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I saw a little bit of Gotham during S1, fell behind, and kind of gave up.  Then I decided to binge and catch up awhile back.  I wound up really enjoying S1, and didn't really get put off by the haters who had bashed it at the time.  S2 was really good, I thought the characters and the actors were terrific.  So far S3 I've also enjoyed, particularly the growing team of Bruce and Selina.  Chiklis and Jada Pinkett have been great guests/recurring. 

Now I'm a bit biased, because I've met these actors a few times, and they were nothing but awesome in person.....Robin Lord Taylor alone keeps me watching.  The guys is both hilarious and nutso!  Corey Michael Smith is devious, one of the best Riddlers I've ever seen post-Gorshin, and Drew Powell and Sean Pertwee are great too.  Drew in particular was great, I met him at a con in NJ, and he didn't have a big line, so we traded Indy 500 memories (he's from there) for awhile.

Then there's the women!  Jessica Lucas and Erin Richards, wow, wow, wow, those two alone would make for a great series!  Erin is just plain terrific as the maniac Barbara Kean. 

Because they shoot in New York, I feel this show can incorporate so many of the local character and stage actors, many with a substantial resume, like Peter Scolari, Richard Kind, John Doman, David Zayas, BD Wong, and more.  Then to spring in with Paul Reubens and Melinda Clarke, also great.

I don't know where the show goes from here, in terms of its production future.  The ratings are not exactly great.  I hope it keeps going.

Honestly Kerr I wouldn't complain if they retired ALL franchises!  Let's get back to how they made and distributed movies 30-40 years ago! 

Abrams lack of Trekness was not an issue.  He didn't write the script, that was supposed fans Orci and Kurtzman, who've yet to turn in a film script that wasn't dog poop.  JJ had a vision for Trek in theaters in the 21st century that would appeal to the masses.  He was successful in that respect.  The franchise has been crap though due to bad writing, or a lack of writing in favor of bad jokes, CGI, and CGI. 

At this point, I wonder if the new series even gets off the ground?

I definitely remember a crouteru handle, I think.  Hi again.

If you recall, the Peck/Dial braintrust decided to reinsert the Kromaggs as the chief bad guys, and as they were full of plenty of lazy thoughts, this is what you got.

None of these people terrify me, because I know they are largely cowards!  Quite a bit of evidence there.  However, the deep ties/chains to lobbyists for the energy, Pharma, banking and other industries is really the large concern.  Both parties are ruled by these interests.  McCain Feingold was gutted by a conservative Supreme Court, and until something similar is written to law, it will only get worse. 

I think the Democrats are actually in an interesting position, IF they truly can finally purge themselves of the Clinton camp.  This seems likely.  Will they be further left?  Probably, but to be honest, it's clear populism is IN. 

As for Trump, I found it funny that the "Prediction Professor," who has a perfect Prez election record, has now said he expects Trump to be impeached at some point.  We'll see about that, but his team is perhaps the most insular I've ever seen.  They are loyalists first, experience second, an incredibly big red flag.  They have already tried to hide from the press, and we saw how they acted during the campaign. 

To me the gravest threats posed to the American people are due to climate change and cyber attack.  The days of nuclear and even foreign terrorism being high on the list are over.  You're much more likely to have your personal identity and even finances stolen from cyber terrorists.  The nation's economy is at very HIGH risk as well, due to hacking.   I felt like Obama did nothing about this, and Trump will do even less, especially after benefiting from Wikileaks and refusing to point the finger at Russia as EVERY intelligence service did.  Climate Change is the #1 threat, to both the United States and the world.  The amount of death and financial destruction is second to none.  GOP has been so bad on this, it is frankly treasonous.  They are in the pockets of the energy industry, and nothing has gotten done.  Trump will likely reverse the orders Obama has given on this, driving the US and the world into the abyss much sooner.

