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DS9 S5E19 – "Ties of Blood and Water"
This week, Alice and Skyler are back to discuss DS9 season five, episode nineteen, "Ties of Blood and Water." Topics include lizard privilege, the very big movies Skyler knows about, how to snag yourself an ovenful of hot plastic, cat heart health interventions, this episode returning to the "bad episode name" Star Trek naming convention, characters showing up just to die, drunk Vorta, and much,…
This week, Alice and Skyler are back to discuss DS9 season five, episode eighteen, "Business as Usual." Topics include scoring baseball equipment from your trainer before he decamps to Brazil, a restaurant Skyler goes to constantly, some classic Bob Marley cuts, good movie theater business ideas, Ferengi strip clubs, the sweet camaraderie of the Sandler project, O'Brien being completely at sea…
This week, Alice and Skyler are back to discuss DS9 season five, episode seventeen, "A Simple Investigation." Topics include the dulcet sounds of Ireland, Sisko's extremely normal reaction to Odo sleeping with someone, why Bashir's plot this episode is legally NOT a James Bond riff, the career of Paul Feig, why watching Shutter Island half-asleep is the best way to watch Shutter Island , just how…
This week, Alice and Skyler are back to discuss DS9 season five, episode sixteen, "Doctor Bashir, I Presume." Topics include Alice's therapy breakthroughs, the kinds of shoes Skyler knows about, squeezing a little prison time into your schedule, Leeta and Rom's very grounded romance, what song should become Spain's national anthem, episode name games, and much, much more! Listen!!! To hear…
This week, Alice and Skyler are back to discuss DS9 season five, episode fifteen, "By Inferno's Light." Topics include everybody's favorite contrite comedian's Netflix comeback, what the hell actually happens in this episode, Skyler's dog, Bodie, hiding under the bed, difficult-to-find clips, that laugh-a-minute Italian poet Dante, just how many Cardassians there actually are, so-so makeup work,…
This week, Alice and Skyler are back to discuss DS9 season five, episode fourteen, "In Purgatory's Shadow." Topics include Alice's upcoming trip to Spain, the sheer number of apartments some Europeans have, Skyler's recent little jaunts to the movies, when and where Bashir got kidnapped, the shame of wasting a cool name like "Enabran Tain" on character as dull as Enabran Tain, Bradley Cooper's…
This week, Alice and Skyler are back to discuss DS9 season five, episode thirteen, "For the Uniform." Topics include getting back to the warm bath of a so-so episode, what you're allowed to bring into a Best Buy, whether or not Skyler's too cagey about the people he knows and the life he leads, Alice being wrong about which house was the Mary Tyler Moore house, Scott Pelley absolutely going off on…
This week, Alice and Skyler are back to discuss DS9 season five, episode twelve, "The Begotten." Topics include Skyler's trip to France, what "Philadelphia" evokes in the imagination, the sheer workload David Remnick is under on any given week, the silliness of acting when your scene partner's a jar of honey, tapping your pals who don't play music to play music at your delivery, their feelings on…
This week, Alice and Skyler are back to discuss DS9 season five, episode eleven, "The Darkness and the Light." Topics include the career of Bryan Fuller, the songwriting skills having cats leads to, smoky transporter skeletons, having a low-key birthday with some low-key vegan Italian food and bad service, loving the song "My Hometown" from Eurovision Song Contest , Kira's Bajoran terrorism…
This week, Alice and Skyler are back to discuss DS9 season five, episode ten, "Rapture." Topics include Alice being in New York, what kind of rapture Sisko's actually experiencing, Dax "Mona Lisa"-ing the big Bajoran painting of the cold open, what Bane actually said, where the hell a certain signature in Alice's "get well soon" card is, filling in Jarmusch blind spots, the power of National…