Today's post comes to you today by the letter P. As in my son swallowed a penny and freaked us out a little.
We've told him before not to stick stuff like that in his mouth but I guess today was one of those days where the three year old brain decided to say 'screw it, imma put this in mah mouf.' See, we aren't even 100% certain that he did actually swallow ol' Abe. He may have been just saying stuff and then we primed him with questions. So now we have to check his poo....
*jazz hands* GLAMOUR.
We are re-watching DS9, like you do, and I've been thinking about what the show did right and where it hit the wall with some random unneeded weirdness. Last night we watched the first half of the episode which introduced the Defiant. 2nd season, 1st episode. The Dominion is weighing heavy on all of their thoughts and the crew is going over different battle scenarios when The Defiant de-cloaks and we get treated to a Romulan being a stereotypical Romulan.
The part that struck me and stuck with me in the episode though comes when Jake and Commander Sisko are getting re-settled and they talk about how the station has become home. They take the time to show the two pulling their comfort items close and settling in. Despite the looming problems with The Dominion, Jake has his spice pudding, Ben unpacks his collection of ancient African art. It is a good touch and it helped to deepen one of the already best elements of the show. Jake and his father have a fantastic relationship and just this small scene of them settling back into their home is just about perfect.
Contrast this with say, Voyager. This show had a promising concept but took so little time to actually develop the characters or really explore the situation they were in. It was more of a monster of the week than a possible look at what people could do when faced with what would be a horrible problem. They might never get home. They barely touched upon it in a few episodes (Year of Hell would have been great had it stayed in the timeline). At least Voyager broke a couple of Star Trek ideas by having a Vulcan security chief and a Klingon engineer.
This is what I do, examine the stories of decades old television shows whilst waiting for my son to play slot machine.... Hrm.
We've told him before not to stick stuff like that in his mouth but I guess today was one of those days where the three year old brain decided to say 'screw it, imma put this in mah mouf.' See, we aren't even 100% certain that he did actually swallow ol' Abe. He may have been just saying stuff and then we primed him with questions. So now we have to check his poo....
*jazz hands* GLAMOUR.
We are re-watching DS9, like you do, and I've been thinking about what the show did right and where it hit the wall with some random unneeded weirdness. Last night we watched the first half of the episode which introduced the Defiant. 2nd season, 1st episode. The Dominion is weighing heavy on all of their thoughts and the crew is going over different battle scenarios when The Defiant de-cloaks and we get treated to a Romulan being a stereotypical Romulan.
The part that struck me and stuck with me in the episode though comes when Jake and Commander Sisko are getting re-settled and they talk about how the station has become home. They take the time to show the two pulling their comfort items close and settling in. Despite the looming problems with The Dominion, Jake has his spice pudding, Ben unpacks his collection of ancient African art. It is a good touch and it helped to deepen one of the already best elements of the show. Jake and his father have a fantastic relationship and just this small scene of them settling back into their home is just about perfect.
Contrast this with say, Voyager. This show had a promising concept but took so little time to actually develop the characters or really explore the situation they were in. It was more of a monster of the week than a possible look at what people could do when faced with what would be a horrible problem. They might never get home. They barely touched upon it in a few episodes (Year of Hell would have been great had it stayed in the timeline). At least Voyager broke a couple of Star Trek ideas by having a Vulcan security chief and a Klingon engineer.
This is what I do, examine the stories of decades old television shows whilst waiting for my son to play slot machine.... Hrm.
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