Problem is sure people despise Hillary, but obviously too damn DUMB to not be duped by an ego-maniac in Donald Trump.  Sorry, they're that stupid, as Donald himself joked last winter.  "How stupid are the people of Iowa?"  Pretty dumb.  John Kasich would have won this thing by 10 points.  But because he behaved like an intelligent, sensible, if "dull" person, they ignored him.  The Breibart's and the Drudge's have done nothing but poison the electorate.  They've made reasonable, experienced, rational public officials with a conservative lean afraid for their lives.  How many instances?  Trump went after hispanics, POW's, women, Muslims, our NATO allies.  He went after Republicans.  He torched the Bush family.  He praised Vladimir Putin.  At NO point did the Republican side check him.  He grabbed some pussy alright, he grabbed a party of pussies and tossed them into the garbage shoot. 

So yeah, Hillary will win.  Frankly I don't want to hear the "evil" shit or whatever.   Evil.  Give me a break.  Trump's buddy Putin has actually had opposition "disappeared."  That guy is "evil."  The turd who runs Turkey, he could be called evil.  The maniac in North Korea, evil.  Clinton has raised money, she and her operation have put in tremendous amounts of work on the ground.  I worked briefly in politics, there's still nothing more important than a good ground game.  She might be over-ambitious, but evil?  Donald Trump is a loud mouth bully who has plunged political discourse, civility, and public service into the abyss.  Americans get exactly what they ask for.  They were too afraid to back the "socialist" Bernie Sanders.  They were too afraid to back centrists such as Kasich.  Candidates with far more respect than the current two. 

The Obama's have ZERO scandals after 8 years.  They've represented the American people well.  His popularity is well earned.

Wow those DVD's look like crap.  Packaging is garbage.

He's gearing up to "move" his followers to a new media empire, aka Trump News or whatever.  It's clear this has been his aim for a long time, maybe the ENTIRE time.  He has no interest in actually being elected President. 

That being said, refusing to accept the official results nationwide, especially results that are likely to see him CLOBBERED, is disgusting, unconstitutional, and most importantly DANGEROUS.  He has inflamed quite a few crazies along the way, and if he goes forward with this rigged shit, one could only imagine the violence that may well ensue.  To light a match on a fuel full of hatred, anger, angst, desperation, etc., is very bad.  This was perhaps the most irresponsible moment in the history of the American Presidential electoral history.  Even I never imagined he would be this vile and pathetic.  I cannot wait to see his face on November 8th, after losing in a landslide.

Wow, nice research!  His selling the DVDs are fine by me then.

http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2016-el … ks-n666656

It's this degree of infantile behavior that time and time again disqualifies this **insert swear word** from being elected dog catcher let alone President.  I'm sorry, I don't want to be represented by a real life version of the fictional Vince McMahon.

Hillary is not attacking Syria.  Frankly there's nothing left to attack there.  She'll be rebuffed by Congress regardless.  Also, it was Trump who said the other night that our nuclear arsenal was suddenly out of date, and that Russia were upgrading theirs.  This was not only false of course, it was ludicrous.  Another arms race?  Come on.  As for the Supreme Court, I think the GOP made a huge gaffe by refusing Judge Garland, because I personally feel he is moderate if not slightly conservative, and if Hillary wins, she can nominate another Ginsberg and there's little they can do about it.

Trump supporters chant jail her, they have shirts calling Bill a rapist, while Donald says the election system is rigged, the polls are fake, he lies without repent.  If we allow this guy to succeed after running a campaign that resides in the sewers, what does that say about democracy going forward?  Reward the guy or gal who can lie the most, rile up the most people with falsehoods and bigotry?  The same guy who has been reported to have next to no attention span, and limited interest in actual policies?  At some point, you have to take the stand that the decency must win out.  We cannot reward him, and be left with an autocrat like in The Philippines.

As I've said from the start, as bad as Hillary is, she will not be a daily embarrassment to the United States.  Trump would be.  His rally last night was clear evidence of that, as he ramped up the lies.  This is a guy with an out of control ego, who would challenge the Constitution from day one, and probably wouldn't make it very long before both parties called for impeachment.

