Open Bar #38 - Picard Soars, Ant Man 3 Stumbles, Velma Gets Season 2

Drinker's Log, stardate something something point two, we're en-route to Open Bar with surprising news - Picard Season 3 is really good! Who would have thought we'd be praising a Star Trek show in 2023? Join me, Dave Cullen, Robert Meyer Burnett and MauLer as we talk all things Star Trek.
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[@oldmangimp2468]

A Scotsman, a Welshman, and an Irishman walk into a bar... . . . ... and never leave, because Gary can't open the door.

[@phonic0photon]

🤣🤣🤣

[@MrSphandor]

And stay all night whilst the yanks buy the drinks.

[@bonald8349]

Respect to Mauler for saying he isn't into Star Trek, but being chill while everyone else had a good time talking about it.

[@samwallaceart288]

Yeah he didn't need to constantly jump in and compare it to Star Wars, he just enjoyed the conversation and their viewpoints without making it about himself. MauLer is friendship goals fr

[@nicocba2007]

his last vid is about a year old, is his channel inactive or started a new one with other name?

[@samwallaceart288]

@@nicocba2007 His edited critique videos are on hold because EFAP blew up. Between the EFAPs, editing the reaction videos (all the Last of Us watch-alongs he edited himself I think), and being a regular guest in 3 other podcasts at this point, if anything he's busier than ever.

[@nicocba2007]

@@samwallaceart288 you jumped like you were his press agent and all your talk is totally useless for what I wanted to know. I just was curious as to know where to find his stuff, but I'm no longer interested

[@samwallaceart288]

@@nicocba2007 His livestream backlogs are posted up on MooLer, that's why the main MauLer channel looks empty.

[@thelastmotel]

Velma didn't GET a season 2, Velma HAD a season 2. They made one season, split it in half, and called one half Season 1, and the other half Season 2. This has been normal practice in animation for a while now, and even gets done with live-action a fair bit now.

[@nont18411]

Same as Last of Us. They already announced season 2 after the pilot ended.

[@richardmcgowan1651]

They selled Velma to the people with money as a "modern cartoon" etc etc. It was always going to get a season 2.

[@thelastmotel]

@@richardmcgowan1651 They make them like that to get a better deal from the animation studios. If they commission one series then split it, it costs them less than making the same number of episodes if those episodes are listed as two series.

[@remyd8767]

Yup. That's what I thought too Amazing how people are surprised by this

[@Soyuz2578]

It also helps that Mindy Kalings father is a executive of some sort that pulled some strings to get his imbecile daughter a vanity project

[@skyline4388]

"Why are people not watching season 3?" When you go to a restaurant and they serve you hot garbage for appetizers and the main course, you don't stick around for the dessert.

[@DoubleDowner]

I’m not going to watch it, I’m even quite annoyed that it’s supposedly good

[@trashyBagles]

@@EmptyDisc1 You're assuming they'd see the success of this and realize what they were doing wrong in the first two seasons. That's a lot to assume. Hollywood has given no reason to think they won't immediately turn back into woke shit, so that's what I'll assume.

[@trashyBagles]

@@EmptyDisc1 Yeah, I think Hollywood cannot be salvaged and something new has to replace it. If that makes me a doomer, then so be it.

[@brandonvallier4214]

Your analogy is wrong. A better one is you enter a really fun positive relationship that later down the road hits some tough spots. Then when they starts making positive changes you wanted to bring it back to how it used to be instead of being happy you just gripe about how they did bad stuff that they no longer do.

[@brandonvallier4214]

​@@EmptyDisc1 yeah, people like that don't actually have real complaints otherwise they would like when those complaints are fixed. They just like being negative. That's why when something they complain about is fixed they still hold onto the prior issues and ignore the fixes.

[@TheRantinghick]

''nobody sets out to make something bad', I dont think thats true anymore

[@jhnshep]

Seeing what comes out it reminds me of when i was a kid standing on a stool washing dishes. My grandmother said 'it takes as much effort to do something badly so wash them correctly'. The amount of effort and money that has gone into making such crap is astounding.

[@chasehedges6775]

@@jhnshep👍👍👍. Soooo true

[@schaddenkorp6977]

Has he never seen The Producers? That’s the plot of the movie!

[@unrealengine1enhanced]

yeah just ask the unreal tournament 1999 team, 469 is a total flop.

[@trev6265]

2:55:04 Mauler’s laughter here is priceless. Well done Waylon.

