@avclub-db0c35ce2663c0e8c4b3f38642a49748:disqus He popped up randomly in a Season 2 episode of Community in a moderately amusing low-key guest role. Still nothing like what he got to do on Dollhouse, though. And yes, I wish that had launched a higher-profile career for him.

@avclub-db0c35ce2663c0e8c4b3f38642a49748:disqus He popped up randomly in a Season 2 episode of Community in a moderately amusing low-key guest role. Still nothing like what he got to do on Dollhouse, though. And yes, I wish that had launched a higher-profile career for him.

It kind of retroactively justifies the way everyone inaccurately calls these things holograms.

It kind of retroactively justifies the way everyone inaccurately calls these things holograms.

Oh, sure, I get that it's thematically vital to establish that Mal and Zoe were fighting for a cause they believed in, lost, and live the rest of the series in seething resentment. And a space-war scene is an understandable way to set that up. I'm just saying that the scene turned me off aesthetically, especially…

Oh, sure, I get that it's thematically vital to establish that Mal and Zoe were fighting for a cause they believed in, lost, and live the rest of the series in seething resentment. And a space-war scene is an understandable way to set that up. I'm just saying that the scene turned me off aesthetically, especially…

SPOILERS BUT NOT REALLY FOR SERENITY THE MOVIE

SPOILERS BUT NOT REALLY FOR SERENITY THE MOVIE

Now I want a show where Badger from Firefly has Badger from Breaking Bad as his (maddeningly incompetent) criminal flunky.

Now I want a show where Badger from Firefly has Badger from Breaking Bad as his (maddeningly incompetent) criminal flunky.

You are one of those good parents they talk about on the TV!

You are one of those good parents they talk about on the TV!

(Everyone who didn't already know races to go recalibrate their A.V. Club staff ship-o-meters)

(Everyone who didn't already know races to go recalibrate their A.V. Club staff ship-o-meters)

SPOILERS FOR ANGEL SEASON 4

SPOILERS FOR ANGEL SEASON 4

Yeah, the whole point of mapping these post-Civil-War tropes onto a futuristic setting is that you get to hang on to the fun ideas (scrappy rebels nursing a grudge against a victorious central government) while being able to guiltlessly strip away the morally indefensible themes specific to American history (the fact…

Yeah, the whole point of mapping these post-Civil-War tropes onto a futuristic setting is that you get to hang on to the fun ideas (scrappy rebels nursing a grudge against a victorious central government) while being able to guiltlessly strip away the morally indefensible themes specific to American history (the fact…

@avclub-2b4398f8c60d5dd9b8e3c786a3745192:disqus I'm in the camp that holds that MST3K stayed great right up through the end of its tenth season. It's true though that the host segments plunged from "tolerably hokey" to "rend my flesh to dull the pain" starting in S7.

@avclub-2b4398f8c60d5dd9b8e3c786a3745192:disqus I'm in the camp that holds that MST3K stayed great right up through the end of its tenth season. It's true though that the host segments plunged from "tolerably hokey" to "rend my flesh to dull the pain" starting in S7.