13, heck man Stranger Things was the "hit" of the summer on Netflix, and it was only 8!  Most of the HBO/Showtime/Starz series are just 12 episodes.  It works for a number of reasons.  First, you don't need fluff episodes, and you can tell the season arc much tighter, without dragging it on and on.  Second, people are busy, and even with DVR's, catching up on a 22-episode series is tough.  Third, obviously it's cheaper.  Plus you can sign a Woody Harrelson or Jeff Bridges or Claire Danes to do a season of 10-12 episodes.  They'd never agree to sign for 6 months.

She's not dropping out, but as far as I know, both parties have similar rules in this matter.  They would have the power to vote on another candidate.  It probably would not require all the delegates, just the committee itself.  David Schuster, a reporter/TV host, who was fired for stretching the truth, "reported" on this the other day, for (no surprise) the Moscow-owned RT news channel.  He said the Dems would draft Joe Biden.  The bigger issue is that most states would not allow a name change on the ballot at this time, so people would be in the booth voting for Hilary when in fact she was no longer running.  And no, she does NOT have Parkinson's.  The accusation the wackjobs have made on that is an insult to the poor souls who truly suffer from that disease, because what they've even claimed she was exhibiting are in fact NOT associated with Parkinson's.

If Jerry needed the money, he could get booked easily to smaller conventions around the country, no problem.  Trust me.  Casper Van Dien does a million of them, and he is basically only known for one cheesy sci-fi film that bombed at the box office.

I've asked promoters before, they haven't been interested.  JRD does cons because of Indiana Jones and Lord of the Rings.  O'Connell could do okay I guess.

As for Cleavant, he's gotta leave the premises somehow!  Stinks you didn't see him, but a big reason I didn't travel that far was I was completely unfamiliar with the venue vs. Broadway in NYC which I know well.

It was bad in every way imaginable.

Again I work in the industry and we only "destroy" drives that have personal financials on them like credit card numbers.  Tech has changed though and we don't even keep the numbers anymore.  Hillary could have easily deleted 15,000 spam messages, but Trump claims these are valid. 

Anywho, Gary Johnson showed why it is that 3rd parties continue to fall flat on their face.  He had next to no knowledge or even opinion on the mess in Syria.  The reason is that his platform, like that of many 3rd parties, is seemingly zoomed in on specific issues, and blank on everything else.  Can't do that. 

Meanwhile Trump continues to praise Russian President Putin, an enemy of democracy in Russia and abroad, for how in control of his country he is.  Sorry Don, that's called a dictatorship.  You've got almost anything related to Clinton being hacked by Russian sources, and released on the web by Wikileaks.  Assange has made it clear he's vehemently anti-Clinton.  Again, you've got a candidate sees nothing wrong with the methods of the Kremlin, one who may well OWE millions of dollars to Russian banks.  Difficult to know, because he refuses to release his taxes.

Hillary is pretty bad, very fake, shallow, conniving, you name it.  I think she's harmed her candidacy by NOT acting like Trump.  To be honest, the email thing is a farce.  There's really not much there.  Government employees treat "classified" info like junk all the time.  She used private email, big deal, everybody does.  Like Powell, I wouldn't trust certain communications on government servers.  There's a natural CYA inclination there.  Bengazi is a non-story, sorry but it is.  A bad thing happened, we learned from it, and should have moved on years ago.  Much WORSE has happened and been ignored.  She should have stuck to her story, and when called out, just kept brushing it away like Trump.   That seems to work!

Now Mr. Trump.....

http://www.cnn.com/2016/08/23/politics/ … index.html

And there we have it, Trump has basically adopted Obama's immigration stance.  Besides his hilarious rebuke of Free Trade, The Donald's main line of demarcation was immigration.  Nope.  Gone. 

http://www.cnn.com/2016/08/23/politics/ … index.html

In another hilarious Trump moment, his "medical letter" released last year is now getting further scrutiny.  Sounds like Donny himself put it out there as good PR, and slapped his doc's letterhead on there.  MD's have scrutinized it with quite a bit of shock as well as jest. 

