I think it's also there to emphasize how special *Rory* is. That is, when you have a child that's gifted in something, you want to get them into the right program for that (this from a mom trying to get her kid into a STEM magnet school). Rory's gifted-ness in literature/writing/journalism is sort of generalized in…

Me too, the dynamic with me and my parents is very similar to Lorelai and her parents. The thing this show did for me was to see things from their point of view, as the characters of Richard and Emily become well-developed.

@Kumagoro:disqus *applause*

My thought is, it's like the commenter said upthread somewhere, they can't have it both ways. Either she's an evil witch who kidnapped a boy and once revealed, she rightfully loses her "son" and he goes back to the loving arms of his real family— OR, she's a modern woman who is struggling to rebuild a bond with her…

@foley:disqus And they flew Ajira Airlines! :)

I cut scripts as a paying job, for $50 I'll cut your Shakespeare play down to whatever you'd like. (My favorite was the Merry Wives done as a 50s sitcom, I actually studied sitcom structure and shaped it around that as best I could.) I'm currently working on a cutting of Richard III, which has 41 characters, for…

I was trying to remember how it happened, I think me and the roommate decided we were going to have to break up with the others and be together, and we sat them down to tell them as gently as possible, when it turned out they were quite relieved because they liked each other too. So we were pretty surprised it all…

“You see, in this world, there is one awful thing, and that is that everyone has his reasons.” — Jean Renoir
This is one of my favorite quotes of all time. I think that not making Leyton be corrupt in the way Zack described is what makes it darker.

Reminds me of a weird situation I had in college, where I started dating one roommate because I met him first. But then the other roommate and I started to like each other, and his new girlfriend and my boyfriend liked each other. So we all sat down and talked about it one night, and decided to switch. And we all hung…

They do attempt to establish early on that Kira gets creeped out at the idea of dating anyone who isn't Bajoran. Among a few other references, she has girl talk about this with Dax, who likes to date all kinds of interesting people, including the guy with the clear skull. This is easy to miss, because, ew, clear…

I will! :)

Plus she was reading off her smart phone, I figured it was Wikipedia and it was just wrong.

In fact, finding plot holes in the holoprogram makes it seem even MORE realistic as portrayal of a piece of entertainment being consumed, not less. :)

@avclub-cb0e59b8f769a8698b9f7154dd8809b5:disqus re: holo"novels"… First of all, you're right. :) But… I'm a nerd, so… Without taking the time to look it up, I sort of got the idea that there were different holo-things. So a holo-"novel" would be more tied to the story, like a novel— you can't change the story, you can…

@drdarke:disqus I'm not sure it was this well-thought-out (it IS Voyager) but Paris used to take his other dates there when he was a "playa"— that is, he took the Delaney sisters there (as they sort of stood in for the idea of him dating around and not caring much about the girls he dated). His relationship with…

Though I agree "traitor" isn't applicable, I think in this case Odo's use of the term "my people" is much more personal, in that Odo so fantasized over and longed to find "his people" for so long. Having found them, they are both more than he hoped (The Great Link, etc.), and a searing disappointment (bringing war to…

@avclub-40904cf5a179d97beb9f7f3f8c02e080:disqus And in that sense, it works as Gene-Trek. I've said it before, but the idea of making the humans not have issues and putting all the issues (race, gender, war and peace, etc.) on the aliens for the humans to react to is not a bad principle just for storytelling purposes.…

@Chico_McDirk:disqus I think the point was it made a little forcefield just off the floor, between your feet and the floor, that functioned something like a treadmill, to keep you in the right place despite the walking.

They sometimes save before exiting (can't think when, but I'm sure I recall someone being called away from their holodeck time and saying, "Computer, save program and exit") but it doesn't seem to autosave.

SPOILERS I think you got it right, since we don't see him again, iirc, so she cuts ties and moves on, as she should. It's a pretty common rite of passage with drama teachers, it seems to me, and I was glad they included it (without making a huge deal out of it).