Fun fact: if you turn up 4'33" really, REALLY loud, you can just barely hear someone say "test your might".

Christopher McDonald
The sub-Lucas romantic dialogue between Yar and Castillo almost kills the episode for me. It's juvenile and awful and not remotely believable that Yar, of all people, would get involved with someone via that set of grade-school-crush conversations.

Agreed. It managed to evoke a bit of audience discomfort in the "I know this isn't a real position" scene, which makes it feel more like Office Classic than anything in at least a year. After everything I've already forgotten about last season, this feels like a pretty good start (better than this season's actual…

I think there was a Cannibal Corpse song called "Fuck Machete".

We Will Bury You
I bet Matt Parkman would love this comic intensely, despite having no clear character-driven reason for doing so.

Dad?

Hah! I fell for it!

Callie avenged!
Okay, so there was plenty to hate in terms of mishandled mythology and such, as everyone has noted. Buuut, I had also gotten accustomed to the idea that Tory killing Callie would be entirely forgotten… then she got straight up strangled to death! That's almost worth the Starbuck thing turning into…

There are two versions of the monarch/deity thing in paragraph 3.

Studio tinkering?
If you watch closely during the jail scene ("You know what hurts the most is the… the lack of respect. You know? That's what hurts the most. Except for the… Except for the other thing."), you can see that his actual line read was "except for the anal rape." Which is much more "Norm" and much, much…