I wonder if Arya was considering a mercy kill but then the Hound chose to spend his last moments on earth being awful, talking about raping her sister, etc.
He couldn't even find it within himself to apologize, ask for mercy genuinely, or anything remotely human.

From the assassin that changed faces that helped her escape for Harrenhall, with the three names thing (season 2?).
The words she said is "Valor Margules" which is "All men must die" in Valyrian or whatever language they use in Braavos.

Pardon me for getting ultra-corny a bit, but…
I think a big part of how effective the Sheridan torture and rescue plot can be for a viewer hinges on what Sheridan himself says got him through- Delenn.

Ditto.
The "villain" of this story is not, actually, THE SYSTEM, or even Clark.
It is a complacent, frightened populace.

I disagree about Boxleitner's chops but I've defended his acting here before.

Yeah I like to imagine she wrote that like her first week of military training or something, like a struggling young actress who already knows what her Oscar acceptance speech will be.

Yes, that look was great, thanks for pointing it out. Boxleitner did that stuff so well.

You're leaving out how a person in Sheridan's situation might feel from moment to moment, day to day.
Yes, the Drazi being alive would invalidate the interrogator's act. That's why they gave him a new interrogator (who as we see in the next episode, uses slightly different methods).

Yep, I noticed all of those too (except for the typos).
Which is a shame because it is worth questioning the level and context of the violence in the show. The author is tackling a worthy subject but the mistakes in basic plot analysis ruin the argument.

Jeanclaudo Vandami

Yeah he was great.
It's especially nice since one problem B5 had a lot was their one-off actors. So many bad performances by random thugs and telepaths and Centauri, but this guy really brought it.

My last series re-watch was about 4 years ago.
That episode struck me more than ever, specifically because of what happened in the world since then.

Yes.
The episode exposes the true, dark underbelly about Clarke and everything he and people like him represent. More importantly, those that explicitly or tacitly support authoritarianism.

I remember a lot of people hated Intersections, odd that you remember it otherwise. It really split people down the middle.
I happen to love it so I look forward to telling you how wrong you are about it next week.
Er… I mean, discussing it. Yeah.

A little surprised and disappointed to see no mention at all of Lise.
I know she is not a great or appealing character but she is important to Garibaldi. And yes, cue up valid critique of pop culture using women only as props for male characterization, blah blah.

Social-media obsessed is the name of the game, it's business reality.
The fact is though, there is a lot of funny and stupid stuff on the internet, and it's prime material for comedians to make fun. That's all this show is- in retrospect, such and obvious idea that I'm surprised it took so long.
I guess that's kind what…

The problem with Tough Crowd with Colin Quinn's awkward screen presence. He is a very funny writer and, in the right mood, a great stand-up, but he's naturally weird and off-putting and it doesn't work on a TV hosting gig.
Hardwick isn't nearly as funny a stand-up but he has a fantastic host personality.

But I've also been introduced to comics I didn't know about through their appearance on the show, like Nikki Glaser and Ron Funchen (sp on both?). They kill every time they're on @midnight.

This is all true- it's unfair how he was treated.
But that's also true for Jon Snow. Neither of these kids asked for being pariahs, but they are, and one of them is a good person and the other is not.
Even then it's relative because the good person here, Snow, still chooses to make his way in life with violence. But he…

I don't know if it would be better, it would just be different.
You seem to be coming from the assumption that the story telling perspective of mystery is inherently superior to that of the omniscient audience, and it's just not true, one is not "better" than the other.