The Union man
The arc of the first episode with the Gorn was Kirk realizing they're not evil space monsters but an intelligent spacefaring race acting reasonably to a intrusion into their territory, and anyway fifty-five years later they ran with "no, the Gorn ARE irredeemably evil space monsters actually"
Anyway someone on Twitter said there was a interview with the showrunner of SNW where he says "The Gorn are monsters, they're not analogs for anything" and that's why they're interesting and I Regret To Inform you it's real
"That's a view of the universe that shouldn't be discarded". But. It is discarded. The entire point of "Arena" is that it's a wrong view of the universe that should be discarded. This is literally the moral of the episode. It is told to you directly. The entire point of the episode is that Kirk overcomes his xenophobia and refuses to kill the Gorn and The Guy In Charge of Star Trek missed that so hard he became "obsessed" with how the Gorn could be pure evil
Absolute peak "No Meaning, Only Lore"
I've seen people say he means on a "character" level, that everyone sees the Gorn as evil but. Setting aside how Starfleet shouldn't even know what the Gorn are in SNW, how on earth does making them knock-off xenomorphs set up a ending where they're shown mercy. It's not like there's just "rumors" of them being evil that can be shown to be false. They're now canonically slavers who lay their eggs in other people's bodies since, well, they're knock-off xenomorphs
this photo is so funny to me it has the energy of an overenthusiastic child hugging the family pet who isn’t so sure about this whole deal
Stamets' Boss 😌
Field promote that bug immediately
DOUBLE THAT! History made twice!
J. Harrison Ghee is the SECOND non-binary actor to win a Tony for Best Lead Actor in a Musical! So happy for them!
aight fuckers I’m doing it I’m spending a full $4 to watch the first lotr movie, for the first time
so like I get, you know, power and malice and cruelty were ‘poured’ into the rings, but like. what did they actually put in those things. what fuckin gold gives a ring malice. why did the elves only get three.
holy shit it’s Agent Smith with pointy ears
this ring was made of weet-bix and nutri grain
it was in this moment, when all hope was lost, that issieldor-whoever took up his father’s sword -
I’M SORRY BUT I’M LAUGHING THE RING GIVES THE BIG BAD GUY LIKE DARK MAGIC AND A DEMON ARMY TO CONTROL BUT EESEELDOOR PUTS IT ON AND HE JUST TURNS INVISIBLE
holy shit I just experienced seven and a half minutes of introductory exposition by a mysterious lady who apparently thinks VERY little of hobbits
omg is this WHOLE movie exposition
it has been remarked by some that a hobbit’s only real passion
is for food
FOOD
a wizard is never late
says Ian McKellan, wishing he was Julie Andrews, Queen of Genovia
I know absolutely nothing about either of these two but I already fucking love their relationship it’s beautiful
OH SO BILBO’S THE FUCK THAT CAUSED ALL THOSE JUMP SCARES
oh shit son he’s got the ring and the golem voice
okay so that’s pretty fucking cute
apparently every hobbit has an instinctual urge to hug Ian McKellen and honestly? same
siancrosslinisback
Watching OP stumble ass over teakettle in love with this movie is amazing and these posts made my week
Rainbow flag colorpicked from the original 1978 flag <3
this is my favorite of all the rainbow flags because a) the stripes mean things: sex, life, healing, sunlight, nature, magic, harmony, and spirit. Sex (hot pink) and magic (turquoise) were more difficult colors to get which is why the standard flag is six colors, but those are my favorite colors! Both as colors and as meanings!
and b) we know for a stone cold fact that Gilbert Baker meant this flag to be for Everybody In The Family, which has gotten a little lost in the emphasis on individual flags for different identities, to the point where some people are starting to think the six-color rainbow is only for gay men
anyway thank you this was nice to see on a Monday, hello beautiful
Lost DS9 season 8 episode plot : Quark becomes a rainbow capitalist
And we wouldn’t wan’t to disrespect tradition, would we ?
Nie Huaisang, setting aside a full 1/3 of the Unclean Realm’s operating budget to construct an elaborate aviary: 💚 self-care ☺️🦜🫶
Viggo Mortensen and Uraeus on the set of Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
Shittiest Father: Star Trek Edition
#richard bashir is missing tho That's a fair point: there's a cap on poll options and there is the 'other' tag, but having just rewatched the episode I'm surprised he slipped my mind. Probably would swap him out with Kyle.
You put BENJAMIN LAFAYETTE SISKO on the WORST FATHER'S POLL?!
Oh!
Oh!
Jail for OP!
Jail for One Thousand Years!!
Back on my star trek brainroot.
It started out as just some Odos drawings, but it's hard to keep Quark out of the pictureq
THE UNTAMED Episode 44
time for another round of keyboard smashing at the knowledge that these actors are the same age one of these characters is an ADULT and he is IN CHARGE of this absolute BABY TEENAGER i stg absolutely no one can match Wang Zhuocheng in this cast for playing baby JC and grown up JC so convincingly as different ages like yeah the makeup and costuming helps but it’s mostly body language and attitude! - via cerusee
Too Online For Regular Friendships IRL, But Not Online Enough For Discord Friend Groups
this doesn’t have a fake answer and i know earnest polls get reblogged less. but uh…… what if i ask nicely.
DS9 sequel from the makers of Picard season 3
- Sisko's second child is a Rosemary's Baby-type deal reincarnating Dukat's soul
- Jake, contrary to his entire character arc, has enlisted in Starfleet, because of course he has
- Sisko keeps saying "I can live with it," like it's his catch phrase
- Bajor gets occupied again just so that our heroes need to return to the same jobs that they had 30 years ago
- Kira has retired from military life (she comes back)
- Bashir and Garak spend 55 seconds of cumulative time onscreen together across the whole ten-episode season
- Somehow, Jadzia comes back to life; Ezri just disappears from the plot and nobody mentions her
- Quips(TM), including a fourth-wall breaking laugh line about how "O'Brien must suffer"
- Julian calls Section 31 "A critical division of Starfleet Intelligence"
- Rom, Morn, Ishka, Cretak, and Martok all come back (only to be killed)
- There's one good episode that actually pays of Tom Riker's plot from "Defiant" (and then he dies)
The plot is that they need to find some kind of, like, magic sword that's the only thing that can kill a Pah'Wraith.
Just assuming old people will be a small percentage. I will redo if I am wrong.