All of my mom's previous cell phones that she still owns. Remember back when service providers would stamp their logo on your phone? what cruelty was that? just another reminder that you were locked into their contract I guess.
Have we considered that Omega’s enhanced ability isn’t force sensitivity or anything like that but is in fact to be the cutest, bravest, smartest girl in the entire galaxy? Have you ever thought that maybe she is just here to be wonderful to the people around her? To bring joy into their lives? To bring colour into an otherwise greyscale galaxy? Maybe Nala Se found the delightfulness gene and turned it up by 10000%. That is an ability she has been very open and unapologetic about expressing.
So with the new season of the Bad Batch coming out I see so many people saying that they've started to take an interest because of the darker tone and that they're only starting to tolerate Omega now because of her having more plot relevance whereas before she was just a kid, and yes, maybe she was just a kid, but that's the point. That journey she's been through is so important to her story as a whole, you have to start somewhere.
I felt the same about the other characters that got a lot of hate too, I didn’t feel annoyed by Ahsoka through the early seasons of the Clone Wars or Ezra through the first few seasons of Rebels. I really liked seeing them reach their full potential but it only hits like it does because you've been with them right from the start. Seeing them grow as characters is one of the best parts of all three of the shows for me, because you're really proud of them by the end of it. I love the bad batch not just because of the plot but because of being able to follow each of their stories from the beginning and I can't wait to see where season three goes from here (I remain delusional it'll end well for all of them, one can only hope)
When Steam Powered Giraffe said “and together we’re not alone across the stars” they were actually specifically talking about RWD and the old and new crews of the Per Aspera and the Holodeck and MR-SN. I know because they told me themselves
i'm not super into star trek novels and the beta canon and whatnot but i'm so glad that i read Last Best Hope because it really makes Picard s1 infinitely better on rewatch (and i say this as a Picard enjoyer/defender). like 100% recommend if you're even a little bit interested in Picard era worldbuilding.
oh, yeah, another thing i noticed that was odd about s5 in comparison to earlier seasons was how much they relied on like. not the history of the doctor, exactly, but the image of that history. whether from little easter eggs of the first doctor’s picture popping up everywhere to i think the two(?) times in the season we get a montage of past doctors. and i honestly can’t remember anything like that happening earlier (with the exception of the time crash short, which felt more substantial to me and was also like. 7 straight minutes of david tennant being allowed to fangirl.)
and i say ‘the image’ because hell knows the RTD era was pulling from doctor who past left, right, and center, but it rarely felt like a moment of ‘look at this old thing, you remember old thing? old thing was cool and so are we for continuing it.’ and more like ‘here’s a species/character/etc from classic who. and here’s how they’ve changed and fit into the new world we’ve built for the show.’
I guess, the difference here for me is that. i haven’t watched classic who. s5 shows me a slideshow of doctors and to me, those are the guys i once ranked by how sexy i think they are. and not much else. i don’t have an emotional connection to an image. but take, say, school reunion? an episode that was my favorite even back when i was a kid specifically because i adored sarah jane? i had no idea who she was then, i only just figured out a little bit ago which doctor she traveled with, and exclusively all i’ve watched of her is that episode in s2 and the sarah jane adventures. and yet, that episode, without the context there for me, managed to make sense to me. i’m sure it was probably even more impactful to fans of sarah jane from classic who, but it didn’t lose its impact without that knowledge.
so, that’s a shift. i don’t want to say it’s a negative one, exactly, because maybe people who have seen classic who like these references and i’m missing something. but, to me, it feels a little more shallow.
narvin and romana in tw2 is like. they've lost everything and they just keep losing. they're fighting but for what. they'd die for gallifrey but gallifrey isn't worth dying for. and, after everything, they choose to stand together. as they always have. as they always will