[@kayne8222]

This had me rolling 😅

[@liamphibia]

Even the Drinker's laugh was priceless!😂🍺

[@gbpackers5578]

So WONDERFUL having Dave Cullen and RMB on the same Trek panel…this was such a great conversation!! 😎🥃

[@chasehedges6775]

Love this content

[@scottf5791]

Just a bunch of shills

[@rexlumontad5644]

It sucks to see Cassie being made into another Riri Williams and somehow created a quantum device easily like no big deal.

[@kingovharts]

They got random characters now doing Reed Richards/Tony Stark /Hank Pym level intellectual feats. When everyone does this it makes those elite Marvel characters no longer special.

[@grandarkfang_1482]

@@kingovharts methinks that's the point.

[@grandarkfang_1482]

It also sucks to see Cassie be an absolute piece of shit to her father that saved the universe, and knows better than her what it's like to rot in a jail cell.

[@MelbourneArchviz]

@@kingovharts even Tony start built on what hsi dad made after many many years of research. 16 year old teens are building Wakandas and Quantum shit just like that. what a joke Marvel is. The worst is kids believe this stuff, I argued with my own teen daughtet about SHiri and how she invented everything, she thinks it is possible. F me!

[@Wolfman7870]

Thought I was the only one seeing that Marvel is now routinely giving Rick Sanchez level intellectual feats to 14 year old girls. Shuri was bad enough. You get the sense that one teenage girl was in charge of Wakanda's entire technological infrastructure. Then Riri's making Vibranium detectors that no one else with unfettered access to Vibranium can figure out. Now Ant man's teenage daughter is making quantum devices. Really having a hard time taking any of this even remotely seriously.

[@OsellaSquadraCorse]

I always saw Riker and Picard as Kirk - the two halves of Captain Kirk, split in two. The historian, diplomat, strategist, stoic experienced captain and the action man, fighter, womanizer, sarcastic flippant fatalist; one was distilled into Picard, the other distilled into Riker.

[@SlipdeGarcondeJour]

1:32:14 Drinker's little speech had me cheering out loud.

[@clasbin77]

This is absolutely exhilarating that even talking about Star Trek is suddenly so engrossing and satisfying. The fact that there is so much sap left in this huge branching tree that seemed to have dried out, but now it's overflowing into the commentary, is a sign of its roots reaching into something universal.

[@joshuabalog272]

JUSTICE FOR ROB!!! TOTAL VINDICATION

[@playthehighnote1122]

Doomcock in shambles

[@trev6265]

Fellas, I just don’t have the time to waste watching garbage. For the most part, I trust you to filter the sludge for the treasure. Otherwise, I’m going to spend my time rediscovering classics I haven’t seen that are genuinely good.

[@SumDumGy]

Okay, you gentlemen have convinced me. I won’t stream it because I don’t stream but, if they put season 3 on disc, I will pick it up, support it, and give it a chance. Dave put it over the edge for me with his Top Gun: Maverick talk.

[@harryanders2877]

Robert Meyer Burnett is incredibly knowledgeable, a scholar of film history indeed.

[@nont18411]

Can’t wait to see Fred Jones getting walked over and shat on all over again in Velma season 2 but somehow, he’s still the one who came out on top, just like how Marvel shat on John Walker constantly but ended up making him the only character with development.

[@liamphibia]

Imagine what Frank Welker's thinking right now about Velma.

[@buzzcrushtrendkill]

Amen. The writers obviously dont have any life experience to draw from. These productions are hiring young writers because they work cheaply to get their foot in the door. Hence the insolent, snarky high school dialogue and characters. We need adults in the writers room.

[@chasehedges6775]

I’m 21 and I despise this horrible garbage

[@chasehedges6775]

We definitely need something for adults

[@Asaba32]

I don't know if life experiences will help much either. Tom King is a terrible writer, and as far as I know, he's ex-CIA or something like that, so he must have seen some weird stuff working for an intelligence agency that he should be able to draw from. Instead, all he knows how to do is turn every male character he writes into a twisted version of himself who needs a mommy-wife to fix everything for him and take care of him.

[@uphilliceskater]

All of the adults are in Vince Gilligan's writers' room, apparently.

[@rhyscallinan9948]

@@Asaba32 I'm assuming those things he saw and did can't be shown in media due to shame or because it's a crime, the Iraqi sex boys thing the CIA knew well about coming to mind.

