Sir and/or ma'am, I respectfully submit to you that you are completely insane. Thank you and good day.

Nope, epguides.com lists this one as production #2J7007. "Skin" was 2J7005, "Are You Receiving" was 2J7006, and next week's is 2J7008. In two weeks, we get the first out-of-sequence early episode, "Arrythmia," which is 2J7003.

X-Files, really? None of that "mythology building" makes the slightest bit of sense and none of it went anywhere whatsoever. The show's strength was in its stand-alone monster-of-the-week episodes and characterization. And its amazing use of British Columbian locations. The mythology was utter and complete horseshit.

When Wilson Phillips became popular, they already sounded dated, so your confusion is understandable.

They started filming in HD sometime around season 4 or 5. I'm no expert, but HD may not be natively PAL or NTSC… (?). It looks better in general, that's for sure. Most of the RTD era was standard-def and therefore traditional 625-line PAL, like older British shows. I imagine that a lot of other British TV went to HD…

Whaaaaat? Well, that sucks. For the past few years, each season has premiered about a year after the end of (the second half of) the previous season (not counting Xmas specials, obviously). So I was just ASSuming they would continue that pattern. Eh, I hope this longer wait means the writing will improve. HA!

Oh I see. This is called PAL vs. NTSC. In the UK and many other parts of the world, they use 625 lines of resolution, which is PAL, instead of our 525 lines, NTSC. I grew up in a household that watched a lot of British imports on PBS so it never bothered me.

Oh shit, is THAT why? I hadn't even thought of that. I heard it goes faster because things always seem to take longer when they are new experiences, and there are fewer and fewer new experiences as you get older. But your explanation makes more sense for this depressing phenomenon.

I don't see many similarities to Archer despite the involvement of H. Jon Benjamin in both. This show is much more pleasantly sweet (though not too much). I had to give up on Archer — most of the characters are such irredeemable gigantic assholes to the Nth degree and I can't dig that. I had the same problem with…

To my knowledge, in one of its later seasons, NYPD Blue was one of the first major-network dramas to wait until January and then run an entire season all in a row. That was well before Lost. It wasn't a shorter season, though.

That was Joel Hodgson?! Wow. Even better, Tom Scharpling again did a great job as Steven's father.

Thanks, that gives me more faith in the writers (and maybe a bit less faith in Jim Caviezel, but whatever, he's an actor and not a writer and he was probably caught up in the moment).

Thanks, that gives me more faith in the writers (and maybe a bit less faith in Jim Caviezel, but whatever, he's an actor and not a writer and he was probably caught up in the moment).

Thanks, that gives me more faith in the writers (and maybe a bit less faith in Jim Caviezel, but whatever, he's an actor and not a writer and he was probably caught up in the moment).

Thanks, that gives me more faith in the writers (and maybe a bit less faith in Jim Caviezel, but whatever, he's an actor and not a writer and he was probably caught up in the moment).

Thanks, that gives me more faith in the writers (and maybe a bit less faith in Jim Caviezel, but whatever, he's an actor and not a writer and he was probably caught up in the moment).

Thanks, that gives me more faith in the writers (and maybe a bit less faith in Jim Caviezel, but whatever, he's an actor and not a writer and he was probably caught up in the moment).

Thanks, that gives me more faith in the writers (and maybe a bit less faith in Jim Caviezel, but whatever, he's an actor and not a writer and he was probably caught up in the moment).

Thanks, that gives me more faith in the writers (and maybe a bit less faith in Jim Caviezel, but whatever, he's an actor and not a writer and he was probably caught up in the moment).

I'll be a crank and just give at an A instead of an A+, because some of the action scenes were insanely implausible, even for THIS show. Still great though!