#ohmnomnom

While other members of the crew start to come around as they observe their “Captain’s” questionable behavior, no one is as sure of the truth and resolved to return Kirk to himself as Spock. Without external evidence, with the charge of mutiny, and with the sentence of death - Spock boldly stands by Kirk while others continue to hesitate and doubt.

There was no galaxy ending threat but the tension of this episode was completely worthy of a series finale & the bond featured in this episode between Kirk and Spock was such a wonderful ode to an absolutely iconic duo.

Spirk Bonus:

Would I make these arguments if this situation occurred in real life? HELL NO. but this is KINNPORSCHE we’re talking about. A drama about a bunch of badass MAFIA men. Truthfully, they took care to show more consent in this scene than I ever expected. Certainly more than MANY other BLs I’ve seen over time where one person would force themselves on another while the other party actively resisted. Or where one party forced themselves on the other while the latter was sleeping and unable to resist at all. I completely understand why many would find this scene in episode 4 uncomfortable and problematic but given the genre and the setting….I think this is about what should’ve been expected? Absolutely nothing about the promos for this drama led me to believe we’d be seeing a healthy relationship, that’s for sure. I came here expecting sexy times and fucked up but interesting dynamics.

While I know there’ll be a shit ton of enthusiastic consensual sex moving forward, I also expect we’ll see behavior a lot more problematic than this before the series ends. All I’m saying is, if this triggered you…Don’t expect the show to be more palatable moving forward.