[@miketurner2095]

Holy hell! Computing forever! Taking me back. Great guest. 👍

[@thebenc1537]

Dave was fighting wokeness before they called it woke. I'm very happy to see him FINALLY getting the credit and respect he deserves.

[@chasehedges6775]

His review on Rise Of Skywalker was fabulous

[@thebenc1537]

@@chasehedges6775 His old tech reviews were good too. He always puts out quality even if his gear isn't the best. lol

[@salmark9080]

I didn’t know that

[@aurex8937]

A pity he's shilling for Picard season 3.

[@genmaicha.lapsang]

@@aurex8937 or maybe he just liked it? A good reviewer will give a good review to a work that stands on it's own merit.

[@r.blakehole932]

Snark. It seems to hold modern writers like the Ring holds Gollum. An inescapable presence in their minds that dominates their every thought.

[@jasonlindsay4282]

The Critical Drinker and Mr. Plinkett need to have a crossover movie review together. That would be NEXT LEVEL HILARIOUS AND EPIC!

[@D2attemp]

Cassie bitches about rent being way to high but lives with her super rich family. Do you know what would have been better than them going to a fancy restaurant to celebrate a FAKE birthday? All of them going to a soup kitchen to feed those homeless people and have Hank come with Wagyu steak that he enlargens to feed those less fortunate. That would actually complete 1/2 the Cast’s Character Arcs: Cassie puts her money where her mouth is and actually helps people, Scott is not resting on his laurels from Endgame and actually is out there making lives better again, Hank gets appreciation for saving each Homeless person $100+ on a delicious steak which is WAY better than saving $8 by ordering a small pizza.

[@Drawnartist]

Damn. That's a good point

[@kindaepicngl1671]

if ant-man 3 had competency in the writers room

[@DONALDSON51]

Great to see Dave C on the channel at last :)

[@therav2007]

This was a great discussion on the state of sci fi

[@lees8359]

I love how Robert constantly brings up how in the Trek universe everything is solved and the dumb writers of Season 1,2 made it a teen drama when Star Trek was never about that.

[@imranhq13]

finally OG Dave Cullen on the show

[@FRANK3NM3TRQ]

let this be known that this is the first open bar I watched the whole way through

[@dustman96]

"They don't imagine well". I think you really nailed something about modern society. Personally, I believe all that science fiction reading I did early in my life allowed me to become good at my work, to use my imagination to solve problems, to visualize the problem. Something I feel is lacking in my profession as whole. If you don't have a good imagination you have to rely solely on past experience to implement solutions, but with imagination you can basically run simulations in your head to solve a problem you may have never encountered before.

[@leskrapps7021]

Nice line up tonight, glad to see Dave Cullen on here with the drinker

[@metalseraphim4881]

I have watched none of STD or Piacrd I will go in watch season 3 and say my goodbyes to one of the best franchises ever made.

[@ernestomendez7419]

Same here...but I won't be watching Picard.

[@mercurio822]

Star trek enterprise is the most underrated tv series, season 3 and 4 is some of the best in star trek history.

[@metalseraphim4881]

@@mercurio822 I watched it when it aired. I liked it, but not loved it.

[@gunstarone493]

How on earth did Velma get a second season?! I guess Warner really enjoys losing money.

[@buzzcrushtrendkill]

I enjoy the schadenfreude of Warner losing on that investment.

[@styleisaweapon]

its a tax write-off that adds some sort of value, not much, but some, to their catalog, while friends and family get rich on the losses

[@thebenc1537]

Velma got a second season the same way it got a first season - knee pads and lube.

[@sanitarium_64]

It's one of those situations where they split the first season into two. Like that He-Man show by Kevin Smith. It's a fairly common strategy these days, especially on Netflix.

[@PanzerblitzRnR]

It got a second season because it was already made before the first one was released.

[@martinainscough9226]

Thank the Gods for Robert Meyer Burnett. Cheers.

[@WayStedYou]

Antman 3: We Has Kangs

[@omorto83]

Awww dave, he's one of the og culture war heros I found when first dipping a toe into KZbin 👌

[@chasehedges6775]

It’s been a terrible year for movies and TV but the Critical Drinker still gives is the best contents

[@grandmufftwerkin9037]

Drinker suffers to save us from their entertainment sins.

