#and i’ve been watching since s2…….seeing them married is still so surreal and emotional for me

[sambergscott]

Warning that this might not be the most positive ask unfortunately... I might be alone in this but I can’t stop thinking about how odd Jake and Amy’s dynamic seems this season. There are just so many jokes at the expense of their relationship now. There always have been but there were also a lot of cute and reaffirming moments about how much they both love each other to balance the jokes out. But this season seems to be only jokes about how Jake thinks Amy loves numbers more than him and Amy worrying that Jake will backslide and ruin their marriage? Balancing was a great episode because it’s a classic storyline about Jake and Amy trying to support each other’s goals despite other things getting in the way. That’s the dynamic that I love from them. But mostly every other episode makes it seem like Amy is just annoyed by Jake’s existence. You don’t have to post this publicly because I don’t want to be negative during the final season... which I otherwise love... but idk I don’t really like what’s happening to Jake and Amy. Maybe they’re saving a big moment for the finale but idk. I’m hoping you disagree with me because I need someone to talk me out of this. I hate feeling this way about my fav couple.

i couldn’t disagree more lol !! did you not see last nights episode?????????? that end scene was the cutest thing ive ever seen in my life??????? and jake and amy being so secure in their marriage that THEY’RE the ones now giving out advice. that’s everything i’ve ever wanted. but also my definition of cute moments is so small. seeing amy ring him at the end of the day while she tidies up their kid’s toys? outstanding incredible the best thing i’ve ever seen. literally just referring to each other as husband and wife. bc oh my god they’re husband and wife!!!!!! WEDDING RINGS.

i don’t know what expectations you had going into this season but maybe, lower them. or at least adjust them. i kept seeing all this talk about jake and amy buying a house. or having a 2nd kid. and while we may still get references to that in the finale, they’ve literally had 10 episodes. and police reform has rightfully dominated almost all of them. thats what people wanted from this season so thats what theyre doing.

also……….jake and amy’s storyline is essentially over. unless you wanted them to bring up more conflict (which…..why would you) this is what being happy and married and settled is. they love each other (so much!) they have an adorable kid they go home to each other every night to watch property brothers and fall asleep by 10. i would’ve hated if they’d gone down the holt-kevin route for jake and amy this season and you know you would as well! and since they can’t do balancing parenting episodes every week people would start to say amy resents her kid 🙄 i’m actually really loving jake and amy supporting each other’s careers. they’ve both grown up so much and its everything ❤️ (also its a sitcom ofc theres going to be jokes lol they’re literally throwaway lines it means nothing)

and as for this “amy is annoyed by jake’s presence” bit i……..have no words. i never understand why people say this. melissa’s heart eyes are as powerful as andy’s. she’s constantly getting as close to him as possible. and amy licherally pedalled her heart out to get to jake in the set up!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

#i think thats all i have to say #i have no idea if this is coherent but like……….pls just lower your expectations #you don’t need big sweeping romantic moments to show the beauty of their relationship #nor are we going to get a rain kiss style moment from them #andy and mel have young kids. it’s not going to happen #and i’ve been watching since s2…….seeing them married is still so surreal and emotional for me #i don’t need anything more! #niamh answers

[calliecat93]

ST: TNG S7 Watchthrough Episodes 6-9

Phantasms: Remember back in Birthright when Data unlocked the ability to dream? Well they finaly brought that development back, but he’s now having nightmares and he can’t piece together why. So… that was wild. It was a mix of hilarious and utterly freaky. Data’s dreams were absurd such as imagining Troi as a cake (with mint frosting) but the way that it was portrayed and with the music? It’s somehow unsettling. Especially when the lines appear to blur and he outright stabs Troi. It was a fun one to watch, especially with scenes like Data asking Worf to take care of Spot for him. It wasn’t perfect, like there’s this subplot with a girl who has a crush on Geordi that goes nowhere. At least it’s not him hopelessly pinning for one. But yeah these kinds of episodes can be hard to do since it’s easy for the surrealism to be too much, but I think they did it well here with making it funny, absurd, and uncomfortable all at once. Add that with some genuine funny moments and you got a solid episode~! 4/5.

