I have real love for TNG S1E16, “Too Short a Season.”
The Enterprise is dealing with a hostage crisis on a planet where the local government wants this old admiral who had negotiated a truce there decades before to come back. He shows up and it turns out he’s taking experimental de-aging drugs to grow younger. It turns out that when he had negotiated the original truce before, he had violated the prime directive and given weapons to some rebels, but he told himself that he made it even by giving the same weapons to the other side, which led to decades of bloodshed.
The writing is just okay, and the old guy / young guy makeup is pretty bad, but the scene where the admiral dies while looking into his wife’s eyes gets me. I also like to imagine that the ep might have originally been written with Kirk in mind as the old guy, because the whole “Well I made it fair by giving weapons to both sides” seems like the kind of cowboy insane shit that Kirk would pull and then never consider the consequences. The episode feels a little bit like it’s revisiting some of the times when Kirk would do his thing and then warp off into the sunset while definitely leaving some loose threads behind.
“My grandpa worked at the gives-orphans-cancer factory until he died of cancer, my daddy worked at the gives-orphans-cancer factory until he died of cancer, I’ve been working at the gives-orphans-cancer factory for the last twenty five years and by God I’m proud of my recent cancer diagnosis, and I will fight with every fiber of my being to make sure that my son grows up to work at the gives-orphans-cancer factory!”
Stephen Biesty is the illustrator and he did a series of these. This one is Castle Cross-Sections, but they’re all fantastic. If you like this style of book, also check out David Macaulay’s books including Pyramid, Cathedral, and City.
That’s how I got into the majority of my relationships! I realized that I had like no game whatsoever and I just stopped trying, and weirdly enough that seemed to work okay.
You’re 5 foot nothin’, 100 and nothin’, and you have barely a speck of political ability. And you hung in there with the best presidential candidates, grifters, and Russian mobsters in the land for thirty years. And you’re gonna walk outta here with a summons from Arizona. In this life, you don’t have to prove nothin’ to nobody but yourself and maybe the district attorney for Maricopa County. And after what you’ve gone through, if you haven’t done that by now, it ain’t gonna never happen. Now go on back to Arizona.
There’s also a theory that the 5th circuit exists to make terrible rulings so that the Supreme Court can overturn it but do it in such a way that it still advances some horrible agenda.
Something along the lines of:
5th Circuit: You can totally post the ten commandments in schools, because hoorah Jesus!
Supreme Court: You can’t actually post the the ten commandments in all schools, just the private ones, oh and by the way it’s totally cool and legal to drain all the funding out of public schools and give it to private schools.
With as many problems as the Hobbit movie trilogy had, I can say one thing for sure: Martin Freeman was a perfect Bilbo. Him being constantly irritated that he wasn’t able to sit comfortably and have a meal, all the way from the Shire to the Battle of Five Armies, was flawless. Freeman was a very good John Watson in the BBC Sherlock, but if The Hobbit movies had been better then his Bilbo would have been up there with RDJ as Tony Stark and Patrick Stewart as Professor X as greatest casting decisions of all time.
For the first time in it's 17 year run, TF2's review status has been demoted to "Mixed". (x.com)
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What are some underrated episodes from each series?
Just curious as I want to rewatch some overlooked episodes from each of the series out so far.
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Do they want Baphomet in their schools? Because this is how you get Baphomet in your schools.
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