Reynold's glee seemed like a terrible move. We have a shuffle next week, and he has established himself with all the fans as that one douche who laughed through what would have been seriously fucked up if you were really there and not watching it on TV.

I agree completely. This is especially true of Arrested Development which loved to extend jokes over multiple episodes. It would be hard to maintain its pacing for more than half an hour too. If anyone actually wants more after this season on Netflix, the best solution would be another season, not a movie.

You are completely right. Of course, some of that comes from the superior characterization.

@avclub-807910032187e48ab8ae5e3199c4baa1:disqus I think that is why I am surprised some people hate it so much. This show has a tenuous grasp on reality at best, so I can't get too upset when it tilts toward fantasy.

Farscape has better cussing because profanity is best applied with humor. BSG is completely devoid of humor.

I don't consider Babylon 5 and Farscape to be similar enough to rank. I don't really like DS9, and I never saw Lexx

I don't find it that good, but I don't really get what makes it so notoriously bad. I've only ever seen it once though. I haven't gone ahead on the re-watch. On the original viewing, it just registered as kind of meh. I'm curious to see that I think next time.

"That Old Black Magic" is a divisive episode, but @avclub-001d507e80c4e4d2ce4ba0a5590f8313:disqus is right about its importance. It's not one you can skip.

Both this and Star Trek are mainly made up of Planet/Anomaly of the Week episodes. What sets Farscape apart is that all the characters have such different drives and personalities that you get a much more interesting range of reactions from the crew. It's not just a matter of how they individually act, but in who sees…

This is only my second time ever watching, and I had the exact same thing as far as remembering the two episodes.

Yeah, the show does get consistently better over the first half of the season.

It would have been even more hilarious if he had done it, just to watch one of the clones take a look at his missing fingertip and adjust his own. I can understand why they didn't go that way though.

I agree with @avclub-bbb04f2a70775131fa0397bbdb4c03de:disqus too. I found the level of darkness implausible on BSG. It put me off finishing it. It gave the show a soap opera vibe where drama meant serious faces all time. Good drama, from Shakepeare to Breaking Bad has a lot of humor mixed with the pathos.

You didn't miss much. It was the only episode I saw last year. They realized that rather than write a plot that week, they could just do a lazy retelling of Exit Through the Giftshop, throw in a Shepard Fairey guest spot and call it a parody, Of course, Exit Through the Giftshop was already satirical on a level that…

I always figured they rejected him because he was too ethnic.

Seriously? Because the trailer is dubbed in German, you are not interested in seeing the movie? That's kind of pathetic.

I went a couple of year without TV in the 90s and had a similar response. It wasn't really irritation in my case, but everything on TV felt like one of those Mr. Show sketches that isn't quite funny, but is just very strange.

It really does creep up on you during season one. I was watching it purely on the faith of the person that recommended it to me at for while, and somewhere in the middle that I can't quite identify I began loving it, It becomes every bit as funny as Star Trek is humorless.

@avclub-a5fdfa672284da6bf4f4326e2b3698bd:disqus Yeah. Back-to-back was what I meant to say. Thanks for pointing that out.

Yes, I have a special hatred for people who think "nice" is simply about smiling and being polite while you stab people in the back. It is all too common.