Welcome to fine tuning with Drew Taylor, your one-stop shop when it comes to animation news and commentary.

I'm Drew's co-host, entertainment writer Jim Hill, and he and I recording the show on Friday, August 26th, 2022.

Did you catch the first episode of Season 3 of Star Trek Lower Dex last night?

I did, I, you know, it's been fun to watch that, and Beavis and Butthead back to back at us.

Have you started watching the new episodes yet?

I have not, and that might have helped.

After the big set up for last season, you know, the whole Captain Freeman set up for the structure of the Packlit Planet and Mariner,

and her friends are gonna have to scour the universe to prove that the captain didn't do it.

And I thought, okay, they're setting up a whole season-long adventure, and no.

They wrap it all up in the first episode, which I kind of found disappointing.

Took me wrong, it was fun to hear James Cromwell again as Zephyr and Cocklin.

Yeah, that was great.

That was, but I was really kind of looking forward to this epic story playing out.

And now it's back to square one, right?

Yeah, I mean, I just got in the mail literally right before we started recording.

Paramount sent me the new 4K set of the original six movies.

So I'm very excited to go back and revisit some of those earlier Trek adventures.

Well, speaking of the Trek movie, you saw the news today about Matt Checkman walking away from the Paramount theatrical, right?

Yeah, it was supposed to be the fourth Kelvin timeline movies, right?

Yeah, but Marvel Studios must have been thrilled that Paramount inadvertently confirmed a very big piece of Marvel Studios news by saying that he was unavailable.

That's right. The Fantastic Four film.

So, yeah, this new Stark movie is still supposed to come out December 22nd of next year.

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