Not sure how to do this with Kinja, but...

It’s episodes like this one that make me realize how much I’m going to miss this show; the nearest example I match it to is Mad Men - it’s layered with little explaining or recapping during the episode itself, and it trusts that the people watching it are functional adults.

Humor. It is a difficult concept.

When it comes to this episode, I kept thinking about the DS9 episode “Equilibrium”, where it’s discovered more members of the Trill can be joined than their Symbiosis Commission lets on, which had allowed the Dax symbiont to be placed in a host who was mentally disturbed.

Quark? Nah, let’s forget that.

Um, Moore was only on Voyager for a few weeks in the first season. He said it wasn’t the gritty show that he was sold on. If Voyager had atrocities, Moore wasn’t responsible for them.

While everyone’s tortures were interesting - except Eleanor’s, who’s uckily saddled with a meathead who goes to the gym at the drop of a shirt - Tahani’s made me cackle with glee. Short soul mate? Small house? Discovering why Crocs have holes? Absolute perfection. I could see a whole episode of her trying to deal with…

And I thought I was a smartie for figuring it out. Oh, well.

The T-2s broke apart as well. The Pendleton Disaster (portrayed in the movie The Finest Hours) took place off of Cape Cod in 1953, when two T-2s broke apart within hours, and only one, Fort Mercer, could radio for help and got the lion’s share of the rescue force, as Pendleton did its best to keep afloat despite…

I finally saw this after a trip to Colorado and losing power during Irma, and while it was fun it wasn’t extraordinary. I give pilots a lot of leeway because most of the time they just aren’t very good. The Orville was… okay with occasional flashes of better than expected.

If you can, watch the first six episodes of each (I don’t know if SyFy has put them on their website) then make a decision. Dark Matter seemed to lurch around but eventually (probably too late) solidified and became a modern-day Blake’s 7. Killjoys was at least fun from the beginning.

Remember, this is a channel where the greatest ratings are in wrestling and which shows fantasy movies such as Gladiator, Braveheart, and Need For Speed.

I hadn’t heard about Dark Matter being cancelled until now. It was a good show and ended on a nice cliffhanger, but it also seemed to bounce around with little direction until this season. I did like how just about everyone was expendable, or at least wasn’t guaranteed to survive or stay on the ship. Maybe we’ll get a…

I saw an online ad today that began “Trump’s On A Roll”.

One I’d love to find is Ladybug, Ladybug, a Frank Perry film from 1963. Isolated communities would have a war alert system consisting of colored lights, and when the red light goes off at a country school, everyone’s on edge thinking the nukes are minutes away. It’s more psychological than plot-based, but it always…

Yes, Testament is worth it. Jane Alexander is awesome in every minute of it, but it will make you weep.

Same, 19 in 1983, and it was the complete catastrophic fall of civilization that would last for centuries that scared me. The above-mentioned talk by the FEMA guy who tells the farmers to scrape off the topsoil, and the farmers’ responses (“HOW?!?!”) just sold how fucked we would be.

Add Without Warning (not nukes, but aliens attempting first contact) and you’ve got the mother of all depressing matinees.

Special Bulletin scared the crap out of me; I was watching it along during an out-of-town trip in a mediocre hotel, which did not help my mood any for the next few days.

Nothing tops last year’s scene where she’s defining the meaning of Shonen Knife to Gordon’s date. No wonder we haven’t seen the date so far.