The Prophets don't need apologists; they already are going to have had them.

Yeah, it offends me as a consumer.   You've got millions of people following this trend/fad/whatever, and there's not one low carb meal in the freezer section of my grocery.   After umpteen years as an American, I don't know how to deal with wanting something but not being offered it.
 
I pack leftovers most days, but I…

I liked the horn dog bit too, but partially because I saw it as a subversion of Kirk.  
 
I also like Bashir because he is the first link in the Julian Bashir/Wesley Windham-Price/Gaius Baltar continuum.

Bashir's early season goofiness was a bit much, but I liked it back at the time.   It highlights some of the underside of the Federation — Bashir's a talented Starfleet officer, but at this point, his opinion of Starfleet and himself is unseasoned at best.   It would certainly take a boatload of confidence to go…

Sorry - I didn't mean that I wanted Top Chef to have a paleo challenge, I meant that I want Healthy Choice to include a paleo-friendly dish or two.   

It was a good fight, but if Tom didn't like her, he would have been able to shut Grayson down pretty easily.

1) Padma's potato sack outfits were weird.  Also, she's inhumanly beautiful, but her knees aren't her best feature.   They seem merely human, and therefore out of place.

The 60-foot-tall Gorilla from Ipanema

It's either brave and realistic or weird and off-putting that both Buffy and Xander, while good people in lots of ways, are also colossal jerks in some respects.

There is a guy who played Ray Nicolette on Karen Sisko, but I'm too lazy to IMDB or wikia it.   I agree that Keaton would be the bomb, though.   (Which is why I suggested it last week.  ;-)  )

I don't know about great actor either, but so far, I'm buying his character.  Being weird and otherworldly (or "fey," for that matter) excuses a lot of off character beats, as long as they're consistent.

I agree on the cage idea.   Just don't use the one in Giles' library, because it has a window.

I like it because it ties into the whole undercurrent of Federation arrogance.  The Federation thinks they have solved all of their own problems, and although no one (other than Bashir) will quite say it, they sort of think that if the Bajorans and the Cardassians would just join the Federation and get with the…

I don't mind chefs who have a distinctive cuisine, like Sarah and Italian or Beverly and Asian fusion or whatever it is she does.    As long as it tastes good and you can survive the challenges, go for it!

It's a line you can't use unless you've earned it, but IMHO, Peter has.   It's exactly what has happened to him, and it describes exactly what his character is going through.   So I'd say it's cheesy but authentic.

1) My favorite part of this episode, probably of the Season so far: When Peter takes charge of the strategy meeting, taking some ownership for his place in the universe, and the camera cuts to Walternate.   Walternate has this little smile of pride as he watches the man his son might have been.   Absolutely beautiful,…

Spike's not telling all of the story.   If Spike really believed that the whole deal was that the slayer wanted to die, then (1) why is *he* the one who killed two slayers and not Lyle Gorch or some random vamp.  Slayer killing is still a pretty big deal, and the vamps we've seen do it (The Master, Dru, Spike) are…

Without spoiling (much),

Dead Dixie Mafia Guy drinks "Piper Van Winkle," which I like to imagine to be a mafia-sponsored knock-off, along the lines of a "Rolox" watch.   In my imaginary world, the fact that he can mess with PVW is a subtle hint of just how evil the man was.

Word.  Anti-dentite leads to one of my favorite exchanges ever:
 
Kramer: Sure, Jerry.  Next you'll be saying that dentists should have their own schools.
 
Jerry: They DO HAVE THEIR OWN SCHOOLS!
 
Kramer: SEE!!!!!