Flash Gordon succeeded as a cult classic rather than a bonafide blockbuster solely on the strength of the soundtrack by Queen. Otherwise, it's excessively expensive camp just like George Clooney's Batman & Robin. That's the real reason why it never got a sequel.

... should have allowed the creature to come all the way through and devastate both Starfleet's and the Romulans' gathered armadas as Picard died on the surface of the planet. The second season should have told the stories of various current and former Starfleet officers who were Picard's many proteges. Picard himself could easily have continued as a major force in the series through flashbacks and "never before seen" recorded messages.

Discovery has multiple problems right from the start, and I'm not even through the first season. What was the necessity to change the Klingons so drastically? They've gone from vaguely caveman to insectoid in appearance without any explanation. Klingon speech used to be guttural but clear, but it sounds like they all have mouths full of mashed potatoes. Their names used to be simple, like Worf or Kor or Gowron, now the names are much more complicated. The names of some of the prominent Klingons, T'Kuvma and L'Rell, actually follow more of a Vulcan naming convention. They've also gone from being an almost cartoonish representation of toxic masculinity to religious fanatics. This series also has Vulcan extremists (?), mind melds that stretch over several parsecs (One parsec is approximately equal to 31 trillion kilometers or 3.3 light-years), and a human capable of 𝘪𝘯𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 mind melds. I was trying to let all that go until episode 11 put Discovery right into the most played out, excessively used gag in all of Star Trek: the mirror universe.

So it was the mirror universe that set me off ranting about lazy storytelling and how much I despise it. Although, I suppose you could say I've gained some patience. When a Vulcan lost his temper and yelled in the pilot of Enterprise, I turned that off immediately. On the good side, my aggravation was sufficient that I got the dishwasher emptied, refilled, and started again.

St. Anger is the hill I'll die on. Hetfield's lyrics are clearly all about his struggles to remain sober. Lars's highly annoying drums are a tacit ission that a normally steady, reassuring presence can be an irritant to someone who is already struggling. The rough, unfinished sound is another way of showing how nothing seems to go right when you're struggling. St. Anger isn't an album, it's a State of the Union address from the band and is actually one of Metallica's best because of its raw honesty.

In 2014, there was a major controversy over excessive accentuation of body parts due to Milo Manara's Spider-Woman cover. Why is there a completely different treatment of objectification this time? Is it because Nightwing is male and Spider-Woman is female? DC vs. Marvel? What am I missing here?

Since when did Richards invent the Ultimate Nullifier? That was given to him by the Watcher to fend off Galactus in the 4th(?) issue of the original Lee/Kirby series.