I think both things can be true to be honest.

It’s a shame, but I can also understand why - council meetings and other open events are increasingly security risks, full of wingnut conspiracy theorists.

But, the way we designed the transformation of Sam, we called it sort of colloquially in the writers room, “Sam 1.0” and “Sam 2.0.” Sam 1.0 was just a couple months old and was a baby in so many different ways. And the contrast that you start to see in episodes 9 and episode 10, but in a big way in season 2, is that Sam 2.0, while she does carry the memories of Sam 1.0, she really is a totally different person. She feels things that Sam 1.0 never felt.

I’m very curious to see how this plays out.

That is helpful - setting a series after King of the Monsters would be…expensive.

While it seems unlikely that Brie Larson and Tom Hiddleston will reprise their roles as Mason Weaver and James Conrad, Monarch can mine plenty of unexplored story between the isolated events on Skull Island and the eventual world-changing events of Godzilla in 2014.

Seems like a good candidate for the “Cold War thriller”?

it is weird that they did not introduce a trained psychiatrist/counselor

Ake did say the cadets had been attending counselling sessions, and that they weren’t working (actually, I think she said that they “weren’t enough”).

Maybe they could have included a scene or a montage of those ineffective settings - IIRC, the most comparable “classic” episodes, “Family” and “It’s Only A Paper Moon” showed them, however briefly.

It’s wild to think that this SFA season finished filming a year ago, and was written even earlier than that.

Yeah, I’m not sure it quite worked in this one - it seemed about as well thought-out as Thanos’ plan in the MCU - but it’s interesting ground to cover.

just cool af stylistic vision.

Yeah, this can’t be emphasized enough. It’s just fun.

True, I did forget the Must Reply To Everything in the Hot Feed rule.

Skull Island has had a lot of negativity from longtime fans.

I can see that - I’m a big fan of the 1933 film, and enjoyed the 1976 and 2005 versions well enough. But I didn’t have any expectations that this movie would bear any resemblance to those. Taken as its own thing, I thought it was fun. And if you have to build a Cinematic Universe, you’re going to need some kind of point of origin for all of these monsters.

Wandering the internet to loudly declare your disinterest in things?

Besides time-consuming (it’s a big Fediverse, so you must not get a lot of sleep)…yeah, kind of toxic.

Hey look, it’s the guy from the article!

Understandably so.

Here’s my question: is it better to boycott the company outright, or to show them that you are willing to pay for progressive content?

I don’t have an answer. I think you can make a good argument for either.

Confident is the word that comes to mind after watching this premiere.

This community has convinced me to start delving in to all of this stuff, but I’m nowhere near this current season, but I just wanted to say that I love this.

You can really tell when a show knows what it’s trying to be, and executes it.

If they downvote, it means you’re an unappreciated genius.

A second watchthrough is on my to-do list this weekend, there’s always something I missed the first go-around…

What you said doesn’t make a whole lot of sense, so I’ll grant you that.

Sam wasn’t present for the theatre classes that are being criticized here, so I’m not sure what the relevance is.

It’s isn’t science-fiction at all, it’s drama set in a techno-fantasy world.

This, however, is hot nonsense.

That’s the perfect scenario for science-fiction.

I don’t agree at all - it sounds rather soulless to me, stripping the humanity from the story.

I would find some sort of magical “mental health technology” not only unrealistic, but rather insulting.