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Marshall Ryan Maresca
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I didn't watch this show when it aired, but in the summer of 2001 Comedy Central was airing it every morning.  I made a point of not only watching the entire series that summer, but I found the scripts online and read each one multiple times.  I swear, these forty-four episodes are a master class in dialogue,

Having read the books, no: Artemis doesn't have kids.  She basically signs up girls to be part of her Virgin Hunting Squad of Eternal Youth.  Also, to answer the thing that probably is concerning you with children of Athena— they aren't traditionally conceived.  Essentially Athena hangs out with smart guys, and

I'll throw another "Preacher" vote in.

I think Mackenzie knew who Hank Williams Jr was.  I took her question to more mean, "Why do we care about his political opinions?"

As with @LurkyMcLurkerson:disqus academic sister, I do take issue with "kiddie lit" of "children's literature", because the former is smug and condescending.

Hmm.  A quick bit of research shows over at Scholastic, they list "interest level" as grades 9-12, and a grade level equivalent of 7.4.  And, yeah, I feel pretty comfortable with the idea that a child under the age of ten would be pretty gifted to be able to read it.

My objection to that moniker is not that it shouldn't be read by kids under ten— if they can manage it, of course they should read it.  My objection is the moniker implies that it shouldn't be read by people OVER ten, or that those who do are somehow slumming. 

It's a classic of literature.  I love the book without reservation.  It might even be loved by young audiences and of course it won the Carnegie.  But calling it "kiddie lit" is far too deprecating for such a giant work.

I would strongly argue that a 450-page epic novel with a glossary and footnotes is not something that should be classified as "kiddie lit".  

Or maybe he didn't realize he undercut Garibaldi's misgivings TOO much by letting us know that Something Was Wrong With Garibaldi too soon.

Taking out the Raiders?

Well, Garibaldi is thinking long-game.  He's presuming that they're going to be proven right and thus welcomed back as heroes eventually.  But also, for that to work, they need to be above the board.  "Dr. Franklin is a drug addict" is a bit of ammo that they don't need on record.  The propaganda war is already killer.

In a real way, the Vorlons and Shadows were playing a game of chess against each other, in which they were trying to keep each other from actually seeing the board.

*Vorlon Jukebox noises*No, no, YOU'RE "KOSH". I'm "The Dude."

@avclub-774c4a3e756c4d8f28b15a27ed4408c7:disqus Oh, yes.  She was also in "Weird Science", as the girl-on-a-chain of the punk guys who crash the house.  "You have a lovely home."

So, I've mentioned how I carried around a VHS of "Twilight Struggle" to get a bunch of converts, so through the third season there were a ton of us, and of course, we couldn't all watch at the same time.  So the running joke between us throughout the season was whoever saw it first would joke, "Good episode.  Kosh

Each verse has lists of things he would do, "run right into Hell and back" and such, and then ends with something that's an "I'll never…", such as "But I'll never forget the way you feel right now" or "But I'll never do it better than I do it with you"… i.e., those are the things he wouldn't do.  Essentially, things

That episode was in the second season, Clooney didn't leave until the fifth.

If I recall, in the second Evil Leaper episode, Al is upcouting the likelihood that the kid Sam leaped into isn't going to do something crazy again, because Sam won't leap (with Alia) until it hits 100.

I remember hearing Bellisario talk about the compromises of the fifth season, saying something along the lines of, "It was pretty much math: I could do 4 episodes that the network wanted, and get 18 that I wanted, or I could stand my ground and do zero."