If "Vitas Mortis" counts as a sub-par episode, I'm going to enjoy this season.

Go on like that and you'll summon cousin McLurkerson

Well hung and snow-white tan

On a tangentially related note, Gillian Anderson is currently starring in a BBC police drama set in Northern Ireland.

THE A.V. CLUB
Listless, unresponsive, just went through the minimum motions and only wanted to do missionary

Great comment/name symmetry going on there!

We're all indigenous to somewhere @avclub-bd847fd835b2c6025557898b6aff7b2d:disqus , but I get your point.

I'd seen significant amounts of DS9 from TV broadcast, though I hadn't watched it straight through until these reviews started. I still haven't seen every episode yet, but generally know what happens.

Well you say that @avclub-bd847fd835b2c6025557898b6aff7b2d:disqus , but we're not the ones who greet new people by waving open gun-ports in their faces as "a sign of respect" (seriously, who does that?) then get all huffy and genocidal when misunderstandings inevitably ensue.

This is why I like this place. I learn things.

@avclub-ccc525184d694d883090fca453c06718:disqus 
Probably. We'll also find time to criticise the show's lack of subtlety too.

I'll check those out.

Just trying to be slightly oblique with character names.

Make that six if

@avclub-945ba977c27d196cdeaf6cbe4ff682f4:disqus 
Or, for that matter, doing The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.
(Though to be fair, at least all the original authors for those characters had shuffled off the mortal coil).

Compare and contrast with the way in which, say, Joss Whedon dealt with limitations imposed on him.

And no, I'm not including

Four major characters to get the boot?

Totes

Wish granted.