I like Thompson's work here too and I'm glad it's being called out because I have read a lot of criticism about it and I just don't get it?  Especially since I think she's a MUCH stronger actress than Tallman.

Believers, Confessions & Lamentations- Franklin gets the stories about HORRIBLE DOOM AND FAILURE.  'tsup with that?
I think it's the whole thing where sci-fi shows almost never know what to do with doctor characters.

She is Worf?

She was searching for clear, concise, non-grey-area-BS purpose.  She is right now balanced between conflicting traditions, challenging one authority in favor of another, fighting evil without truly being allowed to fight it, and she's not even a specific species any more, and also falling in love with a former enemy?

I think she was on CNN Headlines at some point?  Is that still a thing even?

Bester implied Talia was dissected to mess with Garibaldi but I think the point of that was to troll them (and us?).  Her fate is open-ended but I think the point is it doesn't really matter because it's just Talia's body and her personality or "soul" is dead anyway.

It is Whedon-like in its winking snarky near-meta-ness.

Legos B5:
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I think I just didn't remember or understand the timeline vis-a-vis him being an outcast and pirate.  I remember having the impression that he had like NO friends/connections during that time.

I agree that's what happened but I'm not exactly sure what power Dukat had at that point that the Dominion needed to deal with him at all.  I suppose he still had some loyal elements within the military or something.

Siddig's claim that he'd have acted differently- I am suspicious it could just be typical actorly self-importance.  I mean how much different could have really made.

Anything positive about the character of the Voyager doctor is credit to the actor.  The show was terrible and his character was terrible- a freaking Pinochio as hologram, and his later plots were super horrible, as someone else explains with the singing and whatever.

We are all Kosh

Perhaps this pattern in television mirrors a pattern in IRL (art imitates life, to use a cliche).

But Garibaldi wasn't COMPLETELY under Bester's control like some zombie.  Bester explains that all he did was heighten some natural characteristics that were already there.

Ok but you're leaving out the fact that IA's actions were in response to genuine aggression from the Centauri and Drazi.  Just because they're a "bigger" group doesn't mean they're inherently authoritarian, you have to look at the nature of the conflict.

Well she came into conflict with Garibaldi in part over it.
Yes its source was personal, Garibaldi feeling guilt about betraying Sheridan and being overprotective, but he did not let her war-time activities go easily.

Hey how about it for the Centauri opera singing by Londo and Vir.
Melodically it's interesting because it's clearly modeled after Italian classical opera but the melody doesn't quite resolve so that it can still be a little alien.  I love that kind of thing.  I wonder if the writer and the score composer had to have…

Well yeah it's not a logical problem it's an aesthetic one.  It's just the kind of thing only Jurassic can make work, or maybe 'cause he's the one we're used to hearing by now.  Other actors adopting it just seem like they're struggling to get the words out.

IIRC there was a whole thing about the physics of Sheridan's jump with JMS on the interwebs, captured and summarized in Lurker's Guide.  But even I'm not nerdy enough to go find it right now.