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calliecat93 · 3 years

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ST: The Next Generation S3 Watchthrough Episodes 10-13

The Defector: So we have a Romulan who has defected. Well this should be interesting! Now understandably the Enterprise crew is hesitant to believe this is legit or not, leaving them to figure it out and if a Romulan base that he warned about is indeed a reality. Overall, it was fine. You can’t blame the crew for being skeptical, especially when they find out that he lied about his name, but I did feel bad for Jarok. He did legitimatley turn agains his people because he didn’t want his daughter to grow up in a war. That’s not an easy thing to do. And how it ended… how his own people manipulated him to get the Enterprise where they wanted them and it meant his decisions were all for nothingg… that was just plain cruel. I don’t really like the suicide ending because… well I just don’t like that in general unless there’s a really good reason for it. But it does add to just how cruel it all was, especially since his family will likely only know him as a traitor to his kind. It certianly continues to add to how threatning the Romulans are but add more complexity he same way that The Enemy did. The less depressing ending there makes me prefer it over this, but this was still solid with a very well executed climax. 3.5/5.

The Hunted: The allegory of the day is war veterans! Yeah, they’re not at all subtle about how this whole thing reflects how society mistreats war vetrans after they’ve fulfilled their purpose as soldiers. Danar’s not exactly a nice guy, but considering the circumstances as we learn more about him? It’s hard to blame him. He’s not an inherently bad person, but he has done bad things in the line of duty and once they didn’t need him anymore, the society that made him what he is treated him and others like a criminal/prisoner. While we nowadays do have efforts/movements to help war vetrans and I think most nowadays are more willing to call this out, consideirng this is just on the cusp of the 90’s… yeah, the message was likely relevant for that time and heck even now it’s worth repeating. There’s this feeling of unfairness, how Danar was made into a super-soldier and his people did nothing to take responsibility for their part in his and others pain and suffering, washing their hands of it. Once again, solid episode. The chase against Danar when he escapes fels like it goes on too long, but it was still exciting. Feels kinda messe dup that the crew left the situation as it was, but I guess it was the most effective way to hopefully allow a VERY necessary change. 3/5.

The High Ground: So we have Dr. Crusher getting kidnapped by terorists… well that sucks. So far I’ve been very happy to have Crusher back. She just fits the show more than Pulaskid did and whie I wish that she had more screentime, I’ve been loving her whenever she has gotten any level of prominence. Is this just gonna be a thing for the CMO characters where I wish they got it better cause they deserve it and I love them? IDK, maybe Bashir will surprise me when I get to DS9. Anyways! I feel like this was supposed to be a measured episode where we ympathized with the aleged bad guys who got forced into what they were… but it doens’t work. Maybe it did at the time but considering recent times and especially after certain events earlier this year, I find it very difficult to side with the whole ‘terrorists who claim to be freedom fighters’ shtick especially since there was no good reason to kidnap Dr. Crusher who was only trying to treat casualties caught in the attack. I get the intent and there may be some truth in there like the government’s handling of war on terorrism/treats others who shows even slight sympathy for the other side and how hyporitical saying that an ideal society didn’t shed a lot of blood to get there is. The episode was okay overall, I loved Crusher, how she remained devoted to her duty as a doctor even while a captive, didn’t put up with any of Finn’s crap, and how she talked down the one kid (yeah make me ympahize witht he terrorists using child soldiers, that’ll work!) from killing and thus hopefully ending the cycle. Dr. McCoy would be proud! But the execution and some other parts (Finn comparing himself to George Washington was just… even if he DID lose the Revolutionary War saying that he’d be called a terrorist is a HUGE stretch) just don’t quite feel right and as a whole… yeah if ST ever decided to do this again they’d probably have to do it very differently if they want to maintain any nuance. Also guess in three years we should expect terrorists to cause Ireland to unify just liek how TOS prepared us for that Eugenics War in the 90’s, so prepare for that folks! 2/5.

