was doing okay (or would be doing okay soon) and kinda stepped away from the idea.

I don't know how long they could have legged it out post-reveal, but Lorca not going full loco and just being a conflicted but otherwise effective leader would have been fine to see for a while. Considering what they did with Georgiou (and how inexplicably popular the character is), it's not like it would have hurt to try.

Although I imagine pinning down Issacs for multiple seasons might have been logistically and financially difficult.

Sela was an interesting character in some ways, but she never sat well with me. For one, her origin basically killed Tasha for the third time (1st: regular timeline; 2nd: aborted timeline, but going back to die in the past; 3rd: oh, she survived that, but...). As much as it bugged me to see Tasha die so randomly in the series, it bothered me more to think of her as a POW that ended up betrayed by her own child.

But I think the worst thing they did to her was having Picard just straight up tell her that he didn't believe her story. I get that from a character standpoint, she shouldn't be trusted. But having him say that to her just ends up discrediting and devaluing her before we even got to know her. I think it would have been interesting to have the extra dynamic of her relationship to Tasha being acknowledged, but they probably weren't planning to use her much after that anyway.

As much as I personally love DS9, I can absolutely respect that it would not be everyone's cup of tea. It is the Trek show that goes the hardest against the grain of what Trek shows are usually like.

You will never convince me that naming the ship Picard was not in the script at some point. I feel like I heard that it was, but I have no source. But the setup for it made perfect sense, and it would have been a nice bookend for the finale of the series, almost like saying, "This is why the series is named this."

And I get the handful of reasons why they wouldn't have done it. But making it the next Enterprise was very underwhelming.

My understanding is that the original premise for the series was to have the Maquis/Starfleet dichotomy be a bigger part of the show, but the producers/execs wanted there to be a larger theme of unity, so they axed that. That's why everyone ends up in Starfleet uniforms by the end of the pilot (I think the Maquis being in civilian gear during the holonovel/simulation episode was a throwback to how they originally envisioned the crew, but I never confirmed that).

As unique as Voyager was at the time, I think a little more division could have been interesting. If nothing else, I wish they would have spent a little more time having the crew react to the news about the Maquis once the ship was able to receive reports on it. One scene with B'Elanna and Chakotay just didn't cut it.

I'm here for this. Any show. Any movie. Just pops in, gives some speech about faith or hope or whatever, tosses out a line about going to visit his son. We're all good.

I mean, if 4 years of being called "fake news", being derided by then president Trump, and literally being called "enemies of the state" by him didn't do it, I don't see why they would suddenly wake up to it now.

I had genuine beef with this. Novelty aside, the entire idea of that Superman movie is not something casual watchers would even know about. My wife thought it was weird, but I did not have the time or ability to explain the significance of it during the actual movie.

And really, it was just a bad insert into an already chaotic sequence. My gripe with that "montage" is that it tried to celebrate decades of DC movie history, decades of DC entertainment in various media, and years of Flash history all at once, and sorta failed at all of them by being all over the place.

This happened to a friend of mine. She spent the first half of the video saying, "No...!" as in "No way is this really happening..." but everyone there understood that because she was clearly happy. But one of his friends that was there eventually just spat out, "Stop saying no," and everyone had a laugh.

Comics have differing art styles all of the time, so I don't hate this particular look for Hellboy. It might work better for a more grounded, smaller stakes story (which this may or may not be, but I'm just saying).