To me, that's always part of the appeal. The slow, methodical build-up—the implacable nature of the threat, in which no one jumps to conclusions, no one makes any stunning deductions, but the whole horror is laid out in front of us piece by piece—that really gets me. I understand the criticism (the ending of…

The chapter about the mattress is one of the few parts of the book I still remember (somewhat) clearly.

I meant explicit in terms of "each character represents a certain aspect of Bashir's personality!", which isn't something the episode does. I could've been more, um, explicit about that though.

I was honestly wondering if "species" would've been more appropriate. Either way, we can all agree: I am horrible.

Not to be a jerk, but I've been told this multiple times by various commenters. If it's true, it still doesn't cover why he's mopey _all the time_. He's only had a handful of those lines to deliver anyway.

"Systematic"

Not really a needed a comment, but—I think The Sopranos' one word would be "decay."

i suspect CCH Pounder's character might be heading in this direction. But I hope I'm wrong.

Eh. I think that's pretty easy to grasp in context.

Liked for the pun, you crazy so and so.

I think I said I would be disappointed if there wasn't some craziness, although I didn't think the Lost finale would be anything like "Fall Out." It wasn't, but love them both.

Thank you very much for the pity! But I believe you have missed a crucial point. I don't think "being severed from everyone you know and love" is a happy ending by any stretch of the imagination. It totally isn't! But we're not talking about this in a void. This is a story with monsters in it, and when the monsters…

I watched that again for an inventory—I think it was last year? Anyway, it's not _quite_ as scary as it was when I was eight, but it's still pretty freaky.

Well, we're not just talking about what the Angels do to people—we're talking about what the Angels did to the people who were affected in the episode, neither of whom seemed all that broken up about it by the end. Billy doesn't get the cheery wedding photos, but he also doesn't give a monologue about how shit his…

All valid points, but given a choice between, "Torn apart by terrifying living statues with very sharp teeth" and "sent back in time where things will probably be scary and unpleasant for a while, but then you'll get married and that'll be nice, eh?" I know which one I'm taking.

I had no idea it was her until Todd mentioned it. I'm not a great credits reader.

So long as you know the Doctor has a police box that travels through time, you're good. (I watched it way out of sequence my first time, and didn't miss a thing; it's very continuity light.)

Huh. I avoided that remake (loved the original show), but I didn't realize Gilligan worked on it. That sounds super cool.

Yeah, I just heard about this on Twitter, and it kind of took the wind out of my sails. I still think getting rid of Lee is the best choice at this point, and I still hope it'll work out for the best; but that means all the stuff Lee was doing earlier basically just ran into a brick-wall, plotwise. It also means that…

I feel like we've done this question (or something vaguely like it) before, and The Prisoner was my answer last time. (Maybe that was just an Inventory? Ah, it all blurs together.) Could've just as easily gone with The Sopranos, Lost, "The Devil's Hands Are Idle Playthings" from Futurama, Angel… there are a lot of…