#TNGWatch #S01E04 #CodeOfHonor

Hold on to your butts, this episode’s gonna deal with sexism (and probably be racist at the same time).

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Man, every time Riker smiles, I feel like he’s trying to get into my pants.

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Okay, not as bad as the previous episodes, but still pretty bad. Why is this "primitive" alien race full of Black people who only value women for what they own? I mean, I think they were trying to teach the audience something, but I don’t think it worked out the way they wanted to, and was just cringey as hell. But hey, at least The Boy got to man the conn again.

As a kid, I remember wanting to be the The Boy. I was 4 or 5 when TNG first premiered, and I watched it with my mom (along with episodes of OG Trek), and I thought it was so cool to be a kid on the Enterprise. Then I got older and watched a lot more episodes of TNG and just hated The Boy for being way more important than he should have been. My annoyance at this character will only grow as his importance on the show grows, fair warning.

Also, where’s O’Brien? He appeared nameless in Farpoint, but hasn’t shown up since. What’s up with that? This show needs more Miles!

#TNGWatch #S01E03 #TheNakedNow

Hey! This is the one where they all get high! I don’t think I’ve actually seen this one before.

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Stop backseat doctoring, Riker!

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Holy shit, this episode. Pretty much everybody was high. Crusher macks on Picard (who basically macks right back), Troi macks on Riker, and Tasha Yar outright seduces Data (and talks about escaping rape gangs O_O WTF). It was basically a really weird softcore porn episode. This was worse than Farpoint! I seriously question the wisdom of the TV execs that greenlit this show on the strength of these early episodes. And to all those people complaining about how Discovery wasn’t “real” Star Trek? Mothafuckas, please. Watch this shit again and thank your lucky stars Discovery was so fucking good in its first season.

#TNGWatch #S01E01E02 #EncounterAtFairpoint

The girl and I have decided to start rewatching Star Trek: The Next Generation in chronological order because it turns out neither one of us has! Also, we’ve probably not watched every single episode thanks to syndication and what not. We’re calling it TNGWatch! We’re like five minutes into “Encounter at Farpoint”, and I already got comments :P

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Ahhhh! Naked Face Riker! Ahhhh!

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Man, Picard is super grumpy in this episode! He’s snapping at everybody.

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Space Jellyfish in Love!

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Okay, so this... this is not a good episode. I have no idea how TV execs saw this and went, "Yes! Okay! Let's do this!" Besides the awful writing and incredibly stilted acting from pretty much everyone involved, every character also feels really weird because I know what they eventually become. The main culprits are Grumpy Picard and Emotional Troi, but Naked Riker, Timid Crusher, and Submissive Worf also feel really weird. But hey, at least we still have The Boy and soon-to-be-dead Tasha Yar :P

I had also completely forgotten that the Enterprise-D could split into two different components.

About the only plus in this episode is Q, who is like my annoying ex-boyfriend whom I can't help but still be somewhat attracted to. And also the giant space jellyfish in love because love conquers all, dammit.

Video Game Round-Up! - July/August 2018

Thanks to a recent medical issue (everything’s fine now and I’m back at work), I had to work from home for about two weeks. While a bit annoying because I couldn’t go out and do stuff, it did give me more time to play video games (before and after work when I would normally be on my commute, and during my lunch hour). And I played a lot of video games.

I want to talk about them because I like talking about the things I read, watch, and play.

Some of these games I played before my two weeks of forced hermitry, but I put them in anyway for funsies. So this list encompasses about a month’s worth of video games, and here they are in (mostly) chronological order.

Quickfire E3 Press Conference Impressions

Like the title says, and in somewhat chronological order. Let’s go!

10 Thoughts/Questions: American Gods

Since finishing our massive Running Man marathon, we’ve been catching up on a fair amount of American television. Most of it has been stuff I haven’t felt a particular need to write about. You know, the usual network sitcoms and procedurals, and occasional sitcom procedurals (shout out to Brooklyn Nine-Nine!). But then we started watching the eight-episode American Gods, and oh man I knew I was going to have to write about it (ps: how much am I loving eight-episode seasons? a whole bunch, you guys). But this one’s a bit weird because it’s based on a book that I thoroughly love, which itself references much, much older stories that I also thoroughly love. Other shows I’ve written about have also been based on or referenced pre-existing things (like every Netflix Marvel show and Stranger Things, for example), but myths and legends have been a part of my life for even longer than comics and 80s films have. So strap yourselves in because this one’s going to be a bit more personal than usual.

Major spoilers for the first season of the show and minor spoilers for the novel it’s based on, which possibly means minor spoilers for upcoming seasons of the show (plus, some spoilers for some myths and legends, but those have existed for literally thousands of years, so if I spoil those for you, that's on you, not me).

(FYI: I will be using the words “story” and “myth” interchangeably in this entire write-up.)

10 Thoughts/Questions: Reply 1988

Reply 1988 is the best Korean drama I’ve seen yet, and one of the best shows I’ve ever seen full-stop. This was truly an all-around excellent show. I had my gripes, certainly (and I'll go into them later), but they didn't detract enough from the excellent writing, the excellent staging, and the excellent performances. This show is just as a good as Luther or Stranger Things (while being nothing like them at all), and I would recommend it to everybody who likes just really good television.