Gah, I hate Amy.  I have always tried to give Mary-Louise Parker the benefit of a fair shake when I see her, but she just rubs me the wrong way, without fail.  Amy's a particularly irritating character.  The show seems to think she's quirky and whimsical (a MPDG, I guess), but on a show where everyone else seems to be…

Gah, I hate Amy.  I have always tried to give Mary-Louise Parker the benefit of a fair shake when I see her, but she just rubs me the wrong way, without fail.  Amy's a particularly irritating character.  The show seems to think she's quirky and whimsical (a MPDG, I guess), but on a show where everyone else seems to be…

Yeah hate to break it to you, but that was just River pretending.

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Nice job with the review.  Especially good note about the geography of the station.  I don't think I'd really noticed before, but now that you mention it, I definitely feel a better sense of how everything of DS9 fits together better than any of the Star Trek ships.  Part of that is certainly the fixed location of the…

Fixed it.  But as a good Amish boy, I feel like I should be encouraging him to revert back to the old Hebrew spelling.  I encourage all my fellow Amish on the Internet to do the same.

It's called "Explorers," and it's a lovely little story, with the emphasis on "little."  Something DS9 didn't always nail, but when they did it was gold, was the relationship between Ben and Jake Sisko.  Exhibit B is "the Visitor," once voted the best Trek episode of all time, even when few enough people were watching…

Yeah; thank God Brooks settled into his role later.  I don't think he was ever *bad* (unless you're comparing him to Patrick Stewart, but that's a little unfair), but his early readings were a little bit broad at times.

@avclub-94d8526a5fae933806f65b8a0f49301a:disqus  DS9 became very much a tonal departure for the Trek universe.  Yes, Roddenberry's vision was a Utopian one.  Deep Space Nine doesn't reject that vision completely, I say, but it fleshes it out and shows some cracks in it.  The future's still a near-Utopia, but when wars…

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I don't think DS9 was really a priority to TPTB at the time, they were more focused on Voyager, and so spending the time and money to get Spiner or Stewart (esp. with his stage career) wasn't really something they were willing to foot.  I understand your frustration, but personally, I kind of like that they cut most…

Welcome to Deep Space 9, Zack.  I'm glad you're looking forward to it.  Season one is a bit rough in spots (not as rough as TNG though), but it also has its bright spots.  The series as a whole, I think you've got the right of; it's different from the style and themes you'll encounter on the good ship Enterprise.

Tom's been getting more and more impatient for a few seasons now.  In the D.C. season it got so bad that there were some pie-in-the-sky wishes by fans that Anthony Bourdain would take over for him.

I felt that it was telling us a bit more about Beverly as a person, rather than Heather.  It does put some of her fragility in a new light, and establishes a pattern in her life of having difficulty defending herself.

I'm not sold on the racism slant, but I'm with Thrace, that it felt like heather was just being *extremely* close-minded; she'd gotten it into her head that Bev's only been cooking Asian-style food (true), and that this was a flaw, or that it just couldn't work with her style of food for some reason.  I mean, even if…

Never watched Friday Night Lights, huh?  In the fourth season, they flipped just about the entire cast, and damn if you didn't care for the new characters just as much as those there from the kick-off.  It's actually odd on a re-watch to root for the team who, by the end have become sort of the bad guys.

I actually had a moment where I thought Marshall was going to call her a Cylon. That would have been some legendary syn—wait for it—ergy!

And bashing Ohio State, too. Fuck the Bucks!

Well, he *is* a serial killer. I think it'd be odd for him to handle his problems in another way.