Andrew Bloom

Controversial #StarTrek opinion:

Worf was a hesitant but ultimately good and accepting father to Alexander in TNG. It's DS9 that turned him into a terrible dad.

"It's sixteen miles to the promise land,
And I promise you, I'm doing the best I can."

Forgive my ignorance. Are they not doing dubs because dubs cost more money given the actors who have to be paid for the additional work?

A cover band but they're all doctors

Med Zeppelin

I think the demon gimmick is spoken for

Hey kids

You're gonna feel scared. That's okay. I was scared too.

But you're also gonna feel joy. A joy so big you're gonna wonder if you'd ever really felt joy before.

It'll make you wonder what other beautiful things are hiding in your heart.

And you'll find those too.

#letters4transkids

Sending good cat vibes!

I'd love to see Jek-14, the Freemakers, and that corner of the world be more explored/included! Though I'll acknowledge some of the elements of their stories are a bit out there.

There's a character in Jedi Survivor with a force arm, so at least that facet of Jek-14's deal lives on in some way!

This made my day. Turns out my essay on 'Groundhog Day' for Consequence is cited multiple times on the movie's Wikipedia page, and I'm not sure I've ever felt so honored. Still proud of that one.

Shout out to Matt Melis for greenlighting it and @lizshannonmiller.com for running it again!

The funny thing about Paradise Lost is that its version of Satan's fall is essentially just God as the owner of a company who announces that his son is going to be everyone's new supervisor, with Satan as a disgruntled employee who grumbles that "I should be in charge rather than that nepo baby!"

Gone Girl with the Wind

A display in Target with a banner reading "Latino Heritage Month" with a shelf full of Jack Skellington mugs.

What better way is there to celebrate Latino Heritage Month than with a Jack Skellington mug?

The imagery from that day has been played and replayed and even injected into blockbusters so many times, to the point that it can be desensitizing. But the feeling of that day -- how uncertain everything seemed, how the people we admired and cared about were affected by it -- retains all its power.

My sharpest memory from that day is seeing my math teacher, as jovial and light-hearted an educator as there ever was, weeping in front of the whole school assembly over how many lives had been lost.

The Visitor completely wrecked me

Hamton Pig, Buster Bunny, Babs Bunny, and Plucky Duck in various cowboy outfits in an old west town.

A version of Rick Sanchez in a dingy pair of overalls kicking a bucket in front of an old farmhouse.

TV Serendipity Is: accidentally watching wild west pastiches from both Tiny Toon Adventures and Rick and Morty in the same day. #TVSerendipity

FWIW, I do think you can use the fact that the serum was originally designed for Spock, and then molecularly reversed by a human who's no expert in genetic engineering, to handwave away the most problematic elements here. But I still disike the broad Vulcan caricatures in and of themselves.

Not being Vulcan, I'm no mind reader but I bet the writers viewed the episode as a spiritual succesor to "Charades" from last season, and thought it'd be clever to invoke the serum from that episode as the means of transformation. I can appreciate the idea in principle but again, the implications...

Agreed! We got a bit of that in the Lower Decks episode that introduced T'Lyn, and I thought LD handled things much better, both in the humor department and in the "understanding Vulcans" department.

I blanched at the Vulcan bioessentialism too, and Osler makes a ton of good points here. But I also think the writers probably just wanted to do a wacky Vulcan episode and didn't think too hard about the implications. I saw the serum as a means to an end, not necessarily indicative of a broader POV.

Wicket from the Ewoks cartoon superimposed into the music video for Radiohead's "Creep" signing, "But I'm a creep. I'm a lurdo."

I watched these both a couple years ago. They don't always hold up (Droids especially), but it blows my mind that Paul Dini, of Batman: The Animated Series fame, ran the Ewoks cartoon. If you squint, you can see his little signatures as a writer in that show.

Derrick Henry is in a purple Baltimore Ravens' jersey, staring blankly at the camera, while a literal raven carries a football helmet next to him, with superimposed text that reads: "Derrick Henry: Touchdown"

NBC's graphic for Derrick Henry scoring a touchdown has a little raven flapping its wings and carrying a football helmet in its talons. This is the kind of silly nonsense the #NFL needs more of, I say!

The Gorn Identity

We went down a rabbit hole of how the L.A. Rams got their name, and the answer is an amusing combination of pearl-clutching, laziness, and saving money on printing.

The face of Edgar Allen Poe superimposed on a promo card for Disney's "That's So Raven".

Surely I'm not the first person to think of this, but the idea tickled my funny bone and had to be done.

The face of Edgar Allen Poe superimposed on a promo card for Disney's "That's So Raven".

Surely I'm not the first person to think of this, but the idea tickled my funny bone and had to be done.

A picture of Worf holding a baby with a BBC logo and a title card reading "Call the Midworf: season 1"

Wait! I have something for this!

Someday, there will be time! Someday!

Forever

Babs and Buster Bunny from Tiny Toon Adventures face a hulking, snarling man in a purple suit within a factory office

Me: Time to take my mind off the world's troubles with some old cartoons.

Tiny Toons: Here's a 1991 episode about Climate Change where Babs and Buster square off against an evil polluting billionaire named "Ronald Grump" who heartlessly blights the land while declaring "Your morality is a bore."