The version of the customs set in the pilot was a lot more realistic (though you only got a good look at it in the special edition). It gave them a little trouble when they wanted to show it later on and all they had was a little security nook at the door.

"Never" is a long time. Londo may surprise you in the end.

Thirdspace was kind of like hell, and it didn't save them.

@avclub-945ba977c27d196cdeaf6cbe4ff682f4:disqus @avclub-774c4a3e756c4d8f28b15a27ed4408c7:disqus I wouldn't go that far. Tying together "You are the hand" and "The man in-between" is an incredible stretch. "You have two hands, so the man in the middle is your opposite. Because middle and opposite aren't incompatible…

I'll always remember one of the first times I was around when the Simpsons came up on an unrelated internet forum, and all the Aussies fucking hated Bart vs. Australia.

@avclub-7f538a2a6877984c16a663af38fb84d3:disqus I bet he regretted that later on.

The last Star Trek blu-ray theater thing they did, they included a retrospective special feature, and the last moment is Patrick Stewart being positively chuffed that some random guy complimented him on "keeping it real" when he saw him waiting for the subway. After he figured out what "keeping it real" meant.

"Quality of Mercy" is the one where he was blackout-sick when he wrote it. "Exogenesis" is the one where he had to put it aside for a week while he dealt with the crew unionizing, and Season five was the one where he lost his outline in a hotel room.

@avclub-ab60729bcbd8293eb5f31e5077c29049:disqus @avclub-49673224d509818a1087aa8e48dd56c2:disqus There was a look for the Worker Caste- they wore a sort of multi-piece orange tunic or smock. Offhand, the captain of the Warcruiser in "Walkabout" was Worker Caste, as was the captain of the transport that Delenn…

Some quick guesstimation gives me a single-level surface area of about 15 square miles for B5. That's three-quarters the area of Manhattan, and it's many levels deep throughout.

That was way more than a dozen ships, though. They must've spent the intervening year doing nothing but military build-up from the minute the Centauri left, which calls back to something Londo said in season one about the Narns over-exploiting their own planet, "And now you're doing to yourselves what you claim we did…

"At the time" is probably overstating it. The second halves of BSG's second and third seasons suffered from network insistence on stand-alone episodes (that, and eliminating a running subplot in the latter case).

@Automocar:disqus That's the second time in as many days that I've heard being stabbed nearly to death is the solution to (and cause of?) all of life's problems.

I'll confirm that. It was the Security Manuel. Right after the paragraph explaining what the deal is with fresh (or rather, raw) Spoo.

He earned that job. No one ever remembers that. It was, like, the first piece of continuity the Simpsons did.

It's also a sweet moment since Homer immediately provides both.

"If I had known there was a war going on, I probably would've apologized."

"He happened to have a fondness for hookers" is a line that still rattles around in my head.

Bitching about Apple mice is always my favorite kind of Apple bitching, because it's so blatantly outdated. I'll still hear people whining about right-click, even though it's been in the OS since '98, and Apple hasn't even sold a one-button mouse since '05. The scrollball mouse (which did suck) was discontinued in '09.

@randys_donuts:disqus That just reminded me again of something I keep thinking about when this movie comes up, a classic Fake Steve Jobs post where Fake Steve meets Ashton Kutcher. http://www.fakesteve.net/20…