Deja Q: Q episode! Hooray! I love/hate Q, but his episodes at least are so gosh darn fun AND insightful! His entrance this time was… something. First, God, I love John de Lancie! No wonder they cast him as Discord in MLP, he’s so freakin’ theatrical and clownish, but also conveys so much intrigue and personality that you can’t help but enjoy him despite wanting to punch him. God, I think this is the hardest that TNG has made me laugh and now I know where a whole bunch of memes like the mariachi band came from~! But yeah Q is stuck as a human and we have a species terrorizing him… and I can’t say he doesn’t deserve it. Along with the hilarity, there’s a lot of good stuff here. Q and Data’s interactions were actually really nice especially since Q is in a place to get that human understanding that Data has been wanting to attain, the confrontation with Guinan was tense and God did she get brutal, and seeing this God-like being forced to endure the limitations of morality and hating it was both funny and adds more character to Q. If we do use the interpretation that Q Who was him teaching a lesson to Picard on his limitations/lack of knowledge to what’s out there, then Q got a taste of his own medicine here as no one is tolerating his superiority manchild tendencies and he’s in no position to force it on them. He does learn something from it though regarding mortality especially when Data sacrifices himself to save him and we do see a more self-loathing and vulnerable side to him, so whether that’ll do anything now that he’s his old self again we’ll just have to wait and see. But yeah, this episode was freakin’ great and I loved it~! 5/5

Alright, we are at the halfway point of S3! So far while there’s plenty of meh episodes, the ones that have been good have been good. As I said when I started S3, it truly feels like TNG has found it’s own identity and I am loving it! Why did I ignore this show all my life again? Ah well, better late than never~! 13 more for this season to go, can’t wait for it~!

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todokori-kun · 7 years

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(Ok, so I wrote out this super-long message but wifi died when I was submitting it. Tumblr told me I’d lost connection so I’m pretty sure it didn’t reach you.

If it somehow did, though…sorry for sending in another one OTL And sorry this keeps happening, my computer is being really weird ^^;;)

Tysm ;-; I’m glad I’m not annoying you or anything :D Queen Luna is honestly one of my favorite people to talk to as well, though. Thanks for being so amazing and supportive <3

Yep. Ishida’s Back.

I’m honestly not too sure how I feel about this pregnancy though. On one hand, since I never really cared too much about Touka I don’t think I’m going to have a hard time caring for this kid, even if they ARE also Kaneki’s child. I also think this wasn’t really necessary and I don’t want drama between Touken and other ghouls over the child- I want the plot to move forward and to get some questions answered…

However, it is really interesting how this parallels with other parents throughout TG’s story. Touken right now reflects the Yoshimura-Ukina-Eto dynamic, and I’m pretty sure the Touken child is meant to connect to Eto.

See, what I’m thinking about is that TG’s parents have a history of abandoning their children in favor of their ideals, even if they don’t always mean to do so. We have Mado, who was blinded by his black-and-white worldview and ended up dead, Arata, who sacrificed so much for his children that in the end he couldn’t even stay with them, Yoshimura, who left his daughter behind to create Anteiku (no matter if he meant well, it still affected Eto in a negative way and Yoshimura’s actions could be seen as partially selfish; he never considered how Eto would feel about this situation, after all), Kaneki’s mother, who was unable to choose between her child and her sister, and Kaneki himself could also count, having completely abandoned the Qs the moment Arima and Eto gave him the title of ‘One-eyed King’.

The only non-background-character who was actually a good parent is Shachi, I think.

So the question is: will Touken (Kaneki really, Touka seems to have made up her mind completely about this) be able to break this cycle? Will Kaneki choose his child like he wanted his mother to choose him over his aunt? Or will this child become motivation for him? (he’s never been the best candidate for the OEK after all, and he basically admitted to Amon and Seidou that he’s seriously depressed and just doesn’t care)

I’m also curious: pregnancies take a few months, y'know. I sincerely hope there won’t be a time skip. Or a miscarriage, because not only would that be too much for Kaneki and Touka, it would also be bad for the plot (why make Touka pregnant in the first place then?). Maybe the baby will be born in an epilogue or the last chapter. Maybe Kaneki and Touka will die, this kid will become the new OEK and Ishida will make a third TG series. Idk.

Wow, I didn’t intend to make such a long rant ^^;;

I think Thor’s new hairstyle looks cool (sorry Queen Luna) but yeah, it does also look a bit weird on him. Like, now I can’t look at him and think 'oh that’s the god of thunder’, I just think of Chris Hemsworth lol

That typo tho 'Nat and Clit’

Even after all that’s happened in canon, I still feel like Blackhawk have a deep bond and understand each other in a way the rest of the team can’t.

I feel like the fact that Sharon is Peggy’s niece alone makes it a 'NO’ ship XD the lack of development for both the relationship and Sharon as a character just added to that.

As for Loki…ah, well. If he wasn't such a jerk he wouldn’t be Loki.