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/21/us/po … .html?_r=0

Of course my favorite Trump turn is the ouster of his campaign director Paul Mannafort, primarily for losing, but also for his nefarious ties to Ukrainian quasi-despot Viktor Yanukovych!  The media really hasn't covered this properly, although the NY Times spent 3 months investigating and began to do so.  As many have suspected or known, Trump's business is in debt, a lot of it.  Then again, he "loves debt" after all, and has made a career out of running it up, and running away when the bills come due.  More importantly, Trump owes a LOT of money to both China as well as Russia banks. 

Why?  Many companies do, but the main reason is that Mr. Trump's credit is PUTRID.  Has been for years, thanks again to skipping the check time after time.  He's been forced to go over seas to get loans to build his golf courses and buildings and such.  As a business man, that's fine.  As President?  That's plain scary.  Here's a man who owes money to China and Russia, the other 2 superpowers, and as Prez will have the ability to influence US monetary policy greatly in his favor!  This stands to save him potentially hundreds of millions of dollars, while doing the US economy much harm.  Sure, the Clintons are pay to play, we all know that, but what they've rung out of "donors" is chump change compared to what Trump is capable of.  For the first time, I can actually SEE a valid reason for Trump to WANT to be the President, and it's a bad one.

PS: Oh, there's also rumors he and (finally outed) dirtbag Roger Ailes win or lose, will start a new network that presumably would be even more nutty than Fox News!

It's bad, just all bad.

Trump has now frustrated his own campaign so badly, there are reports of them "mailing it in now."  RNC is currently gathering leaders to discuss Plan B should Trump have a tantrum at any moment and run away with his ball and quit.

Sorry, Hillary doesn't frighten me.  I'll sleep at night, same with Obama, and honestly the same with Bush.  The President makes very few ACTUAL direct decisions, but the one he or she will need to make are usually fairly crucial.  Trump has no clue about anything outside of his own world, which frankly isn't much more than concerns over himself, himself, and oh by the way, himself.  The #1 reason I oppose him is he'll likely appoint Chris Christie as his AG, and that piece of garbage is one of the most bullying, corrupt, power-hungry, back-stabbing turds this side of the 19th century. 

PS: the Clinton body count stuff is a joke.  I could make the same argument about the Bush's, how their family bankrolled fascists like Hitler prior to WWII, something they were TRIED for.  The coziness with the Bin Laden family, etc., etc.  Where does it get anyone?  I can tell you something that is fact.  Donald Trump's entire real estate empire was built in the 70's and 80's with STRONG Mafia ties.  He was the front man for casinos in Atlantic City he should never have been allowed to own, given his consigliere Roy Cohn was a mob-affliated NY lawyer and power broker.  Trump is dirty, perhaps dirtier than any major candidate before.

I'll wait until it's on a service I have, not paying $15 to see it.  It's been said that given the NCC-1031 designation spotted on the Starship Discovery (in the SDCC teaser), the new series will be set at some point before TOS.  Now, as we know, the NCC designations as used in TOS were not always so easily "organized."  Reason being that the set artists tended to prefer to do as little redressing ($$$) as possible.  This wound up with situations such as USS Constellation getting NCC-1017 of course.

I didn't see the need for Superman on the show to be honest.  I think having a series and film franchise operating at the same time yet separate is pretty strange.  One at a time please.

