I'd like to get my hands on that Earl Grey fellow and teach him a thing or two about tea leaves.

I recall reading that Farrell was the last of the main characters to be cast for the pilot, so everyone else had largely gotten to know one another and learn their lines by the time she turned up, which could account for some discomfort and trouble with the tech jargon.

Generally, yeah.

I always thought of the Cardassians as analogous to the societies in "1984" — totalitarian regime, complete devotion to order and the State, a huge military system, omnipresent secret police, children being taught a form of Occlumency, trials where the outcome is known beforehand, all actions and conversations…

Personally I loved the way the pilot dealt with that scene and Sisko's feelings toward Picard. It set the tone in so many ways; everybody loves to love Picard but Sisko sees him in a whole different way — as the man responsible for the deaths of his wife and everyone else on that starship, and many other starships.…

Re: Worf —
Yeah, I felt much the same way. I didn't watch much TNG so I can't speak to his earlier characterisation, but he becomes such an inflexible stick in the mud on DS9. I've long maintained that if Worf was a human character everyone would've hated him; the only reason he got so popular was because he was the…

It's so nice we finally have an expert here to tell us what's what.

What would you rather be — someone who's unemployed/poor who's happy and can gain fulfillment from relationships and the world around you, or someone who's financially stable but is unable to derive enjoyment or satisfaction from anything save sex, despite the overwhelming shame it brings?

"I do think there is a great film hiding in there particularly as people
have noted in his relationship with sissy, but it's own goals of making
an addiction film really hurts that."

It can't be a film about addiction because the word "addiction" is never used? Wow, if you're this unable to parse subtlety then it's no wonder you didn't like the film.

It's difficult to create a decent analogy, but as an alcoholic would you be unable to relate to an alcoholic who worked in a booze factory? Just because he doesn't have a problem attracting women doesn't mean that his addiction is any less serious.

I saw that as the entire point of casting Fassbender. It's a film about addiction, and what that addiction does to the psyche. The non-matinee idol choice would have been obvious and expected (esp., IMO, in the US, because of the very assumptions that hot people can have sex whenever they want, and the less attractive…

He takes a lot of Important Phone Calls, uses his monitor to watch the SD-6 goings-on, and plots world domination.

(Finally got around to registering so I could comment on these reviews.)

These were the episodes that got me watching Alias. I hadn't picked up on it when it first came out, but once it hit Saturday afternoon syndication I ran across it and was instantly hooked — probably all the more because I had absolutely no idea what was going on, and was so intrigued to learn. Went out and bought all…