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Just so I'm clear:
Killing American fascists - good.
Killing Muslim fascists - bad.
Both sites seem to suffer from lack of activity on boards for actors/actresses, directors and other individuals. I just checked the Hugh Jackman board on both sites: on this site, the last comment was 19 days ago (was that before or after IMDb shut down the boards?), and TMDB's HJ board doesn't have any comments! Seems like most everyone on both sites is participating in the TV/movie boards and ignoring the "celebrity" boards. It's a shame. On IMDb's boards I had a list of boards for all my favorite actors and actresses, and every day someone posted at least one new comment on one of them. Here, I can't create a list of boards, and in any event almost all of the boards I used to track have been dead since they were migrated here. It can't be for lack of awareness of this site, because every time I go to the home page the Trending section is full of movies and TV shows whose boards were updated mere minutes ago!
I'll stick with this site for now because of the archived IMDb comments, but if the "celebrity" boards continue to be mostly quiet...Well, what alternative do I have? As I said, it appears to be no better on TMDB in this regard. I'm hoping we'll get a trending section for actors/actresses/etc. on the home page soon.
How? Check the username!
There are much better episodes that do that. I think what bothered me about that one was how much of a letdown it was, story-wise. It had some really funny moments, in fact it has two of my all-time favorite scenes in the show. The first is the sequence of cutaway scenes showing Archer ending up on the no-fly and "no-train" lists, and the second is the fake-out parody scene as the plane is crashing when Archer calms Cheryl by kissing her and channeling Humphrey Bogart, only to drop her the next moment. As great as those scenes were, though, the rest of the episode wasn't nearly funny enough to cover for the fact that nothing really interesting happened. Pam and Krieger pursue aliens, but when they finally catch up to them they're not very interesting (or they might have been had they been given more screen time)
As for that fight scene, something about it didn't sit well with me. I guess it was because Archer could have avoided murdering all those soldiers (American soldiers at that, so there wasn't even the excuse that they were the enemy) if he hadn't let Pam and Krieger wander off because he was too busy fixing a drink (and if he had bothered to learn the name of the colonel who first interrogated them). When they got off the crashed plane, he acted competent for once by successfully conning the colonel into thinking he was Agent Slater (and by making a sinister reference to Project MkUltra to scare him into giving them Jeeps), but later when he's stopped by the soldiers it turns out he thought the colonel was a lieutenant named Colonel ("Lieutenant Colonel"), so he doesn't know who they should radio to vouch for his presence. That's a funny twist, but when he's left with no choice but to kill them that's taking the joke too far. It's not that scenes of Archer killing people bother me (the opening scene of the Bob's Burgers crossover is great), it's that he was killing American soldiers over a situation that was almost entirely his fault.
They already went to Area 51 in season 6. It wasn't a very good episode.