What's absurd about it? In order for me to claim that you are incompetent, I need to be able to point to something you are doing or failing to do that is fundamentally incompatible with successful performance of your job. If I'm saying you're an incompetent accountant, it means I can show someone all the accounting mistakes you made in a given period and explain why those WERE mistakes and not just normal business practice. If I'm saying you're an incompetent police officer, it means I can show someone all the ways you violated normal police procedure, all the times you failed to implement your training, and all of the actions you took that made you or your fellow officers unable to properly carry out their duty.
As a rule, I do. Criticism should be constructive, or at the very least, an attempt to draw valid comparisons between equivalent situations. Criticizing something just to be critical is an exercise in jackassery, and criticizing something you couldn't possibly improve upon if you had the chance to is the PINNACLE of jackassery.
Of course I'll return a broken appliance. But I will certainly refrain from writing an angry letter to the manufacturer accusing him of "incompetent manufacturing" unless I know for a fact he did something wrong, and I know WHAT he did wrong. I was actually delighted that I was able to do this when I returned a box of LED lights to a manufacturer because they all had the same defect; all five of them had the wrong resister on their boards and it was making their touch sensors overly sensitive to changes in battery current (thus the lights would start behaving erratically when the batteries were halfway drained). It was obvious they hadn't done enough product testing on these, especially after so many people had complained about this issue that they SHOULD have figured this out by now and changed the resisters.
I don't think so b/c we saw in Archer's time the mirror universe govt is already evil, but in this universe they identify the govt as benevolent.
That's because Lorca's an asshole. This latest episode came perilously close to portraying him as an antihero, which is kind of interesting, but on the whole he's mainly just a classic Jerkass Protagonist.
I don't think we're supposed to be rooting for Lorca. I think we're supposed to be rooting for Stamets and Burnham and are supposed to recognize that Saru sort of dropped the ball on this one but eventually made good on it by letting Ripper go.
That assumes that Tyler is human and not, as it were, a surgically altered VoqSo why was L'Rell on that prison ship instead of wherever we last saw her with Voq?
Also I didn't realize it was L'Rell until I checked Memory-Alpha, she seemed to act like a completely different character too (she didn't strike me as a sedistress with a human fetish).
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What, NONE of it? You don't even like "The Arsenal of Freedom"???
I've been asking that question since 2008.
What, NONE of it? You don't even like "The Arsenal of Freedom"???
Do you even Star Trek, bro?
Because you are an irredeemable, slack-jawed, intellectually devoid, blind, drooling, beef-witted applejohn if you don't see things my way, because DSC is literally the most insulting, awful, pandering, Ill-conceived piece of fiction presented in any medium in the history of the human race. Obviously if you had any sophistication or taste (like ME), you'd know this...but I'll take my time explaining it to you, since I know you struggle with comprehension.
Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm going to watch DSC again so I can be better equipped to point out how awful it is in a witty, snarky, condescending fashion to anyone in this sub forum who hasn't already hit the "ignore" button me.
Good day.
Hey now, I've been called unreasonable, irrational, immoral and not a true Trek fan elsewhere for being okay with some of the choices made by the writers and producers, but I've never been called slack-jawed! How dare you accuse me of drool!
I thought that was evil.
