I saw it. And laughed, I cried and it moved me.
I stand by my overall observation though.
This is my experience as well. I'm recycling old points, which is not surprising in the least, considering the same kind of nitpicking repeats itself over and over, but I couldn't help but notice that when we're nitpicking older shows, it's usually light-hearted poking fun at the failings of something we love. But whenever I see any nitpicking about the Kurtzman era shows, it has a far more negative and acerbic, sometimes downright accusatory tone, presented as genuine faults and flaws distracting from enjoying the episode in question as a whole. If we see the Enterprise-D shoot phasers from its torpedo launcher or Voyager having a fleet's worth of torpedoes and replacement shuttlecraft, they're funny bits that are pointed out and laughed at. But Discovery launching torpedoes from its nacelle tips or a starbase described as 100 AU away from Earth being shown orbiting it are unquestionable proof that Discovery is an unwatchable manure pile that damages the franchise, and its creators are talentless hacks who don't have an ounce of respect for Gene's vision and don't know the littlest bit about Star Trek. Whenever Chakotay is described as a piece of wood, Sisko as fundamentally angry or Worf as the loser who always gets shot down by Picard and has his ass handed to him by the alien-of-the-week, it can be understood as "and we love them that way." But Michael Burnham is constantly described as this fundamentally unlikeable person without a single redeeming quality whatsoever who is diagnosed with every single personality disorder imaginable and her entire body consists of tear ducts, while Sylvia Tilly is so monumentally incompetent at literally everything that it is a miracle she even survived into adulthood without forgetting to breathe, and that's when we're not mocking the appearance of her actress.
Well, there is a measure of anonymity factor to it. Things that are said via letter, text, or on a online are divorced from humanity. There is no human element to remind us, no face to a name, to empathize with. We can dehumanize our online opponents merely focusing on their words, rather than who they are.
Yeah, it's a little too mean spirted at this point.
Heresy! Destroy the infidel!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!111!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
and the gills would give them away, unless they have mini spacesuits now or tap into the lungs
I don't quite remember the specifics of the episode, but Memory Alpha more-or-less says the parasites cannot be removed surgically without killing the host as long as the mother creature is alive. Which would be a good enough explanation, but then... it also says the parasite will simply vacate its host and return to the mother creature if the host is incapacitated. Which is exactly what happened to Quinn and would be done before doing surgery anyway.
Hanging is too good for Terry now...
At this point, it must be waaay past time for the multitude of pitchforks and torches to be passed around.Hanging is too good for Terry now...
Silver bat'leth for monsters.
Movies and TV, Should such a divide happen again, maybe.
