Are you planning to use Amazon Drones that anticipate the GGlass purchase before it happens?

I was let down when, after all that anticipation and build-up, Dowd didn't give it a C+.

I wonder if this is one of the reasons why Dexter was more interesting in the early seasons compared to the later ones. He was still the protagonist, but his character definitely shifted on the "crafty scoundrel/coward" scale.

"This is total paranoid delusion. It's pitiful."

"The brave man likes the feel of nature on his face."
"The wise man has enough sense to get out of the rain!" - Egg Chen

"Vedek Bareil, could you come over here? I need to block this massive radiation leak with something, and I don't want to get these sheets of lead dirty."
"Okay."

"Ewok village" and "douchebag monkeys" are not mutually exclusive.

I have that in a box somewhere.
Walt Simonson's run on Thor was literally epic, and that page (with a second-rate villain going out in a blaze of glory) is one reason why.

Well, it is pretty hard to plan for the studio to tell you the series will end after four years, and then have them give you a fifth year after the fourth-year bridges were burned.

I was going to chip in, but I agree with both sides. It is a shame to see Worf sucker punched like that, but a long fist fight would have been absurd.

But even with coup-leader guy, it is easy to imagine a plausible rationalization for his actions. He probably believed that he was the best one to defend Earth, so in his mind it made sense to get rid of the pacifist hippie pinko-Commie liberal types. (I believe the episode even gives him a speech where he says the…

DS9 was showing on WGN in Chicago. So anytime there was any game with the Bulls, Cubs, White Sox, or Blackhawks, I'd have to scramble to the (paper printed) TVGuide to find out what other time slot DS9 was bumped to.

But from looking through Memory Alpha, it looks like a lot of what made the Doctor interesting was ad-libbed. If Picardo stuck to the script given him, without giving feedback, I suspect that the character's self-awareness and spunk would have disappeared.

Except that was part of JMS's plan, to have many plans instead of just one (if that makes sense). For example, every season he had contingency plans to write out any possible character if the actor decided to move on, without it completely derailing the larger narrative.

Hmmm… I think the distinction is between the crafty scoundrels ("You do not know the meaning of honor!" "Maybe not, but you do."), who are often awesome, and the crafty cowards (who try to toss the benevolent characters under the bus while they are running away).

(I need to imagine that Fleetwood Mac were actually saying "Tosk!" during their song.)

Now I'm imagining Martok and Kor on "Full House", hugging while the canned audience noise goes "awwww."

I think it helps if the show runners have a plan (to avoid writing themselves into a corner), even if it doesn't turn out to be the plan (because the show evolved into something better over time).

All glory to the Hypnotoadspray!

Now I'm visualizing a mirror universe where Worf is… a little less noble.
Imagine if Alexander could have pulled off the maneuver.