Here's the thing: I am not a critic paid to watch entire seasons of a show. I watched the first season. Didn't care for it. I'm under no obligation to watch literally hundreds of hours of a show I don't like just in case some random comment guy calls me closed-minded years later. I watched a whole season. That's…

Brad Dourif was the character with the mental illness.

"…the legacy of How I Met Your Mother…"

This is news? An unofficial notice that Jim Carrey might be on SNL?

If there's an actual answer to why they're there, and the film isn't just a series of absurdist imagery, then wouldn't Cube be a better comparison than The Prisoner?

I wouldn't personally know. I don't listen to his podcast and the only ads I've seen were the trailer on this very site. I don't doubt it, though. Smith loves to talk about himself and I'm sure he's talked about how he came up with the idea for this film in plenty of venues, all of which you feel I should have seen.

It seems to me that especially in this case, not knowing where the inspiration for this picture came from would be preferable. Especially since knowing that gives away the entirety of this thin plot. It seems to me that this review feels the need to bring it up to patronize the project before even getting to review…

This lame Goofus and Gallant thing… are you guys this bored? Maybe you need to think about a new career track?

It wasn't a straw man who called me ignorant of basic storytelling elements. That was you. And, truly, I should have ended this conversation there. I don't care what the writer's regret about the show. Their viewpoint is from a million different ways they could have taken the show. Mine is from what actually appeared…

Kes didn't die to "make way for 7 of 9". She died because her lifespan was programmed into her genetics. She died because if she hadn't, it would have been a cheat. And would have made a poor terminal illness metaphor. This is both character and serialization.

The reason I didn't get into Chakotay's character (a non-Christian spiritual person is still pretty rare on TV) is that I don't have they time to lay out a dissertation. I have a dog that needs walked and a kid to take to get her first bike and then to the park. Additionally, this conversation is a waste of time…

On the contrary; I'm sure it's the best descriptor there is. Unfortunately, even though the vast majority of DS9 fans are apparently lighting and set design enthusiasts, touting those as the reasons your show is good is like saying she has a great personality.

That is a fun game. Now let's play the game where you try to defend your own position. Or have a point beyond "you didn't see more than one season, so you can't have heard everyone who ever defends the show using vague 'dark' descriptors for it". Which I guess is what you're saying? And is a point that makes no sense.

I only watched the first season of DS9 so I can't speak much to what it became, but I can say that every single time someone defends it, they call it "dark" and "dirty" or "gritty", which is silly. As though portraying a craft as having mood lighting and a poor janitorial staff equates to good storytelling. Battlestar…

I certainly wasn't assuming they'd find the gate to Hell. Is that some kind of overused trope about the Paris underground that I'm unaware of?

I never understood why people loved Deep Space 9 but hated Voyager. DS9 just sat there. I like my Treks to… well, Trek. The only problem with Voyager as far as I'm concerned is that the negative reaction caused the show to be cut short with a Deus ex Machina series ending.

Congratulations. You did that thing that every single pre-teen in America has done at least once. Good thing you documented it.

I want to know what's the point of coming out and telling us the characters end up in Hell.

"The show also had a really great theme song, which is probably the only thing anyone remembers from it."

"Throughout The Armstrong Lie, the subject remains elusive, even as he sucks other people…