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Tales to Enrage
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I saw that too, but it looks like that (and a typo in the Suspicions review) have already been fixed.

Klingon Denial involves blood, death, and drink. Not in that order.
I think Handlen has a good point about Kahless' reaction to being a clone, but maybe the reason why he doesn't seem shocked by the news is that he's clearly shocked that he lost to Gowron at all. After all, he's had the idea that he's the greatest

Hey, crazy strong shields sounds like a great profit opportunity right there. Especially since they could then turn around and sell their new weapons, because everyone's getting metaphasic shields these days.

Maybe that's the real reason they speak with those harsh, metallic voices…it disguises all the vocal tics they have.

Do we ever see the Rutans that the Sontarans are fighting? I'm ignorant of most of Doctor Who continuity before the new series, so I apologize if the answer is really obvious to more experienced Who viewers.

Wow, didn't realize just how long that would be once it posted. Sorry about that.

Hey, now. I may disagree with the review, but that's no reason to get nasty. If you don't agree, say why (even if your comment isn't as freakishly long as mine turned out to be).

Man, I don't know.
I'll admit that part of my love for this episode comes from the chase scene, because of the music. Just gorgeous stuff.

It's a reference to a culinary monstrosity that America has created. It involves stuffing a chicken inside a duck, and then the duck and chicken inside a turkey, and cooking them all at once.

It's funny….
On the one hand, Ed has skills that no one else on the crew does, so you'd think that someone like Jet would go "Hey, we could use those" and invite her aboard. On the other hand, none of them like kids, so I guess that was the first thing they saw when they finally met her.

I actually read it as raging, so I was expecting something about a Muppet riot.

My friends and I call that "Kirking a society."

I'm not sure that Stella was seduced by Clayface, since it's likely he didn't even remember her from the one movie. But beyond that, I definitely agree that it's a classic abusive relationship on his part, even if she initiated it.

I can't say I cared for this review either. Heavy Metal Queen is not an especially deep episode, but it's still enjoyable without needing some kind of caveat. Hell, it's kind of nice to take it as a slice of life episode, showing more about the Bebop universe in a way that doesn't require a deep plot. I know that for

Man, Vertigo is one Swastika away from being a Nazi in "Off Balance."

I figured the line wasn't about his real age (though you could argue that it is, since after the hypergate accident that made him, he had to crawl out from beneath the body of his parents), but about what he's become. As S. Jerusalem put it, Wen isn't the devil, but he wants to think he is, because it's easier to take

Plus, the Chief was not a major character on the Enterprise, so having him be treated like one would have been kind of weird.

I'll defend the philosophizin and such.
I'm not going to claim that Vicious and Spike's dialogue together makes a ton of sense. But here's the thing-it's short, it's to the point, and it's easy to follow. They don't have full monologues on the nature of being, how to live, and all that. These are two people who know

Yeah, the scene with his daughter was pretty great too. It's probably easy to convince yourself that this man is a terrible person, no one loves him, he's just taking it all out on Picard….but he has a daughter. Who he clearly loves, and who loves him back. And yet he teaches her that humans don't get to be loved.

Oh, those wacky Cardassians!
I was thinking about this last night, and I think the key moment for Picard's breaking was his first response to Madred's final offer: