I agree; plus this episode's other Edith storyline, with her suddenly being responsible for the babydaddy's estate, had me thinking that possibly Edith was going to take over the paper on her own, and become an independent single mother.

Given how much Lord Grantham craps on Catholics, I've always found this bit of backstory to be super bizarre.

Metaphor that demeans a great show in favor of this shitty one: but I guess the Lord Grantham-Bates relationship is exactly the same as Sisko-Garak from DS9. He's the guy under thumb with a shady past who can procure you what you need… as long as you don't think too hard.

Thanks for being so "nice". You're surprisingly angry about some random shit on AV Club, dude. Did you write it? Are you a struggling comedy writer? Do you have a secret love shrine to Fallon? Why do you even care that I think this sketch was sexist trash, did a feminist touch you in the bad place?

You'd have a better point if that skit worked at all.

I kept wondering who the audience was supposed to be for that, because it certainly wasn't women and ultimately came up with: adult men who find teenage girls still mystifying. Which is actually fairly ugly and sad and made Michelle's appearance doubly-disappointing.

The creepy storyline we're meant to think is romantic where Whitford's character stalks the hell out of Amanda Peet… shudder. It almost retroactively turned me off Josh/Donna. (A relationship that also has its problems but which the show, post-Sorkin, took pains to fix.)

Upvote for hemipenis and cloaca. That's some sexy reptile talk.

America, fuck yeah.

Yeah, I suspect it stands out a bit more if you're a card-carrying uterus owner.

You would enjoy the reboot series of novels, which takes on a load of these questions (in a manner I find mostly unsatisfying.)

I love the little braids. They're suitable for a woman who's now fairly settled down in life.

SPOILER?

The people who weren't around then will never be able to appreciate how truly disturbing some of the Dukat/Kira stuff was… it was quite the education in rape culture.

Nothing we see about their society inclines me to think it's particularly pleasant. If I were rebooting Trek today I'd probably use the Trill as a metaphor for the 1%.

Probably not. I've always wondered how that works when his staff is almost entirely Bajoran.

Doesn't quite work, because she's still a Fed citizen and presumably entitled to go see Bashir. (In practice, Bashir never seems to charge or turn away anyone on DS9, and Kasidy is both a citizen AND living there.)

I think Ezri does make the rest of Trill society questionable, though, since the only reasonable in-world explanation is that much like academia, Jadzia spent so long clawing into the joining program that she never actually developed as a person. She only developed as 'potentially interesting vessel for a worm'.

My fanwank for Jadzia's long, drawn-out death scene is that actually the symbiont does take most of the blast and is critically wounded. Bashir knows that Jadzia can't survive without Dax for very long, but he also can't do the hours-long surgery to save the symbiont's life without removing Dax from her body. So…

Well, Starfleet Medical actually seems to be a different branch of the service. They have their own ships and everything.