What a show!

Okay, fair enough. It's been a while since I've seen the film and I remember part of the point of the film being that everyone else was making way more of a big deal of it than he was. Maybe it wasn't the best example.

I think the biggest thing is that speech in "The Bet."

a. The whole point is that the show doesn't even realize what Boyle is doing actually is sexual harassment.
b. Through that tone deafness they've written the arc as if Boyle is a character to root for.
c. Yes.

He asked her out in the series premiere. And since that episode she's explicitly said "No." Then there was his speech in "The Bet" where he says she will go out with him someday, which sort of crosses the line, especially after the explicit "No."

I'm not talking about a sexless life per se. I'm talking about those who don't seek sexual or romantic partners, yet remain happy. Just because they don't seek a partner doesn't mean they're sexless. And some people don't let sex, or their romantic status define them as individuals.

Yes. Anything can be funny. But the show doesn't even recognize Boyle's behavior as sexual harassment. Nobody's trying to police comedy so much as raise awareness of the dynamics at play. The article also correctly states that this obliviousness is counter to the show's generally good track record on awareness of…

It's also about sexual harassment not being as endearing as the show thinks it is.

I do think one does need to be nice, but that niceness shouldn't guarantee anything.

Yes, and they do appear to be laughing at him for his obliviousness, klutziness, and foodiness. But the show isn't laughing at him for that particular behavior though, they appear to be endorsing it.

Netflix and Shout! Factory seem to be picking up the slack, but a kid channel-surfing might not stumble upon those shows as easily. One of the important things that happened was that Nick at Nite was on Nickelodeon, educating a generation on the history of television, and making it hip for kids in the 90s to like…

But that's not really what anyone's saying. All anyone is saying is that being self-conscious about, and defining oneself by, one's lack of romantic partners is the problem itself. If you divert your focus to other things chances are strong that strong relationships of some kind will be the result. The important…

Hang out with people as people, if something happens, it happens. If it doesn't, it doesn't. I was, and probably still am, quite socially awkward. I can be quiet unless I have something to say, in which case I can be verbose.

And that's not new. I like McCoy, but what was he doing on the bridge half the time?

She was one day from retirement.

I gave up on tagging people about a week after the rollout. What I miss most are the show notifications. Why would a website like the AV Club take away a feature that drives traffic to their articles??

They wanted a woman so that Kira wouldn't be the only woman in the cast, but yeah, it would have been an opportunity to cast non-white.

She's always a fun guest on The Daily Show and Conan.

Here's what I think saves Sisko's birth from being too much of a Chosen One arc: the Prophets are non-linear. Sisko was in the right place at the right time to become the Emissary, but they didn't engineer his birth until after they met him.

I've made such a list if you're interested.