Oh that sounds really cool :D And well, like I said above. It’s Loki. What can you do.

Haha, thanks ^^ I was obsessed with Bucky’s costume for a while after Winter Soldier. I literally had never heard of Captain America up until then so I didn’t even care about him (sorry Steve…do you still ship me with him? lol). I might actually have had a crush on Bucky at the time. Idk. I was nine(?).

I will drag you into Remember This Cold hell no matter what. It is my MISSION. I WILL make you have feels about Loki’s kitty (Steve got him a cat because he thought he might be lonely). I WILL make you sob over Loki’s redemption arc and his reaction when anyone dares to lay a finger on Steve (SPOILER: when he thinks Steve is dead he teams up with Bucky and absolutely destroys Hydra. When he and Steve are captured and tortured for information he threatens to cut open his own veins and summon a beast with the blood to destroy them all…he’s completely serious about that. One of the major things Steve has to help him with is how he gets desperate and suicidal whenever he thinks he might lose Steve).

Oh, so you won’t talk about Kanae, huh?

With my short existence, I can make a difference- I can be there for him, I can be his knight

Imagine this is Matsumae teaching Kanae about kagune usage and what it means to be a servant of the Tsukiyama family. For bonus angst, imagine that the slip-ups ('do it for her- that is to say, you do it for him’) are Matsumae talking about the late Mrs. Tsukiyama (HC that Matsumae was around when Shuu’s mom was alive, though I guess that’s unlikely considering her age…shush. Just ignore it for the angst.)

Kanae singing the 'I love you’ part from If I Could Tell Her as they fall off the building

Kanae singing 'But what you do when there’s this great divide? And what do you do when the distance is too wide?’ when Shuu is ill

'I wondered how you learned to dance like all the rest of the world isn’t there’ and 'There’s nothing like your smile, sort of subtle and perfect and real. You never knew how wonderful that smile could make someone feel’ as they remember their memories with Shuu as a child.

'I love him, but every day I’m learning- all my life, I’ve only been pretending’ from On my Own when Eto is torturing Kanae

And then most of 'It’s Over, Isn’t It’ is from Kanae to Sasaki/Kaneki, of course, but then imagine that the chorus ('And she chose you, and she loved you, and she’s gone- it’s over, isn’t it? Why can’t I move on?’) is like a duet between Kanae and Shuu. Kanae’s pining over Shuu, of course, but Shuu’s POV is after Kanae’s death (referring to himself as 'you’).

Hope you liked this :)

But wait, if you knew all of Urie’s songs, that means you know Still Sane…does this mean you’re a Lorde fan? Because I thought Still Sane was one of her lesser-known songs. I’m obsessed with Lorde’s music, so…

And I’m also a fan of Fall out Boy and Marina and the Diamonds. It'd be cool if you listen to them as well :D

Seriously?! Because blue is my favorite color…wow!

I haven’t watched FMA but I know quite a bit about it (the Roy rain jokes are the best lol)…we actually talked on your FMA blog once ^^ And I’m excited to hear about any of Queen Luna’s OCs! I’m sure they’re all amazing :D (hahaha, I can relate about embarrassing old OCs. I can’t think of any right now but I know I have some). I’ll send you a little info about my OCs in a seperate submission, since this one seems to be getting a little long (though I can’t be sure) ^^;;

Oh, all four of those are lovely! I feel like the girl with the yellow hat (top row, left) has the most icon-ish look, if that makes sense? She also reminds of Queen Luna a little bit, idk why XD but that’s just my opinion, all four of those characters would make beautiful icons <3

Yep, your internet did die ^^;; This is the only thing I got from you... So no worries about spamming me ^^

Aww *hugs* I love talking to you a lot, a lot! So if you ever need anything, I’m here ^^ (I’d add gifs, but internet is slow).

The pregnancy is as out of place as that chapter (once again avoiding pervy words hahah). But... if Kaneki’s a ghoul (halfway) and Touka is a full ghoul, why does the baby need human food? I’m gonna assume Kaneki is the dad because I don’t want to think about the other options.

I, too, think that the ghoul eating human food/human eating ghoul food for the baby to survive is a parallel for Eto, but we all know how that ended, so idk how i feel about it. Maybe the baby will be a cute and healthy kid who’ll live a nice childhood? Hopefully? Pls let me hope.

Maybe Eto’ll adopt the baby since she knows the feeling of being abandoned and will give it a nice, happy childhood? HOPEFULLY???

