It sounds like these "dog lovers" don't care too much for the people who might be frightened or injured by their dogs. To brand people who are afraid of certain dogs "bigots" is irrational. Yes, dogs have individual personalities, deep emotions and can think on a certain level, but they are not people. After providing for your own safety and the safety of those directly in your care, your main responsibility as a citizen in the public space is to the other PEOPLE who are there with you. No matter how much you love them, dogs rank below people or society does not function properly. And the dogs don't mind this arrangement in the least. That doesn't mean dogs don't deserve respect and consideration or can be treated poorly because they aren't humans: It means that the dogs need to be trained and controlled to fit into human society; humans in society should not be made to conform to the needs of someone else's dog. And, as a childless person who has owned, lived with and mourned many dogs, the idea that someone's kids might annoy me so they can just put up with my potentially killer dog is completely ridiculous.

Ugh to you. A few eps last season felt tossed together, and I'd started to get pissed off at the show. I wasn't sure what to expect from this premier. When the ep ended, my boyfriend and I both sat back quietly. Then we agreed that was frakkin great! We've been watching from the beginning and will continue to watch the show, because this premier did a GREAT job showing -- not just telling through a bunch of long, boring conversations about how depressing it was, which is apparently what the reviewer would've preferred -- how discovering that Earth was uninhabitable affected the psyches of everyone.

I won't touch on everything wrongheaded the reviewer said, but to say that nobody cared about Dee because she was so minor makes me think that the reviewer has been watching too much TV and is no longer attuned to the nuances of real storytelling. Dee wasn't Guildenstern. Dee had a more important role as the "voice of Galactica," as someone else on this board put it. For her to recapture a happy moment so she could go out feeling human is a big frakkin deal. Adama loved her. If even Dee was so out of her mind with grief that the mission he'd led them all on was a wild goose chase, then a horrorshow of suicide and murder were probably on the way -- and he believes it would all be his fault. That could drive a person crazy. Roslyn feels the same. Not only does she have her own grief to handle, but the grief of everyone else is all her fault. Before, when she was so polished, she always felt she was in the right. Now everything EVERYTHING she believed about herself is gone. She doesn't believe she has the right to stand up in front of people and say anything to them, so she doesn't. She can't. Lee's not in the position of either of these people. He's the obvious choice to address the council while these two work it out. I cheered when Adama got himself together at the end. If he hadn't the show would've been over next week.

The reviewer wants the cast to act like automatons so that the story will adhere to the TV storytelling principles she is familiar with. I like it better this way. If something can be shown, it's always better to do that than to just have characters talk about it, especially in visual media.

LW doesn't sound like she's trying to think of a reason to leave her husband, so I don't understand your harshness. Saying he has a union job with great benefits doesn't sound like she's implying he's uncool to me. Put your weird personal filters aside and read the letter.

When he's ready, when the urge to do something besides look at the TV becomes too great, he will turn it off and get off the couch. (Maybe he's just dead tired when he gets home. He is a few years older now than when you met him, you know. Work affects the body differently as a person ages.)

You can encourage him, however, with him-centric things. You can ask him questions about his previous artistic endeavors, whether he misses them, whether he's lost interest in them, whether maybe something else is interesting to him. Maybe there's something new brewing in his subconscious and it just hasn't formulated itself into a cohesive thought yet. You could find and go to art shows together to respark his interest. You could look at his old works and ask about them. You can find a new thing for the two of you to do together that might respark his interest in life off the couch.

You don't owe him anything more than any spouse owes a spouse: to be supportive and help your spouse live as happy a life as you can. One more thing is to make sure you two are having enough sex. The loss of sex in a marriage can snuff out the spark of creativity.