[@chasehedges6775]

@@grandmufftwerkin9037👍👍

[@purefoldnz3070]

except for his take on Picard which is hilarious

[@rajyavardhansingh4491]

@@purefoldnz3070 Picard season 3 is probably dope

[@luke8801]

Dude it’s only February

[@vidphile1]

great panel, great discussion. thank you.

[@emperorsean1]

Really enjoyed the stream and debate on Science Fiction

[@Grasslander]

Hey, it's Dave Cullen in a Drinker video!

[@bluebay700]

2:24:01 Is it wrong that I enjoy watching the Drinker sigh in disappointment? 😆✌ (rhetorical)

[@Reishadowen]

A Scotsman pulls out a gun, and the Irishman is like "Sorry I gotta go!" X'D

[@BoomTribeEntertainment]

The theme song for this show rules

[@faithwohlrab6477]

The discussion here is so GREAT!! Thank you to everyone who was involved!

[@alarson1799]

Kang wants to destroy the multiverse? I see this as an absolute win.

[@user-ff6kp4fi5c]

Catching up on all the historic open bars from the beginning and this is the best one so far. Great discussion on sci-fi from all the panel. Would be great to have Robert and Dave together again in the future.

[@samipersun9995]

Fantastic conversation with much insight into the meat of films and shows production.

[@kayne8222]

2:54:30 LMAO 🤣🤣🤣 Omg thank you for that one I needed that laugh stuck on overnight at work hahaha

[@northerntoe]

OK guys, let’s all stay together STOP GIVING MONEY TO PEOPLE WHO HATE YOU

[@genmaicha.lapsang]

But to Cullen's point...It doesn't matter even TopGun Maverik was produced by Paramount. What you're saying is the same as the loons who try to boycot Hogwarts Legacy. Ultimately we don't know anyone at these companies. We make a decision to buy or watch a thing based on the thing's merit.

[@northerntoe]

@@genmaicha.lapsang There is no point there is only stop giving money to people who hate you. There is no other way to say this I don’t care what other people do stop giving money to people who hate you. There is plenty of other media out there. You don’t need to watch the latest thing you don’t need to play the latest thing. STOP GIVING MONEY TO PEOPLE WHO HATE YOU

[@genmaicha.lapsang]

@@northerntoe But what I'm saying is that what you propose is not physically possible. No matter what you do you will give money to people who hate you. Maybe if you read books by authors that are dead? but that's about it. That said, we all have the right to spend our money and time the way we want.

[@northerntoe]

@@genmaicha.lapsang who cares if they try to boycott a video game that’s their right to do so what wasn’t there right was to go after other people who played it that’s why it was stupid. Who cares about geriatric Picard why are you watching Star Trek that is dead stop giving them money. They hate you.All of the cast hates you. Star Trek is dead let it be dead . Do you know what go watch it if you want go chase after the dream that is long since dead , Star Trek will never be the same. It’s the wrong world in the wrong time and you probably won’t ever see it again……. Unless you watch the Orville

[@northerntoe]

@@genmaicha.lapsang I’ll see you on the high sees with more stories then I can finish in a life time. Old , new, and forgotten……..join me friend…..it’s a good life

[@Magnificent7Seven]

@Robert Meyer Burnett, love your idea of a Star Trek Czar administering a Test you have to pass to have the privilege of writing for Star Trek!

[@wakerobin9215]

2:54:30 Juuuust leaving this here for posterity. Well played, Waylon 🤣

[@bigplayquay9891]

Robert was a great addition. He brought a lot of knowledge from a different perspective

[@johnvocatura1019]

There is nothing better than hearing you guys share ideas.Unity.

[@AlastairDeans-kr5lr]

I wasn't even gonna watch Picard 3, but now I am and I am pumped! Thank you.

[@lancebaylis3169]

Yes please to a stream with RMB talking about Generations. Those Trek streams were some of my favourites you've done and it'd be nice to see you complete the set, esp after watching Picard season 3.

[@TheGenXGeek]

I'm gonna wait for all 10 eps of S3 to be out then get P+ for one month and watch them all.

[@se7enTse7en]

"Cold this morning, captain.” “Hmm. Cold. And hard.”

