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Outside of the whole Russia plot which felt like a completely unnecessary distraction it was a good season.

if the cartoon reenactment is correct he got half his brains smashed out during the attack but the cartoons did mention them being there for him since he was kid so who knows.

still rocking my 1080, might do a whole new build next year but I don't play super demanding games as much anymore

I was watching the first 2/3s of this thinking "hrmmmm Raimi is really restraining himself on this movie" then there was magic fight involving musical notes and then Strange possessed his zombie corpse across dimensions and made a weapon cape out of the souls of the damned and I was 100% on board. The sould cape was one of the coolest things in the entire MCU.

Spiderman No Way Home I think this is the best thing Marvel has done since Avengers Infinity War 9/10

binged through it in the last few days. I enjoyed it but found a lot of the action to be off by half a beat, not sure if was what the actors were doing, what was being focused on by the camera or the editing but something always seemed just a little off.

Severance Well this show was absolutely brilliant with just the right amount of weird to make unsettling without feeling it is being weird to just be weird. I doubt I will watch a better show than Severance this year. 10/10

Just started playing pathfinder kingmaker and it is excellent so I'm looking forward to owlcat's game

I use my standing desk for about 7 out of 8 hours during the workday

I've been indifferent at best on a lot of Disney's recent offerings but this looks interesting

Not familar with the source material, is there any in universe explanation why Dr Halsey doesn't age? She looks the same in the 30+ years ago flashback scenes with child John as she does the rest of the series.

Jibaro was something else

I have never played a Halo game and have just the vaguest idea about the plot of the game series. I thought the show was ok. Looks great, obviously a huge budget that seems like it was generally well spent. My problem with the series is that Kai was literally the only character I liked on the whole show. Kwan's plot did nothing for the series and just padded out the run time.

The last 3 episodes of season 2 were as good and intense as anything on television in the past few years but it was a slog to get through all the family life stuff that proceeded it

Yeah hologram Janeway was dumb in whatever way was convenient for the plot.

I liked it a lot except for new treks obsession with name dropping and everyone being connected. Did we really need a Kirk and a Nooneign Singh, exploring a descendant of the original augments is fine just make their ancestor one of the hundreds or thousands of augments that we don't know about. Kirk is just going to end up killed by flying amoeba pancake in a few years too.

And I don't mean grading on its a kid's show curve good either. One this is not a little kids show, it is geared towards older Nickelodeon age group I would guess. It also acts as an excellent primer for how things work in the Trek universe so if this is someone's first exposure to Trek they don't have to worry about not knowing what a warpcore or transporter is. The first couple of episodes feel more Star Wars than Star Trek but it gets increasingly Trek as it progresses including a very high concept for a kid's show time dilation episode late in the season. The characters are enjoyable and actually get some legitimate depth and development. Animation overall is solid but can be occasionally stilted. The designs are good and colorful with some actual alien looking aliens taking advantage of being an animated series and not having to put people in makeup. There is not a bad episode in the entire season, they aren't all homeruns but this is probably the best first season of a Trek show since TOS. Still waiting for hologram Janeway to explain the ethics of Tuvix to the young crew though.

I was hit with an absolute tidal wave of nostalgia when the opening theme played. Probably hadn't heard it in 25 years. Watched the first 3 episodes. Baby droppage and imaginary girlfriend felt the most KITH so far.

Paramount put the first episode on YouTube for anyone that wants to give it a shot without subscribing

Had it back in January. Felt like a cold, I am vaxxed and boosted.

On your first point, yeah an "immortal" species might take hundreds of years to die of what they would consider a quick disease or something similar. Your second point is as good as any reason I have seen so far on the cold war. The Q say they have been around forever but you know they are full of shit on that one.

I cannot even remotely wrap my head around how Q/El-Aurian "cold war" works. One side you have a very long lived species with limited psychic powers/senses but can otherwise be killed as easily as a regular human and end up mostly getting wiped out by the Borg and on the otherside you have a species that can control seemingly all of space and time. I can see the El-Aurians being able to sense if the Q were messing with the timeline but what the hell are they going to do about it?

600 years since last contact with the Q would put last contact about 200 years after the current events of Picard. Picard is set around the year 2400, Discovery season 4 is set in 3190, so that makes last contact in the late 2500s. So there are still some Q shenanigans to be had it would seem.

Guinan trying to summon a Q with her magic bottle and none of them showing up seems to indicate that all the Q are either dead or at least significantly depowered not just De Lancie Q