Star Trek

Soooooooo......

Star Trek.

I grew up with Voyager and TNG, and I've made some excellent observations in the years that I've been on my Trek.

Just today I started looking up the DS9 actors/actresses' backgrounds, and now I know that Major Kira's pregnancy is not faked at all, it's legit!

Commenting on the writers of a tv show or movie has been something that I've noticed myself doing over the past few years. I'm impressed in this case, using O'Brien and Keiko's child getting relocated to Kira's body, oh man that implicates some pretty cool communication between the actors and the production team.

Voyager was my high school experience, and reviewing it as an adult is pretty cool(just started the pilot episode, but I've been reading up on the episodes I watched in high school over the past few days at work in my downtime). Lots of things I missed/forgotten, also I definitely focus on different things.

I'm at the start of season 5 of DS9; I've been working my way through TNG and after I finished that, DS9, over the past year and a bit? I think I started TNG sometime in my last year at Briercrest( 2014-2015 school year), although since I've switched to my own Netflix account I don't have an accurate count of my viewing habits over the past few years.

I wish there was a website like MyAnimeList for just regular tv shows, IMDB is the closest one I've really found but it doesn't really have what I wanted.

Anyways, maybe I'll write more of these while I'm watching Viyager, since I've already seen these episodes, and also even reviewed them. The nice thing about reading a summary of a tv episode is that when I review it visually the things I noticed happen at a hugely different pace.

"I never seem to have a chance to get to know any of them.... I have to, Um. I have to take more time to do that." Katheryn Janeway, VOY Ep1-2.

Some foreshadowing there; as a side note I actually love it when I get to see the writers use these tropes and tools, even if it might be heavy handed in my eyes, who knows, maybe at the time it was broadcast on PBS? it was relevant.

Also I definitely enjoy picking up on the subtler things. Tuvok saying that Neix might need a bath, also foreshadowing the fact that the Voyager technology/crew is vastly different then tbe Delta Quadrant individuals and cultures.

Anyways, reading up on the Memory Alpha and BattleStar wiki is pretty cool, looking at all of this from the perspective of an actual TV Station that oversees, plans, and scheduling the making of the tv series is a different perspective that I haven't thought of before... I just started the Pilot/miniseries with Joel, I think I had seen the first 20 minutes of BattleStar Galactica when I was younger, I remembered the opening sequence; pieces of it anyways.

That's all for now!

Hope vs Despair

Puella Magi Madoka Magica.

This is my first viewing of the movies, but I've seen the TV show twice now?

Hope:

Love, friendship, healing, emotional connections. The power of hope is incredible, but that's now why I'm here.

Despair.

Hatred, disillusionment, death, loneliness, sadness, detachment.

Time travel makes every anime better. The hero tries to change fate, trying over and over and over and over and over again to arrive at a different outcome.

The traveler knows. KNOWS, each and every outcome that anyone else could arrive at. They've been down this road, and every road next to it, multiple times.

It sets them apart.

They can't interact with anyone anymore, because they have to continue moving forward; they cannot unload their inner turmoil, there is no rest for them.

One step forward, two steps back.

That is the life if the time traveler at its very core. To overcome each conflict they need to travel further and further into the past to set in motion the Exact events that must align to find victory.

Sayaka gave in to despair.

Mami gave in to despair.

Kyouko didn't stop fighting.

Homura wouldn't give up hope.

And Madoka, she had the largest reservoir of hope of anyone, ever.

Spoilers ahead probably. (Probably before as well...)

"If someone says it's wrong to have hope, then I'll tell them they're wrong, every singe time." - Madoka Kaname

Dang the writers of this show are amazing. The art, combined with everything that the main character setup  for, the plot points, everything man.

"Keep believing in yourselves to the very end."

Yeah I'm just at a loss of words at this point.

If you haven't seen it, please do me the favour. I'm not sure if I can rank any others at 10 anymore. I need a new scale...

That's all for now.

Jk ending quote for Movie 2: Eternal 

"Don't forget.

Always, somewhere,

someone is fighting for you.

As long as you remember her, you are not alone."

Star Wars The Clone Wars

The Yoda series is incredibly spiritual and emotional.

S6Ep10,11,12(13)

Confusion, anger, sadness, joy, and serenity. Core emotions?

There was a meditation part that Yoda and the Jedi council took part in that was easily recognizable in meditation or prayer circles.

The writing in these episodes is excellent, the guidance of the light for Yoda facing his hubris is very well done.

That's all for now.