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Wow, that payed off much more than I thought.
I could see the Jeremy/Henry/War thing coming, but boy did I think it worked. I ALWAYS love a smash to titles with a Rolling Stones song. When it ended I just turned to my mom and exclaimed, "That was so much FUN."
Was there a more fun show this season?

I loved the bit with Cheryl pretending to be "J. Edgar Hoover's mother" because it was so obvious no one was buying it yet it worked anyway.

I don't know what I'm most excited for. Probably whatever causes Lana to say "you did the exact thing I told you not to" and there he is with a tiger!

That trailer … I haven't been as pumped for something in … I don't even remember!

I think what makes that balance of Deep Space 9 is that the Federation as an ideal still exists. No one ever gives up on the Federation. Even the members most critical of it, such as Quark and Garak, admit that the ideal of the federation is incredibly powerful. They challenge the Federation and show it's cracks,

I'm expecting season 4 Connor from Angel.

The overly formal voice mail might be my favorite "out of time" joke so far. The best ones are not the obvious "I don't know how X works" jokes, but the "oh I guess he would think that" jokes.

His face was particularly punchable tonight.

As another Hate-Watcher, I think I hate-watch for 2 reasons
1) I know a lot of people who love it and I want to be informed when I argue about it
2) I find Newsroom bad in such a particular, unique and fascinating way.  No bad show is bad like the Newsroom is bad.  It's much more interesting than a lot of better shows.

Uhg, that episode was as great as it was intense.  Almost an hour after and I'm still tense.  UHG Jack!  Resign and have Alana take your job.  This show kept dangling possibilities of Will getting out of this mess, such as Alana discovering the clock, and then taking those possibilities away.  Ah, I wanted to go flip

My favorite part of Storage Swappers, Ferral Jesus: $0

I cackled for a good 5 minutes when Eric glided sadly out of the room.  Did they put him on a skateboard and pull him out? Did half of their budget go to Game of Thrones?

Seconded, that finale blew my mind it was so exciting.  IMHO a good finale should have 3 out of 4 things:

I tend to like the whole thing.  In fact it's one of my top 10 favorite episodes.
It's a really good sci-fi idea and I like the way the episode follows how each of the character's reactions as well as their possible fates.  I think the middle stuff makes the episode, getting to know Worf's "followers" and the Mollys,

Season 1 isn't as good as the rest, but it's not bad. But if you're going for an amended list, I'd watch the first episode and Evicted as they're important in knowing who's who.

STILL SPOILERS (for Ds9 and BSG)
What I really liked about the idea of the Pagh Wraith/mystical plot was how it was such a tonal shift.  That in the middle of this war, there had been this other cosmic plot building.  I think they made some weird decisions with it - I remember on Memory Alpha them saying something like

Aw man, we have to consider the DCAU.  Batman The Animated Series and Justice League Unlimited have serious credentials.  And because I jut wanted to add some more shows to this list Gargoyles, Spectacular Spiderman, and Samurai Jack are also amazing achievements.