[@theodenkingofbrohan]

I love how it looks like Gary is merged with the background image

[@KrisAdamsTV]

Thanks guys. I am not a Trekkie, and haven't seen S1-2. But I will jump in here. Sounds like a great show ✌

[@darthc3rb3rus22]

Really enjoyable episode gents, nice to have grown ups with differing opinions still be able to talk about their hobbies and passions with everyone stil listening and respecting the other person's opinion or their right to have one and the Mike Oxmaul part had me in hysterics. Awesome panel and guests I could gladly listen to RMB talk all night long about star trek and Sci fi and the other bloke who I haven't heard of seemed insightful and knew his stuff so thanks for the entertainment and hopefully catch the nxt one live.

[@HeavyMetalKelpie]

The vampires in blindsight are genius!!

[@jonbaxter2254]

RMB is great, could listen to him for hours.

[@demoulius1529]

After watching Drinker's reacation to Mauler talking to him about the new Antman movie I really want him to watch it. The video reaction is going to be hilarious xD

[@bennyc409]

In a way I agree that he could have been portrayed as addicted to basically anything for the purposes of the story. But the addiction to food and subsequent obesity presents an important difference to other addictions in that he never loses his clarity of mind. Most other addictions result in periods of insensibility, and that would alter the story, like in Leaving Las Vegas for instance. But he is always sadly aware of his downfall.

[@joehenry9546]

Absolutely brilliant discussion gentleman. Well done guys.

[@charlestonjew7587]

Dragging the core TNG cast back in is not enough to get me to watch Picard after checking out from the 3rd episode of the first season. I wanted a deep character study of distinguished Starfleet captain in his twilight years rediscovering himself in relatively low-stakes mysteries and intrigue from one episode to the next, not overly ambitious universe/multiverse-threatening story arcs spanning the entire season. He's too old, along with the rest of the cast, to be dealing with villains, revenge plots and big spaceship battles. TNG ended with a poker game nearly 30 years ago. The movies were garbage.

[@chasehedges6775]

I hear Season 3 is good and I’m not a HUGE ST fan but I love First Contact

[@PanzerblitzRnR]

S3 is shit and a desperate cope

[@emperorsean1]

Not all the movies were garbage star trek first contact was good. Hopefully picard s3 onwards is the sign of traditional trek returning into a more positive future.

[@BeforeMoviesSucked]

2:08:00 Does Drinker just keep an M1911 on his desk at all times??!! Respect... 🤠

[@cympimpin20]

There are people that don't?

[@kratosdisciple4637]

In the OG Star Trek the Enterprise Crew would beam down to a "Woke" planet. The two Red Shirts would get "Canceled" for laughing at the inhabitant's use of pro-nouns. Spock would convince the men that it is illogical. McCoy would scan a few "Trans" and tell them they are a Male & Female. And Kirk would bang the "Girl Boss" leader and she would realize what it is to be a Woman. The entire "Woke" issue would be resolved in approximately 45 minutes of Television.

[@CleverGirlAAH]

LOOOL I can see the red shirts being keyed and faded out in red.

[@jamescook3131]

I am also a Kratos disciple.

[@x.4132]

I started listening to you during work... I just wanna say: I love you guys! :D

[@micklaws5520]

I am rewatching Babylon 5……

[@styleisaweapon]

i've been looking for an AI upscaled copy of the series .. they did so much of the show in video :(

[@micklaws5520]

@@styleisaweapon am watching it on TUBI..free streaming service.

[@AD-on3zx]

36:00 oh boy can't wait to miss this to watch that 😀

[@bcc5701]

This was one of the most interest discussions about fiction and what it means as an expression of the human condition and experience

[@hermeticinstrumentalist6804]

Thank you for the banter.

[@jamesowens7148]

Ok, Dave Cullen is something new.

[@randallwood8537]

Thank you, Terry! This is, really, a great attempt to right the ship! I am one that watched all the Kurtzman trek since I was starved for anything, but all of you are right about Modern Star Trek. This includes Picard Season 3. Anyonw who loves legacy Trek will not be completely fulfilled, but they will be happy to see what Terry is doing now. Especially at the end of Eposide 2, when Picard becomes PICARD!

[@ericelliott6654]

The best way to send a message to Paramount is to wait until Picard S3 is available to purchase somewhere else and then buy it. Pay for the good stuff, and don't subscribe to services that primarily produce crap.

[@lliamthrumble]

Or sail tge high seas and leave good reviews on just season 3 wherever you can.

[@henryblake2035]

They keep going back to Star Wars and Star Trek and Firefly lore is just sitting there....

[@cympimpin20]

I am curious what Razorfist will think about season 3.

