I'm sure it has some merits. For instance, trash fires generate life-giving heat.

I started early in season 2 while it was airing. And I didn't have too much trouble jumping right in like that, but once I had a chance to go back and watch season 1, I understood the relationships better. They're so foundational to the show that I could not, in good conscience, recommend skipping season 1.

Seconded. It's one of my all-time favorite episodes of television, period.

In the Wired interview linked above, he says "Kitty is the mother of Buffy".

"Dui" thank u.

I'm really tired of people who don't know anything about cataloging trying to make themselves look smart by dumping on the DDC. (This includes librarians who are not trained catalogers and wouldn't know how to construct a DDC number if they tried.) Sure, the religion section is grossly lopsided in favor of…

It doesn't have any white people, period. The director said that was a conscious choice.

Ave, Scenic Routes. You were deeply appreciated, and you will be missed.

Y'know, in sort of an inverse of that friendship, I used to be friends with a woman who was just absolutely terrible at being a friend—she'd say really, really insulting things to people's faces (because she believed them), and, when told, "that's insulting and hurtful" just be completely unable to fathom why the…

Some people act like assigning letter grades to reviews is some sort of moral imperative. They get offended by the absence of letter grades.

Probably from the P.D.Q. branch of the family.

*googles*

Get Out While The Getting's Good

Don't make me cry for what can never be.

He only uses Alexander Siddig as his stage name (he's credited as Siddig El Fadil for like his one director's credit, which happened after he switched to the stage name).

He was an obnoxious greenhorn! I adore him still. Although it helps knowing that he grows up.

AFAIK he goes by "Sid".

I wouldn't rule it out, but…Bashir was only his third role, ever. (Prince Feisal was his first—he started acting in his late 20s.) And he was gainfully employed, three or four seasons into a full 22-episode-a-year major property at the point he decided to change his name.

Okay, "drunk", fine.

Yes! Moderately fun story: I started watching DS9 with my dad when it first started airing, but he stop following it after a season or two (and I was at an age where I mostly only watched the shows he watched. We weren't a big TV family).