Another show might have gone to lengths to make sure neither side in the
Dominion War was, strictly speaking, right; here, while it’s possible
to sympathize with the Jem’Hadar, and even the Founders, there’s no real
question.

In the moment where he's opening up and you're supposed to feel sorry for him, he bizarrely chooses the adjective "tall" to mean…manly, or strong, or stoic, or whatever. Even if you wanted to take him seriously, it's so ridiculous.

That lava guy from last season, no way he was Wesen. He was some kind of earth demon.

Annie is at home with Sting (his visit was her gift to Mike), having to admit that she’s never heard of any of his songs. This seems unlikely if Sting really is one of her husband’s favorites, so my interpretation of this too-long scene is that Annie hates all of Sting’s songs and is just fucking with him.

He narrowly beat out Rush Limbaugh.

Belay that order, computer. Authorization Rappin' Jake Sisko-Zero-Gamma-Four.

People keep saying that, including Zack, and yet never say which scenes they would cut or why they should be gone. Zack finally copped to thinking the slow-paced delivery of bad (his words) speeches was self-indulgent straining for profundity the show doesn't support, but there wasn't really enough of that to add up…

Fictional appearance of psi I can tolerate, but they deliberately chose the popular but thoroughly debunked "unused part of our brains" explanation for it (she got brain surgery to activate it!), and that's just silly.

I kind of thought she was letting him spout off hoping to frustrate him into revealing something she could use in convicting him. Cops are good at letting people talk their way into prison. It actually made me respect her more that she just sat there and took it without blinking, until she insulted him and walked…

The only one here I read is Superior Foes of Spider-Man, but I really recommend picking that one up. (You're only five issues behind.) It really is a hoot. If you like caper films with bumbling protagonists, a la Snatch or Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, you'll find a lot to enjoy.

Well, as the informant from Justified put it a couple seasons ago, "It's not like it looks on the postcards. Mosquitos the size of Hondas, everybody's speakin' French, one airport in the whole place. It's not for me."

There isn't nearly as much specialization at the high school level, because the offenses and defenses are not as complex, and younger bodies aren't as developed. So it's quite believable that the second-best place kicker on a suburban high school team is a first-string RB (although I thought Manny was an offensive…

I find it restful. No stakes, no sting, no pop culture dependency. Just a double handful of pleasant, attractive people being slightly rude to one another and then hugging.

The football fan in me cries out in horror that you called Manny's kick a "field goal." It was an extra point. (Phil's gadget play was also called a "Triple Gullwing", not a "Triple Goldwing", but since neither name means anything in football, no points will be deducted for that one.)

Short, non-intrusive, and it also wraps up with a noticeably larger chunk of the A plot still to go than usual. The last 12 or so minutes of the show are all Worf & Dax.

I think I'm getting old, because when Da Bears aren't playing in the early game on Sunday, I think "Yay! I can take my weekend afternoon nap after lunch!"

I too am watching both. And MJF's show.

Hmmm. Created by Ray McKinnon, who was heartbreaking and awesome as Reverend Smith on Deadwood? Now I'm interested.

Does the fact that the kid cobbled together out of the parts of several dead people and reanimated with a Satanic ritual is having more trouble adjusting than the witches reanimated through "the power of resurgence" with all their own original bits really require an explanation? To me it just kinda makes intuitive…

I want to say that this is a callback all the way to Season 2, where Jax is poised to leave SAMCRO behind and go Nomad, but is stopped when Gemma finally reveals that she was raped by Zobelle's thugs. Jax buried his beef with Clay for another 54 (!) episodes, because family comes first, but it never went away. I…