I could swear a contestant disappeared in between the two hours. Since the title is Top 19 Revealed/Compete, and there were two potentials left, I counted the pack and there were 18. So it seemed like Luca was done. They let him in and there are 20. Then when the group gathered a few minutes later at the start of hour…

American Dad?

But there are still three other votes …

Part of me things the confusing structural elements were designed so that the season could be watched in any order. So if you watched a later episode first and missed something from an earlier episode when you saw the earlier episode it would just seem like a flashback. And by the end everything would snap into place…

I thought the setup whole Fantastic Four storyline was one of the funniest things of the season, if only because the creation of a crappy FF movie to hold onto the rights actually happened 20 years ago. Then for the narration to describe them quickly finding a cast, with a shot of the caterers, nailed it.

@avclub-eb058ced22520c3a8f4e4a6e2fb16403:disqus  Heck, Voyager basically reduced the holodeck to an elaborate vibrator for Capt. Janeway.

What struck me about A Simple Investigation the first time I saw it was that this was an episode they should have done a few months earlier, when Odo was still a solid. Odo experiencing sex as an actual humanoid I think would have enhanced his appreciation for his experiences to come, instead of seeming more like an…

I'm just going to assume it's more a question of Odo guessing who he thinks the killer is just because that's how his mind works. He doesn't seem the type to appreciate the element of fiction that involves watching events play out and seeing how they meet your expectations.

Yeah, I wonder how much Bashir saw how the computer plugged his friends into those villain roles and just decided to go with it.

Yeah, that was an awesome scene. But plot-wise there's no way they can take that guy with them.

Defiant coming out of warp to tractor beam that changeling asshole away from the star: fucking awesome.

>>“Never turn your back on a Breen.” Probably because they look like Boba Fett.

I think it's less about where they are and more about Kate focusing more on her job. It does raise a good question that the characters haven't really addressed yet, in how much of their relationship is based on them working together?

Given all the basic mistakes in the recap of what he did see I'm surprised he bothered with it at all.

The bit with Pete's mom telling him RFK got shot was pretty funny, and I think a nice counterpoint to the way the show handled the MLK shooting. There it was so dominant over the events of the episode, and even Pete was emotionally shaken up by it.

When Hook scratched out the P&S, and did it with a Z, and then they played vaguely Spanish music, I can't be the only one thinking Zorro there.

It's well established that the Bashir as changeling story wasn't considered until this episode, they just used the uniform switch as a convenient marker to indicate when the switch would have occurred. They weren't writing the earlier episodes thinking Bashir was a changeling.

I know what Ron Moore said, and I'm not disagreeing with him. I'm just saying that there's a lot of people who want to ignore that because they think it doesn't make sense for the Changeling to do some of the things he does in the episodes he was supposedly acting as Bashir, so they want to come up with an alternative…

Well, for those of you who prefer the Bashir was switched with a Changeling after Rapture theory, and need an explanation for the uniform, here's one:

That scene never really made sense to me.