Quibble: Babylon 5 also contained a nascent romance between Susan Ivanova and Talia, a psychic. The only reason the plotline never developed past a few soulfoul gazes is that the actress playing Talia left the show - but in a later episode, Ivanova confesses that she might have been in love with Talia.

I didn't even get that until my second watching of the season! But, yeah, Coates is the dude O'Neill yells at about red velvet donuts.

I know I'm slightly late to the party, but I feel as though the Judy King storyline has a lot of potential.

There were the incestuous gay twins who wrote Dear Prudence….

Possibly because he's sloshed every time you see him :)

I think Red also realizes that Vee is willing to go farther to win; and Red doesn't want the war to go there.

Oh, man, I wished they'd show the hangover. From what I know of nutmeg, it will get you high; but only once - a nutmeg hangover is enough to convince you to never, ever do it again.

I strongly suspect the show has taken huge amounts of artistic license with his character!

Please don't let it make you resentful. I was raised by upper-middle class parents who came up from poverty, and my dad actively resented that eight-year-old me was incapable of understanding class differences and just how good I had it living in the suburbs. I got labeled an ungrateful brat, and it rather screwed me…

I do appreciate Larry because I'm one of those white liberals who shops at Whole Foods and supports civil rights, and Larry (and Taystee and Poussey) remind me that I shouldn't take myself too seriously.

She did marry her Larry, and Larry actually did write a piece about having a fiancee in prison. It's nothing like what you'd expect show-Larry to write, though. http://www.nytimes.com/2010…

Even if fingerprints were taken, I imagine analyzing them would be low priority for the precinct.

I think there's another value to Larry as a foil for Piper's growth. Piper and Larry started the show as pretty much the same people - vaguely atheist liberals who attend the wedding of their gay friends, donate money to charity, support civil rights and shop at Whole Foods.

My thought was actually that she did not want to be naked and vulnerable in front of others. The show is pretty up front when it comes to nudity, so I think it's telling that Soso covered herself up as much as she could when being made to shower (i.e., it's an authentic narrative choice and not something done to…