[@kinganimal9631]

This is one of the best panels I've seen from the drinker. Great work. Would love to see voxis get involved again tho 😀

[@MrSuckeragi]

"Salute of the Jugger", AKA "Blood of Heroes" was awesome, watched it on VHS way back, David Cullen hasn't covered it yet - that would be amazing!

[@scottjoseph9578]

These are fine gentlemen discussing films in a delightful manner.

[@christiangagnere5177]

hahahah xD seeing Gary leave the chat beacause he has to see ant-man because of .... "I juste want to talk about ST with you guys" I'm sorry for you ^^

[@elihub123]

Outlaw Josie Wales “man’s gotta know etc…” line

[@ottomattix86]

Velma gets season 2 made me turn head as I was putting phone down to listen. WHAT IN GOD'S FUCK

[@chasehedges6775]

The world we live in…

[@brentchesson2179]

Clownfish TV covered this. They said it was probably one series order split into two seasons. So it probably wasn't a renewal and just the rest of the already ordered episodes coming out.

[@thelastmotel]

Velma didn't GET a season 2, Velma HAD a season 2. They made one season, split it in half, and called one half Season 1, and the other half Season 2. This has been normal practice in animation for a while now, and even gets done with live-action a fair bit now.

[@doggodproductions2259]

​@@thelastmotel Same thing they did with Harley Quinn (at least for it's first 2 seasons back in the days of the "DC Universe" app), but at least that show is actually comedy. I'm pretty sure it's a forgone conclusion that Velma will certainly not get a 3rd season. That much we can be relieved about (I hope).

[@hirrfeldmarschal3684]

To Robert, the first time I ever watched Star Trek The Next Generation, was during Rosh Hashonah(1987), the Jewish New Year. Also, it was recorded on my JVC VCR on a 2-hour VHS cassette tape. Too bad I didn't correctly adjust the recording timer. R.I.P. Gene Rodenberry.

[@Lovicide]

lets be real. Only reason Velma is getting a second season is because HBO doesn't want the writers/creators of the show to bash and call them out for "letting trolls win". It's the same with She-Hulk. I guarantee you, though, Velma is getting cancelled after season 2 inevitably fails. I'm guessing She-Hulk will be cancelled as well, but we'll see.

[@dreioo8759]

I'm so happy that Star Trek has a good modern season! I truly hope they learn at least some lessons from it and improve the rest of the shows.

[@promnightdumpsterbaby9553]

The part where they are talking about modok and Drinker be like "mauler......no....." lol

[@JSPena]

2:50:13 I picked June 1st because that’s when Johnny Depp won the trial last year.

[@name-vi6fs]

Dave Cullen on The Drinker.... YES!

[@janfwagner]

Dear Critical Drinker, your reviews and roundtables are excellent and very addictive. I have a hopefully pertinent question: Why Jack Daniels and not Scotch? My personal favourite: 16-year Laguvulin

[@thundercron77]

Apparently June 1 was when several Pirates of the Caribbean books were published.

[@JoelLeonhart]

Yey Dave Cullen awesome

[@ProcyonAlpha]

Can I watch season 3 of picard only?

[@Fentony]

Top team, gutted I missed it live.

[@BrianGlassEOD]

Really great discussion on science fiction on this one.

[@jeremythomas2316]

Star trek 3 is the first star trek movie I can remember as well. My parents had taped it from a rental store and I was home a lot when I was a kid

[@h-dawg969]

With Picard 3 being good, we need to make a lot of noise, to make it known to the studios that these beloved franchises are not beyond redemption if they just get a writer who actually respects, loves and understands the thing to which they are working on.

[@erichtomanek4739]

Star Trek should be named Star Trick. So many times we were tricked into hoping against hope that we would get an objectively good show. So many times disappointed.

[@chasehedges6775]

The movies are hit and miss as well. So far, we have yet to surpass the heights of Wrath Of Khan or First Contact.

[@CleverGirlAAH]

I wont believe any hype for this season until credits roll on the last episode...

[@austinbecker2976]

ant man 3 just sounds like honey who shrunk the kids with how they get sent to the quantum realm

[@Magnificent7Seven]

A book that came to mind when you were listing classics was A Canticle for Leibowitz (check spelling).

[@AKATenn]

the problem with supersonic is air creates friction, friction creates heat, so you need special materials to make the planes, and breaking the speed of sound creates loud noises, so they can't fly over land... also it uses a lot more fuel... darn physics getting in the way of cool ideas...