mattingly
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mattingly reacted to Ternaugh in Foods for those that just don't care anymore
"I'll take my peanut butter cookie recipe to the grave!"
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mattingly reacted to Pariah in What Have You Watched Recently?
Hemmer was one of my favorite characters in Season 1, but I don't want to see him come back. Unlike certain other Trek characters I could mention (Tasha Yar, Jadzia Dax), Hemmer's death had meaning. To bring him back would cheapen his sacrifice. I don't want Hemmer to become the Jean Grey of Strange New Worlds.
But I agree that Carol Kane's character is a placeholder, just as Hemmer was. I know this because neither character has a proper Scottish accent.
One thing I missed in my earlier post: Dr. M'Benga has a dark past, and it doesn't involve his daughter. I wonder how big a deal they're planning to make of it.
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mattingly reacted to Old Man in What Have You Watched Recently?
Spider-Man Across the Spider-Verse (no spoilers). Just as spectacular as the first one. Be advised that this movie has no ending; it is the first of two parts. Long for an animated film at around two hours and 15 minutes. No mid- or post-credits scenes. Man does web-swinging look like fun.
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mattingly got a reaction from archer in What Have You Watched Recently?
Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Season 1. Dang, this first season really worked.
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mattingly reacted to Scott Ruggels in What Have You Watched Recently?
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds was recently dropped on Youtube, and I spent Yesterday binge watching the whole first season (10 Episodes). It's more li9ke Old Star Trek, than the excrable discovery, but the tone is a little off, a littl bt snarky around the edges, and the cast has a suspicious amount of women in it, but the stories in the broad strokes seemed very Star Trek, even if the details didn't. One of the Episodes, they redid a classic Star Trek Episode, and showed how a difference in approach lead to catastrophic consequences. Now it wan't as good as the Third Season of Picard, and there were echoes of Discovery in the first two episodes. The Smell of Michael Burnham had not yet oleft the room. Speaking of rooms, the sets were enormous! this version of the Enterprise was gigantic on the inside, and the use of a Ski Resort firepit in the captain's cabin was a ludicrous touch of interior design.On tyhe whole, it's better than Discovery, but not as good at 3rd Season Picard.
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mattingly reacted to Ternaugh in What Have You Watched Recently?
I've finished season 3 of Star Trek: Picard, and it is much better than both seasons that came before. Part of that is a return of the Next Generation core characters, behaving in ways we expect (even if the details have changed). There's quite a bit of nostalgia at play, and this season as a whole seems amost like a continuation of the Next Generation movies, or even a throwback to some of the better Next Gen episodes. It's also fairly obvious that the actors enjoyed the chance to work with each other again in the Star Trek setting, and it's perhaps our last chance to see all of them together onscreen.
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