Especially in the original run of the series on Sci-fi, where the first four episodes of the second season included "Dream a Little Dream" (the "oh, this really shouldn't have been our season premiere" episode) and those two… it didn't seem to bode well that season two was going to pull it together.

It also didn't help that the solution to a lot of Voyager's problems were technobabbly.  I mean, if I'm being charitable, they wanted to show their characters being resourceful and clever by MacGuyvering solutions— but it's all "route the tech through the tech and cause a tech inversion to tech the tech."  On…

I saw a clip of her on some Australian soap/drama, and she was just so normal, it was very bizarre.  As much as that sentence makes sense.

Farscape lampshades it a bit with the general unpredictability of starbursting, but in later seasons there is a bit of, "Shouldn't you be far away from this?"   But, yeah, most space shows are terrible about this sort of thing.

Yeah, but he stays on his side.  He knows very well which side is his side.

Yeah, when I did my rewatch last summer, the only two I skipped were "Jeremiah Crichton" and "Taking the Stone".  Oh, and the Zhaan-on-the-planet-of-lawyers one, whatever the correct title of that is.

I have a certain fondness for "Coup by Clam", but I'll give you "A Prefect Murder".  That one is a mess of deliberate off-puttingness and out-of-character behavior.

I've always been kind of amazed how much Gigi is not-Chiana.  Part of it is the make-up, but when you see Gigi as Gigi, you usually don't even see a hint of Chiana.  I remember seeing a video of one of her con appearances, and she's talking, and it's like any other Australian woman…. and then she shifted her face… and…

I remember when I first saw "Durka Returns", I was kind of amazed that the episode ended with Chiana alive and still on the ship.  And I thought, "Huh, I wonder if she'd still be on board next week."  And, yeah, Gigi Edgley did a lot of impressive character work and had a lot of presence, and I realized that I really…

I'm kind of disappointed that they didn't make those for O'Hare or Conaway.  The ones for Biggs and Kastaulas were really perfect.

I know.  I mean most of the time, I can accept that Kosh says something bizarre and cryptic, and people just shrug and figure that it's above their heads.  But in this case, I can't imagine that Sheridan wouldn't demand some straight answers.  At least TRY.

@avclub-6d8e5be200a835beb77d899f00b890a5:disqus I was under the impression Ms. Whitney had difficulties with sobriety that made her work unpredictable, and that was the key reason for her leaving the show.

Which would why Byron had moments with Lochley that seemed kind of random— leftovers from when it was Ivanova.  I always thought that his special telepathic goodbye was to her was very odd, like they had had this major connection.

Wait, what?  Is that Denise Crosby, Terry Farrell or Jennifer Lien?  Seriously, I don't think I've heard this one.

What I don't understand about "All Alone" is how Sheridan didn't tackle Kosh to the floor and demand answers ten seconds after the episode ended.

If it makes you feel better, I'm pretty sure that she's mostly a stage actress who would do a bit of TV/Commercial work to pay the bills.

The vision here is neat, but when it's explained, yeah… it loses every bit of mystique.  It's pretty much JMS going, "Oh, yeah, I need to explain that vision" and he all but sets up a powerpoint lecture explaining the symbolism point-for-point.  A fine example to counter the desire for later heavy-serialized shows…

If you accept the underlying theory that Glee had to address the Harlem Shake, I would agree they probably did it in the best way they probably could manage: using it to visualize Finn's state of mind of college just suddenly breaking out into a crazy party. 

They had Neelix's holodeck resort.  It was just as badly presented as Risa here.

The worldbuilder/fanwanker in me would like to believe that Risa has a culture where giving & sharing pleasure is their form of spirituality.