Doesn't it pretty much go without saying that these are all being done by a variety of people with different opinions?

I honestly remember liking quite a lot of S7 when it was on, I think because they minimize the by-then pointless and incomprehensible mythology episodes, and the biggest two-parter (Sein Und Zeit/Closure) is actually quite good. But "Hungry" is great, and I remember enjoying "Signs and Wonders", "Rush", "Orison",…

I honestly remember liking quite a lot of S7 when it was on, I think because they minimize the by-then pointless and incomprehensible mythology episodes, and the biggest two-parter (Sein Und Zeit/Closure) is actually quite good. But "Hungry" is great, and I remember enjoying "Signs and Wonders", "Rush", "Orison",…

The thing about it is that it's an actual THEME song, which I love. As in, it lays out the themes of the show instead of just singing "Yeah yeah, firefly, firelies are so great, ya ya ya".

The thing about it is that it's an actual THEME song, which I love. As in, it lays out the themes of the show instead of just singing "Yeah yeah, firefly, firelies are so great, ya ya ya".

Very different aesthetic tastes, clearly. Buffy was a far more emotionally affecting show as far as I'm concerned, and again, comparing the two in terms of humour is like comparing a pebble to mount Everest. I don't think I've ever seen a show miss the mark as often when it comes to humour than Babylon 5. Buffy was…

I wasn't freaked out, I just disagreed. Sheesh.

Definitely agreed that most SF shows about space travel and the future of humanity are in dialogue with Trek. It's the inescapable granddaddy of the genre. What's funny is that most of them start from the point of "No, see, what Trek got wrong was…"

Definitely agreed that most SF shows about space travel and the future of humanity are in dialogue with Trek. It's the inescapable granddaddy of the genre. What's funny is that most of them start from the point of "No, see, what Trek got wrong was…"

Man, having the main character get into a romance with a transgendered alien? THAT would have been subversive!

Man, having the main character get into a romance with a transgendered alien? THAT would have been subversive!

See, now THAT'S snark for snark's sake!

See, now THAT'S snark for snark's sake!

Even with the groundwork being laid, it all seems a little facile. I mean, call me a cockeyed optimist but I don't think even the dumbest voters are going to embrace a party that flaunts their fascist ideals unless there's some kind of major turmoil driving them into their arms. In real life they'd spend more time…

 
SF , TNG is SORT OF monoculture, but only in that they shied away from addressing issues of religion (except when dealing with weird alien religions). They never had much fear of pointing out that Picard was French. Very, very French. DS9, from what I've seen,…

 
SF , TNG is SORT OF monoculture, but only in that they shied away from addressing issues of religion (except when dealing with weird alien religions). They never had much fear of pointing out that Picard was French. Very, very French. DS9, from what I've seen,…

There was a party that wanted to seize and abuse power, which obviously they did, but I didn't get the sense that Earth was turning into a right-wing madhouse before Clark's coup. I mean, they did build Babylon 5 right before the show started, and it's at least nominally devoted to the idea of peace and harmony. And…

I'll need to go over it again as we go through these recaps, but I take JMS's ideas as being a somewhat muddled version of JFK-era gun-barrel neoliberalism, but he relies on the same kind of strawmen that people like Frank Miller or Ayn Rand do to make his points. In this case it's "let's make everyone a simplistic…

It doesn't bother me. Seriously. I thought I was reaching the attendant level of snark that most other AV Club threads seem to achieve, that's all. And it does seem to me that these comments have been tilted far towards the positive, but I guess we can agree to disagree on that. I don't think people are wrong or…

It doesn't bother me. Seriously. I thought I was reaching the attendant level of snark that most other AV Club threads seem to achieve, that's all. And it does seem to me that these comments have been tilted far towards the positive, but I guess we can agree to disagree on that. I don't think people are wrong or…