This has been a problem for far, far, longer than you think. The silver age definitely had it, the golden age probably did, and I wouldn’t be surprised if it cropped up in the proto-superhero stories, like Zorro. It’s a consequence of having a long-form story where the narrative’s status quo isn’t allowed to meaningfully change and characters either aren’t allowed to die or aren’t allowed to stay dead. Recurring antagonists also can have much richer characterization and more complex relationships with the protagonists, which makes writing stories about them more appealing the more often they appear.

The usual trajectory for a new superhero or new incarnation of an existing superhero is to start off with street-level problems, then get a nemesis that has strong ties to those street level problems, then have the dynamic between the two grow in prominence to eclipse all other parts of the plot. The Joker, for instance, always starts off as either a mob boss with a gimmick or a serial killer with a gimmick, not far removed from the mundane crime Batman always starts with, but always winds up with a fixation on Batman and spawns stories designed as some commentary on Batman’s no-killing rule. Again and again and again, dozens of times over the decades.

Why? Because the dynamic between the two characters tends to be fascinating and results in audience engagement.

The Tower is bad, but The Devil may be worse. Once you know what Yorinobu is up to, the one ending where he’s stopped before he can pull it off is pretty bad.

Lightfall sunsetted everything I was using that wasn’t an exotic. Completely destroyed my build.

so long as you’re in immediate danger.

*not in immediate danger

Kane Westwood lives in death!

Worse. The network went under and they finished up the show with the remaining budget, cramming the front half of what was supposed to be season 5 into season 4. They didn’t get picked up by TNT until after they filmed the series finale. After unexpectedly getting renewed, they filmed a new season 4 finale and pushed the already filmed finale back to the end of season 5. And JMS had to scramble to fill content now that half of it had already been used.

Going to be completely honest, Dexter isn’t worth finishing. The first few seasons are fun, but the show struggles to actually go anywhere until the final season, at which point it goes straight into a ditch. I think I lost any lingering respect for the show around season 6 and kept watching due to sunk cost fallacy and nostalgia for the first couple seasons. I haven’t watched the spinoffs, but the only one that’s finished so far apparently followed the same trajectory over much fewer episodes.

The first Klingon BoP in the movie was originally a stolen Romulan prototype in an earlier draft.

Babylon 5 is literally the only show I can think of with full length seasons and seasons that don’t have episodes wasted on filler, and that really only applies to seasons 3 and 4, when the showrunner personally wrote every single script. He also wrote all of season 5, but there were production issues that messed with the pacing of the front half. The stress of writing 22 cohesive and relevant episodes every year was also getting to him. Somewhere in the 10-14 per year range feels like the sweet spot to me.

That said, a season needs to come out each year, not every other year. When there’s too much time between seasons, the audience and the writers start losing track of how little time has passed in-universe and then characters start getting over things oddly fast.

To be fair, I don’t think the penguins recognize anyone’s sovereignty.

Intimidation rolls work, too.

In particular, it’s a very East Coast thing. While we have the mom-and-pop pizzerias on the West Coast, there aren’t styles of pizza named for West Coast cities and we just don’t have that pizza rivalry that the other coast has. There’s California-style pizza, but that’s named for a state rather than a city, and as soon as you leave California it’s easier to find almost any other kind of pizza.

Why kill them? Why not just have an option to donate your body to necromancy?

Picard and Troi only had cosmetic surgery to look Romulan. One papercut would have outed them. The SNW crew were made fully Vulcan.

The transformation was also basically space magic since it was based on whatever the Kerkohvians did to turn Spock fully human. And it’s mentioned that it’s influenced by his experiences rather than just straight biology. They took on the aspects that Spock associates with Vulcans, which includes racism, hubris, and flawed logic.

It’s not the greatest, but it is internally consistent.

The states of New Mexico, Arizona, Nevada, Utah, California, Texas, and parts of Colorado all used to be part of Mexico.

I bought it heavily discounted and knowing it got bad reviews and still felt like I got ripped off. The reviews I read did not do justice to just how bad the shooting feels and how terrible the level design is.

He was symbolically cast- uh, in a bad light.

The one that guest stars Majel Barrett-Roddenberry, of course.

I was very pleasantly surprised at how faithfully they recreated the look and feel of the TOS Enterprise’s interior while updating it to modern production values. White with red accents was basically Starfleet’s entire thing in TOS.

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