The final season was bizarre. My favorite power women, Bette, Gigi and Dani, disappeared halfway and somehow Rosie O'Donnell became the lead.

This is what I'm bummed about. We patiently sat through that entire Donald Faison storyline knowing it was leading to Tasha only to get two scenes of her in the end.

Halt and Catch Fire

I watched for Sarah Snook and Kingsley Ben-Adir and was pissed to find out it was an anthology. Never even started episode 2

Apple has a diversified business model where most of their money is coming from selling hardware and the app store. That plus their cash on hand probably means Apple+ can thrive without subscriber or advertising pressures. Same with Amazon and to a lesser extent D+.

This is the answer. Nielsen ratings are no longer reflecting a show's true popularity because people under 50 no longer watch traditional TV. This became apparent when we learned The CW's median age of viewership is 58

Yes but how many times did Picard confide in Data? He mostly confided in Troi, Beverly and Riker. So it was bizarre to me for him in the Picard finale to be like "I've never gotten over your loss my dearest friend"

A stronger way to hang that plot point would've been for Picard to be like "As your captain I've helped shepherd you on your journey to be more human, there's not a more human experience than death I'll be here for you." But they retconned a closeness these two characters never mutually shared on screen before

Right and TNG both the series and movies never showed a relationship with the two of them beyond captain/crewman. Data had a stronger friendship with Geordi, Troi and Worf

The new Star Trek series has a bunch of silly retcons (Burnham is Spock's sister, Picard and Data were best friends, etc.) but the best ones are from Strange New Worlds, in particular Pike being shown his future and aware that he'll someday be horribly injured in an accident.

The other was giving Spock and T'Pring a full romantic relationship. In TOS, she was Spock's wife and the crew had no idea but on SNW it's a public long distance relationship and it adds a lot to the series.

I'm trying to think of something the show actually retconned from the prequels. I think it just did a great job filling in the gaps between movies, better contextualizing the impact of major events.

Making O'Neill a wisecracker was a good retcon. They explained in show that he was dealing with grief over his son. I always felt like the one thing that would've elevated Stargate the movie would have been a funnier Kurt Russell performance, like his Big Trouble or Tango and Cash roles

I tried but yeah the multi cam laugh track format was too much for me, made me realize I haven't watched a comedy with a laugh track since HIMYM