Honestly, I don’t remember who Shachi is, so...

*gasp* you wound me... How could you like that hideousness that is the hair (or lack of it). Jk, you’re free to like what you want ^^ I mean, it’s not that bad I guess... I just liked the old version a bit more. A lot more.

So much for avoiding risqué words.

I think their bond is mostly platonic? I mean, if Clint wasn’t married and didn’t have tons of babies, I’d assume there was more, but this way, I’d like to think it’s more of a brother-sister relationship. Why am I getting Love, Rosie flashbacks ;-;

Don’t tell me Sharon’s another Jane, this time with even less character -.-

I guess I’ll just avoid Civil War as long as possible :))

AS FOR KANAE

That’s my feeling about everything.

Well, my music taste isn’t quite definable by ‘likes this artist’ or anything, because it’s mostly a ‘I’m browsing youtube and I like this song, so i’ll download it’ one. So Still Sane just happens to be there. As for Fallout Boy and Marina, I do have quite a lot of their songs there ^^ But, generally speaking, most of my songs that aren’t idol songs ?uncomfortable cough* tend to go in the rock direction. Sometimes remixes and sometimes songs no one ever heard about, like Texas by Magic Man or Change My Life from Ashes Remain. Also, Holy by Zolita, although I mostly like that song because it’s so different from most songs nowadays. It’s a bit weird, though.

I really, really want to see all your OCs, especially the TG one that suffers a lot :))

Oh god, here’s my most embarrassing one, the FMA one:

Kk, her name’s Arya, she’s an alchemist (of course) and depending on how I felt at the moment, she was either shipped with Roy or Ed. Most of the time, it was Roy, so the info I wrote down was based on that. Is the cliche ‘sarcastic, but actually a huge softie’ character with right about 0 character flaws, other than being stubborn (’But it also helps when she’s suspicious about the homonculi!’). Now, this isn’t so bad. But here’s the best part. She has a stepdad (bc no oc can have a normal, fully functioning family) that tried to ‘merge her with a wolf, giving her enhanced senses and strength and making her hair white + eyes purple’. I still cringe when I think about her. Literal nightmares.

Then we have a soul eater one, where the girl is both a meister and a weapon (which is, by the way, impossible by the laws of that universe, since the souls of the two types differ greatly) AND a witch to top it off.

Thankfully, I never went too far with the looks, the white hair + purple eyes was as far as I went, but I knew to change it to normal (or try to make an excuse *coughwolfcough* if the universe was one where the colours were mostly normal. And I never gave them DDD+ boobies.

As for the newer ones, I don’t have many, but from the fandoms we share, I have 1 for YoI and 1 for MCU (this one was created yesterday :P )

The YoI one’s name is Nara and she’s a skater from Detroit, therefore Yuuri and Phichit’s rinkmate. Honestly, she’s not that talented at skating, but she does try to make up for it by practicing a lot. However, she doesn’t magically get better and lands 1st place, she’s content doing her best and just participating in the competitions, since she has a secondary job.

The MCU one’s a bit more mary sueish, but that’s what makes it fun. Kya, her power is ‘manipulating’ animals (well, not manipulating, it’s more along the lines of ‘animals like her and listen to her) and in extreme cases (when she gets very emotional), human manipulation (technically, humans are animals). When she was small, she was experimented on, granting her the powers. However, the faculty was attacked, allowing her to escape. She tried to live a normal life and was actually succeeding, but then Loki attacked New York and lo and behold, she actually managed to do some hero work, so the avengers were like ‘we’re not recruiting you, but you could be useful in the future so we’ll keep an eye on you’. That’s as far as I got, but I do plan on expanding a bit. Also, probably predictable, but Loki is her love interest ^^;;;;;;

Alrighty, seems like that’ll be my icon ^^ I’ll probably change the general colour scheme of the blog, so don’t be surprised if everything’s different the next time you visit :P The name definitely stays the same, though.

As for the ‘she reminds you of me’, you couldn’t be more right ^^;;; In the whole Love Live series, she’s the most similar to me looks wise, but also personality wise. A quiet bookworm who’s fine staying in the library whole day hahah I always cry during her character arc, because I relate waaay too much ;-;

Also, completely random, but I’m listening to ‘Merry Go Round of Life’ from Howl’s Moving Castle as I write this and it would actually make a pretty nice waltz song...

#evans #submission

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