That's my favorite line in that speech! 

There's actually a reference to him in the uncut text — the scene where Aumerle shows up to plead for his life begins with Henry complaining about his "unthrift son" — but that gets cut frequently in standalone productions (or, I guess, productions that want to imply a lot of time between R2 and 1H4, but I've never…

Yeah, I was really surprised by that Hiddleston interview, because it read to me in much the same way it did to you. Which is fine — I mean, Hal is a cunning manipulator, after all, and I kind of prefer that take on the role in a lot of ways! But it's weird to see it's at odds with what Hiddleston was actually trying…

But for the life of me I can’t figure out what was so enrapturing about his performance that netted him a BAFTA last year

That's the one. Don't fuck with Bugs Bunny.

But they had such cool line assignments in this episode — prophet!Weyoun saying "We are of Bajor" and prophet!Dukat being the one to pronounce judgment on Sisko…

Best ship ever.

Is goo-fuckin' going to be the new holodeck jizz mopping?

It's like King Lear!

@avclub-0635aab06cd18b6b3f48dba92774c912:disqus There are not enough likes in the world.

@avclub-0c3e626d1a287cdc48c77515c8dcc243:disqus  Sex Candle? I thought they closed that place down…

I especially like the implication that Weyoun has filled up several sets of quarters with random crap.

@avclub-095543c425d38265455b460a8b71ee8f:disqus Non Angli, sed Angeli!

"Waltz" is a really good episode on its own, but it's really irritating how it ends (as does pretty much every future appearance of Dukat) with the show going all "Now, remember, the main point of this episode, in case you didn't notice, is DUKAT IS EVIL."

Bad DS9 is pretty much categorically worse than bad Voyager or Enterprise in my opinion, because on DS9 I care about the characters and on Voyager and Enterprise I don't. So it's much harder to watch them do profoundly embarrassing things.

Well, it is if it disparages the boot!

You're welcome! My dissertation was on Elizabethan depictions of Richard II, so one of the nice things about this production airing is that I get some use out of the damn thing for once. ;)

Yeah, he's in Westminster Abbey. Henry IV initially had him buried at King's Langley, but Henry V had him reinterred at Westminster in the tomb he'd had built when his first wife died (Shakespeare actually refers to this in Henry V).

St. Sebastian is also something of a gay icon — this production, of course, plays that up pretty strongly…

Also, it was actually more-or-less illegal to depict members of the ruling dynasty onstage in Shakespeare's day — this is why Richmond isn't much of a character in Richard III and why Shakespeare's only extended look at a Tudor monarch was written ten years after the death of Elizabeth.