Since Diane is already content to raise multiple young children off-camera, it seems like her pregnancy will probably have very little effect on the show overall.  Given how pregnancy stories are usually pretty boring, I'd say this is a good thing.  That episode was fun and stuff.

I wasn't looking forward to this episode before, but this comment made me look forward to it quite a bit more.  It just gives me so much hope!

That's certainly true.  He is really awesome with actors.  That comment probably came across as excessively negative, given that I'm really looking forward to seeing the movie and think it'll be pretty great and stuff.

We know that the story won't fall prey to Joss's flaws, but it seems like his strengths are more in writing than directing, so I'm not sure if it'll really show off his virtues either.  Does Joss Whedon have any sort of history of making good adaptations of other people's scripts?  I guess if you're going to direct a…

I'm in roughly the same situation.  I'm now hoping that this episode has a horta at some point.

@avclub-7cbaf9384cf3835106bf2f444c0bcf65:disqus It's my understanding that Sleeping in Light was filmed along with season 4, so they might not have hired Scoggins yet or figured out exactly who Lochley was.  I remember that Lochley was briefly referenced in Deconstruction of Falling Stars, so they knew what the…

Omar would survive for a while, but then he would go to a convenience store looking to restock on supplies and fail to notice a zombie child sneaking up on him until it started chewing on his ankles.

@avclub-d72f705337e5adcf7e33ec0381c5f5b2:disqus I'll probably agree with you once we get there.  I'm only about halfway through the fifth season, but I'm definitely enjoying her presence so far.  It's a little surprising since my only memory of Scoggins is that she was really annoying on Lois and Clark.

SPOILERS I really like "And Now For a Word" on its own merits, but I tend to blame it a little for the way "The Illusion of Truth" spent the second half of the episode rehashing the previous half of the episode in a completely predictable and tedious way.  I couldn't believe how much time that episode devoted to the…

(Spoilers continue)  I'm pretty sure that the other races would have intervened in the Earth Civil War if they'd been asked to, but Sheridan went out of his way to insist that they not do so in order to reinforce the idea that this was a rebellion by and for humans instead of influenced by alien interests.  This seems…

@Automocar:disqus  I fully agree with this statement.  I skimmed the first season the first time by doing the half-dozen or so essential episodes, then went back and filled in the gaps as I was watching through the second and third seasons, and I think the first season episodes both gave me nice breathers and a chance…

I still disagree with this opinion.  Babylon 5 has a weak and mostly unnecessary first season, with only a few episodes that have any later relevance.  Even the episodes that do have later relevance are usually explained or reiterated clearly enough that it doesn't really matter.  Given how much better it gets later…

Rowan devotes a whole lot of time in his season one reviews to addressing this exact question, so I'd recommend reading his reviews of the first several episodes and generally taking his advice. It does get more fun and exciting in season two onward. The dialogue never stops being really bad, but it does start…

@avclub-7cbaf9384cf3835106bf2f444c0bcf65:disqusI feel like you're expecting the Prophets to possess a greater understanding of human morality than they could be expected to have.  Most of the omnipotent or nearly omnipotent species we encounter in Star Trek like Q or Trelane still live their lives and experience…

I think the idea that gods operate on too high of a level to give a shit about the individual lives they mess up is both one of the most interesting and most disturbing things about them, and it stands to reason that the indifference would be consistent whether they're generally good gods or evil gods.  I agree that…

@jerodast:disqus This is probably the best out-of-context comment to be updated on the bottom of the page ever.

Minor Spoilers:  Odo becomes much more interested in the absolute enforcement of the law when it comes to baseball, though.  He became pretty lawful neutral there.

Dang; I almost completely forgot about this show during the hiatus.  Now I have to start remembering it exists again.

The internet has always been a major breeding ground for the free-range rude.

Oh, what a cute little TV show.  I will name it Hannibal, and I will hug it, and pet it, and squeeze it, and call it my own.