@avclub-bbb3af3d466d7231aa738ff95762091d:disqus I interviewed McCullough a couple of years ago and asked him about Sgt. Hatred; he seem mostly invested in the character because he liked the challenge of making a pedophile funny. Which I sort of respect, but man did it get old.

Yeah, this has bugged me a little more with each passing season. Like you say, the show is about a specific kind of male immaturity, which means that there's at least some intentionality behind the omission, but it still seems like they're leaving a lot of potentially interesting stories on the table. It's not like…

The oddness of the build is one of the reasons I liked the episode. The shift makes sense, and I appreciate it when the writers try and do interesting things with tone, especially when those experiments work as well as this one does. (The only real oddness is Zimmerman's disappearance from the Bashir storyline, but…

Wow, I mitigate that sentence a -lot-. Well, to save you time and unnecessary psychic hardship: I'm not huge on the first few episodes, but I love the show, and strong believe Todd will love it too. That's basically everything, apart from a reference to Daniel Clowes that I'm rather proud of.

While I'll give you points for correcting my mistake, getting caught up on a line in the opening paragraph makes it harder for me to take you seriously. But you have two first names, so I can't really argue with you. (I knew somebody would get upset about that Adult Swim thing. I just never knew it would be you, you…

" They come up with some minor thing and then develop it later."

Given what happened in the Halloween episode, and given how much of the best stuff of season four was about Hank and Dean, I think I sort of agree. I wouldn't want to entirely drop the show's mythology, because I think it adds some great texture (and it also gives both boys something to try and grow up out of; one of…

Probably because the pervasive assumption that masculinity = awesome and femininity = not so much awesome is pretty deeply ingrained into our society, and deserves being called out at every opportunity. (That said, let's all shake hands and agree that Worf is a bad-ass, just like Kira before him, and there's no reason…

I don't know either way, but I doubt it; the show's reputation doesn't suggest it would be worth a careful going over of all seven seasons, and I'm not sure we'd have the readers to justify it. But who knows.

Please see above.

Oh goddammit, that's who I meant. (Though I made a Star Wars error while writing about Trek. Do I win a prize?)

Oh, that's fantastic. I remember the scene, but hadn't made the connection.

Note: The only reason I mentioned the mistake is because I saw it on Wikipedia. I never, -ever- notice that shit.

The Doctor is really the only reason I've ever been curious to watch more Voyager. (And it's odd that his break-out is such a surprise: he's basically in the same mode as all of Trek's break-out characters, an outsider trying to make sense of humanity and his place in it.)

I had no idea Siddig was unhappy with the twist. Interesting.

Sadly, this was three years ago, and the link no longer works. So on the plus side, you can still stay away from the Fearsome Chattering Of Madness At 140 Characters.

No?

A year or two ago, a Twitter friend and I were making jokes about HAL from 2001—I can't remember the context at all—and a minute or two later, Urbaniak throws up this link that's just a recording of him doing the HAL voice, made just because we were kidding around.

Get their clothes.

This is the only thing that's kept me from rewatching the show—the last season is really tough to watch. (Though I agree that it's the best.)