Well it wasn't proven whether the Axanar guy really paid himself a salary or what-not.  However, that production clearly went off the rails, both by raising a LOT of money via Kickstarter, and essentially hiring people left and right.  I think that stuff gets very murky, and should be curtailed.  So I'm with CBS in the spirit of their rules.  However, they went way too far.  The time-limits, preventing past Trek employees from working, things like that, not good.  You don't see Star Wars (arguably a far more active property) imposing these restrictions.  Then again, I suppose if Billy Dee Williams were to appear in one of them, Disney might get antsy.  That being said, the Star Wars universe is once again alive.  The Trek universe we knew (TOS, TNG, DS9, VOY, ENT) is dead.  I'm not sure what Fuller has in mind, but I seriously would be shocked if he went back to the well for actors from those shows.

They can donate all they want, but the rub is going to be clear.  If Trump continues to behave in this manner, he'll tick off independent voters, who will shy away from the GOP line.  If he fades badly and there's no chance of victory, Republicans will stay home. 

Even worse, apparently the list of GOP headliners willing to speak in Cleveland is VERY short.  This is really the worst news of all for The Donald.  How can you captivate the public for several days when no one is going to speak???  Having Sarah Palin during prime time is not going to cut it. 

There's over 4 months to go, but John McCain was sunk the moment he looked pretty foolish trying to dictate the Federal response to the 2008 financial crisis.  Obama urged patience, not to mention that he recognized neither of them were yet elected President and allowed GWB to do his job.  That was one moment.  Trump has had several of these in the last couple weeks alone.  He tweets on every major crisis, giving his well thought musings, probably while dropping a deuce.

Are you kidding, every employee of a cable news organization, and 90% of comedians are praying for mayhem, and most of them are atheists!  Not gonna happen, to quote Dana Carvey.  Trump's campaign is probably going to be broke by Cleveland anyway, because he won't take the RNC's money.  They refuse to use data modeling, they think his dumb tweets and crazy speeches will propel them home.  No chance.  The last and perhaps only successful "populist" candidate was Andrew Jackson, 200 years ago.  In other words, he needs them, or he'll be bankrupt himself for like the 6th time.

Anything short of a complete withdrawal by The Donald would mean an open revolt at the convention.  Sure the vast majority of actual delegates are still firmly in the RNC's corner, they are not Trumpites.  But to deny him on the grounds that he'll lose, that's a step I can't imagine they have the balls to pull off.  Trump and his supporters and voters would flip out.  He'd spend every minute from then until November telling his voters who to vote against in the fall. 

The GOP created this mess, now they're drowning in it.  They conditioned their voters with 24/7 Fox-fed bombast about how everything that happens in Washington is crooked and corrupt.  That everyone who works as a Federal employee is on the dole and doesn't actually DO anything productive.  The Trumpster has watched this, he's heard this, and he wisely calculated that if I portray myself as the 21st Century Archie Bunker he would ride that wave like he was on easy street.

He was a great actor, destined for quite a lot, very nice, humble guy too.  Quite a shame.

Info is right, they'd better have mullets!!!!

Seriously though, the biggest issue is telling a story that is fresh, which in Star Trek is very difficult.  The Abrams films should have done that, they branched off in such a dramatic way, and yet movie #2 was a pathetic rehash mess.  They've seemed to go full on Marvel in Beyond. 

Personally I don't care what technology they feature or how they interact within the "prime" universe.  A Trek series needs to have strong stories with a message.  That's what captured me when I was an adolescent watching TNG or DS9.

Thoughts....

1. To answer the canon question, this series is "rumored" to follow the original, pre-Orci movie canon.  That means all 10 films and the 5 TV shows, which is music to my ears because I have little affinity for his stories.

2. An anthology series is quite intriguing.  Ironically this is basically what they've been doing with the fan-produced series for years now.  Moreover, this is the new trend.  More and more TV series are doing it, and changing out the casts season after season.  This allows shorter arcs, that can be more focused and fresh.  I like it.

3. CBS All Access I think to me sucks.  Why would I PAY for a service for one show?  Really dumb idea.

4. I'm generally happy to hear about this, because as I said, I'd given up on the franchise.  The movies do nothing for me, and the 2nd one was terrible.