I knew what the Terracotta Army was! Thank you, Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor!

The President, who I assume would have to authorize this action, was able to make this decision pretty damned quickly. Since when is the order to vaporize over a thousand innocent people okayed so fast? I guess everyone in Chester's Mill is a Republican.

The President: "This dome, which came out of nowhere just two days ago, is blocking the route of butterflies over Chester's Mill. We don't know what this invisible dome over Chester's Mill is, or what the dome is made of, but I'm not waiting for the butterflies to figure out how to fly around the dome over Chester's…

"Dome" I can understand. Sort of. If you're talking about it, and it doesn't have a proper name, there isn't a lot of choice. "That thing overhead?" Meh. What's bugging me is they also keep saying "Chester's Mill" over and fricking over (I counted 9 separate utterances in this episode alone). Instead of "town" or…

I love how Big Jim says she might as well die "a free woman." Hey, genius, you're all sealed in a dome.

This episode was indeed a strange brew. It felt like a two episode mashup.

Seeing the cow sliced in half every week is still the best part of this series.
 
Is it me, or is anyone else getting sick of people constantly saying the name of this town? I also live in a town, but I don't continually say things like "it's always been this way in Chester's Mill," or "it's going to be a bad day in…

Never saw Tara and forgot he was involved with Band of Brothers. I guess I was thinking more along the lines of Amazing Stories, SeaQuest, Earth 2 and so on that just had a weird story focus. And cute kids.

What's "funny" about this series is that, through Pope, they freely acknowledge the same weaknesses listed here. Tom being a crappy president, the Mason family drama and the general stupidity of the people in charge. This doesn't make these things go away and it's still bad writing. But it's a Speilberg series, and I…

The point was you were making some kind of ironic joke which, instead of a laugh, actually reads like you screwed up. Don't blame us if we didn't get it. MASH sometimes need a laugh track, too.

Rod Serling was a man of great imagination and talent, but even the best writer would churn out hackneyed crap when required to produce half hour dramas on a weekly basis.  As the series chugged along, some of Serling's TZ scripts were mind numbingly bad. But just as one is losing faith, he could create a script of…

I'll grant you that. I have no qualms about knocking a + to a -. Especially on this series, which I only follow because (incomprehensible mumbling).

Holy crap, an A-? THIS episode? When other, superior episodes were lucky to get a B? I must have been watching something else. Tom's reaction to the snake joke was WAY over the top. All this time, I thought Tom was a morning person, but obviously he's got his period. Tom usually has a little more empathy toward people…

"Kal Penn, the latter especially wasted" - I wish. Watching him toke up and scarf White Castles might have made some of this a lot more fun.

Dennis Heysbert available? His awesome leadership on 24 got Obama elected.

I was "eh" on it. The cast was hit and miss. Dean Norris is one of those "I've seen him in everything but don't know his name" type solid character actors (see Will Patton). He was fine ("open your minnnnnnnnd!"). Jeff Fahey was also great to have. Rachelle Lefevre is my new crush. Love redheads and she filled out…

Considering the huge list of gripes Les has, I'm surprised this episode's grade is so high. This episode should be "C" material going by his review.

Quark is DS9's best character. Period. He and Rom are the only Ferengi characters worth anything.

I could definitely see Harry Kim diving toward the ground as I pray the force field fails to save him.

"Now that it’s confirmed his evening rendezvouses with Karen weren’t just dreams but real meetings he’s wrapped up in conflict, first prepared to leave entirely, then to turn himself in, then decides not to."