I'm still not quite coherent after this week of mind-wrecking tv but I need to vent things and since that's what this place is for...
Just to be on the safe side I'll put this after a cut for any stumbling in Americans that are waiting for BBC America's broadcast starting July 20th. In short, I loved the series as a whole, well written, well acted, well directed, easily 4 out of 5 stars. I just have some minor issues and one major issue that ruined everything for me.

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I've decided to also start posting quotes and memorable lines I pick up here and there to add some variation to the numerous book and meme posts I've been making. I'll start it off with some Deep Space Nine stuff. I've been watching season 5 over the last few days (I got the dvd sets of season 5 and 7 late last year) and the last two episodes of season 5 tonight.



Star Trek: Deep Space Nine 5.25: "In the Cards"

Dr. Giger (going on about the people opposing his research): soulless minions of orthodoxy

At the end of the episode:

Nog: Lions and Gigers and bears.
Jake: Oh my.

This line is so much fun :D All three things actually refer back to things in the episode: Giger obviously to the character of Dr. Giger, lion to Jake saying they were going to beard the lion in its den and the bear to Julian's teddy bear they have to retrieve.

The episode has so many more funny bits but most of them don't really make sense unless you've seen it so I'll keep it at this.


Star Trek: Deep Space Nine 5.26: "Call to Arms"

Rom (to Captain Sisko about his wedding to Leeta): Would you marry me... I mean us? I mean... would you perform our wedding ceremony?

Garak (to Odo): You're an island of tranquility in an ocean of chaos.

Dukat (to Weyoun): I've found it wise never to underestimate the Federation's technical skill or Captain Sisko's resourcefulness.

I'm an introverted person, I don't show my emotions easily. The one thing I almost never do is cry. Not when there's people around and even when I'm alone, I rarely do so. And, just as some people get emotional with the tv easily, I've never had that, at all. Until, apparently, I became an adult. Now, that doesn't mean I now suddenly start bawling at every remotely emotional thing, it has to be something big. Like people dying. And then only when they're characters I love deeply, or it affects characters I love deeply. For the longest time, my tv-crying was limited to one moment only. That being the death of Claire McLeod in the season 3 finale of the Australian drama McLeod's Daughters. And then, a few months ago, I finally saw Stargate Atlantis season 3 which featured the death of Dr. Beckett.

And, as I said, I don't show my emotions easily and I hoped it would stay with that. Of course, that was an idle hope, shattered when I saw the season finale of House yesterday.

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