Nightowl

Please tell me it was Diablo or Command & Conquer: Red Alert.

Or Civ 2. I bet it was Civ 2.

It’ll be a Bashir-lite episode and the other hosts will be all “oh I wonder what Sid doing—“

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Season 5 Episode 06: “Trials and Tribble-ations”

This might genuinely be the most endearingly self-indulgent episode of television in history.

@queerhollyleaf

Can't decide if Julian would share it after the internment camp to argue that Tain was a terrible father, or if he'd realize it won't change Garak's mind on anything and it would just hurt him further in the midst of his grief.

Or maybe after DBIP he angrily explains the story as an argument that his own parents were wrong and they never should have augmented him. That for thousands of years humans have told this story and they should have known better.

These suck! Why have I encased my legs in this unforgiving fabric?? Why have I cursed myself with a fly??

To understand Anidala you must understand they are 100% freak4freak. They are both children who grew up too fast and are now in a secret relationship giggling like teenagers in their twenties. This is vital to them. Padme is not a flawless character or an idea of perfection, on the contrary she is a very human character who was put in charge of her people at fourteen, something that had a lasting impact on her, and so she is choosing her childhood joy and a fairytale romance over the red flags her husband is waving. She is the OG ‘I can fix him’ mentality. No one is doing it like her.

This girl was also manipulated and groomed by Palpatine, she was Mayor of a whole ass city at just 13, and was ruler of the whole damn planet during an invasion when she was 14! And then she led her people through the aftermath and clean up! This girl is an emotional disaster!

Padme and Anakin are BOTH disasters. But there tragedy is that they weren’t doomed. If they’d had slightly better support, if their society hadn’t set them up for failure, and if they’d made better choices, they could have grown and healed together. They could have made it work. They could have been a beautiful happy family.

Trektober Day 27: Domesticity. Your regular reminder that Cardassians flirt through squabbling, so the DS9 book club debates would likely come across as Gomez and Morticia Addams-level public romancing. I can't imagine that'd change much even after decades.