Dark Page: It is Lwaxana time for what I assume is the final time. We got a break from her last season, but I’ve made it no secret that I am NOT a fan of her episodes. While I have grown to like Lwaxana herself more than in her first two episodes, the episodes involving her have either been subpar (mainly her first two, her third and fifth were better as far as her character went but I don’t like the plots) or had subject matter that I disagree with (Half a Life). So her final episode? I can safely say that this is by far her best episode. They focus it on her relationship with Deanna. During a diplomatic matter involving telepathy, Lwaxana begins to add erratic (more than usual) and ends up comatose. When Troi enters her mind to help her mother mend the damage with help from the telepaths, she discovers a deeply buried family secret. I won’t give said secret away, but it is utterly heartbreaking. This is what they have needed for both Troi AND Lwaxana for a VERY long time. While we saw enough to know they they loved each other (Troi’s frustrations with her mother being herself aside), they NEVER did anything focusing on that relationship. Maybe the first episode… but forcing your daughter into a marriage may not be the best first impression. Lwaxana clearly wants Troi happy and what’s best for her, to her daughter’s agitation… and let’s just say that this episodes goes a LOOOONG way in showing why and explaining a lot about how he treats Troi. It also allows some emotional moments for Troi, such as encountering her father in her mother’s mind and facing the very real possibility of losing her mother just as she did her daddy. It was such a sad but lovely episode. As I said, it is the best Lwaxana episode by far and perfectly did what was looooong overdue for both mother and daughter. 5/5.

Attached: Picard and Crusher get kidnapped during transport and hooked up to implants that link together their minds. It is through this link that they recognize and are forced to confront the lingering feelings that they have had for each other. So… yeah I’m just gonna say it now, I NEVER understood Picard and Crusher as a ship. If others like it but nothing about their relationship EVER screamed ‘romantic’ to me at least since Crusher came back in S3, and the few times they kind of implied something either felt forced (The Naked Now) or just went nowhere. Whatever potential there may have been died after Crusher left in S2 and them trying to reignite it clearly didn’t work and more or less dropped. I like them as close friends considering their history, but revelations like Picard has had feelings for Crusher even while she was married to his best friend… while I appreciate that he didn’t let jealousy take over and the overall mature discussion about it, I find that VERY hard to believe. Plus nothing ever came out in episodes where they had love interests. Crusher didn’t seem to mind Vash, Picard didn’t mind her Trill ambassador lover. At least Riker and Troi had a past relationship and while they also don’t mind each others various love interests, it’s because they were together and moved on despite some lingering feelings that help that work. It makes them come across better as a result. Picard/Crusher… I’m sorry, I don’t see it. I like the concept and overall it’s fine, it could have been much worst. Riker was great and as I said, I do like the general relationship between Picard and Crusher and seeing them working together was fun. Them deciding to remain friends at the end is imo the most proper conclusion, albeit forced in how they did it but still. I just think it would have worked better with another pairing or dynamic (probably a more complicated, vitriolic one like Pulaski and Data had Pulaski stuck around), or at least it would have been better without the romanic angle that had long stopped mattering. 3/5.

Force of Nature: Today’s Moral of the Day is environmentalism! So while dealing with issues, two alien scientists appear and tell the crew that they are killing them and their planet due to their warp drive. So... this wasn’t very good. Not because of the environmental message, if anything considering climate change and everything I’d say it’s more important than ever to hammer the message into people’s heads. But not only is the message heavy-handed and come in way too late (the first episode focuses more on Data trying to train Spot), but the payoff is that limits get made to the warp drive... and I get the feeling that this will NOT stick in DS9, Voyager, or even the rest of TNG. They just did not deliver the message well especially since as I said, the first half was all fluff and the issue just came in out of nowhere. It reminds me of that S1 episode involving drugs, but I can forgive that as it was Season One and thus they were still working everything out. We’re on S7 now and they’ve done good episodes that deliver hard messages like The Drumhead, so it’s much harder to excuse this time. I appreciate what they were trying to do, again we need this message especially now and in a vacuum the message works. But the execution and Status Quo is God causes the episode to be below average and ultimately not matter. And if people don’t care for what happens in the episode, they’re not going to care about the message. If I want environmental ST-related media, I’ll watch The Voyage Home since they got the message across while being incredibly fun and entertaining. The Spot antics, while pointless, were fun though so thank you Spot~! 1/5.

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