One of the show's only real missteps is the way they wrote out the Earth King. I recognize that his role was done, and that as a kid's show they couldn't easily kill the guy. But couldn't they have come up with something better than having him randomly decide to wander the land with his bear, right after the fall of…

Yeah, DS9 never really developed a cohesive Trill mythos, but that's fine. Instead, what we got was an interesting, deep, personal mythos for the character of Dax herself, as we continually learn about the prior hosts, their histories, and their issues. The symbiote was a clever plot device for Trek to deal with the…

Yeah, Curzon only ever made a single, brief, dialogue-free cameo in the pilot. So it's remarkable how, through seven seasons of allusions and anecdotes, they were able to create a character so concrete, fleshed-out, and full of personality that I feel like I'd immediately recognize him if I saw him, based entirely on…

Where were you last week? When you didn't show up, I got worried.

"I’m starting to have bad feelings about Terry Farrell’s performance. What I initially took for confidence and detachment (appropriate for a character who had survived, at least in some fashion, for a very long time) is starting to seem like simple blankness."

I'd like to see O'Brien and Tosk strip to their skivvies and smear each other with decon gel in a direct recreation of that stupid, stupid scene.

He's not above trumping up some charges for the sake of confining a person, either, if it's toward a defensibly just end. Odo probably learned a lot of dirty tricks while enforcing security for the Cardassians.

“…and the hegemonic nature of the Federation is bound to make anyone with a strong sense of national (planetary?) identity skittish.”

@avclub-b9a25e422ba96f7572089a00b838c3f8:disqus : I'm gay, so I often wondered how this scenario would play out for me. Sperm donation makes the most sense. This way I can save the world with my legions of gaybies.

1) Vaughan's major flaw as a writer (at least at the time he was writing Y—I haven't read much of his stuff since then) is that he too often over-explained his sly cultural and literary references, rather than rely on the reader to be smart enough to puzzle them out or look them up. It felt too much like he was…

I read it issue to issue over the entire run, and didn't mind. The series moved in (roughly) real time, so I appreciated being able to see the gradual growth of the characters naturally occur over the five year story.

Thirded, though I think Guerra is a superior artist to Dillon. She conveys much better nuance in her characters' design, expressions, and body language. Dillon too often feels like he's phoning it in.

The best explanation we got wasn't so much supernatural as pseudoscientific: the morphic field connecting all life on earth, which somehow spontaneously "decided" that men were unnecessary once cloning had been successfully accomplished. If morphic fields operate like other energy fields, then the "gendercide" most…

"Five Card Stud, nothing wild. And the sky's the limit."

Thank you for your wonderful work.

This reads less like a primer than like an obituary. I'm left feeling like I've just said goodbye to newspaper comics, rather than been introduced to them.

It's a post-apocalyptic setting with mutant crossbreeds, so maybe that's sci-fi enough?

"He’s the Nate Silver of The West Wing, in that he comes up with formulas to tabulate things that shouldn’t ever be tabulated by formulas, like how people feel about a person and whatnot."
This statement strikes me as unfair for a couple of reasons. It's a bit brutal to compare anyone to the sublimely slimy Bruno…

Kind of a mods vs. rockers thing.

Mao's fate
I know it's unclear, but I think C.C. killed Mao, rather than merely drugging him.