DS9 5x14-5x17

[kindkit]

Discussion is, as always, very welcome, but please don't mention any spoilers, even minor ones, for future developments. Thanks!

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[astrogirl2]

The reveal did make me roll my eyes a bit, because it takes a complex, enigmatic emotional situation and reduces it to something fairly banal.

It is a bit cliche, it's true, but in this particular instance, I seem to remember thinking it went a bit beyond banality into some moderately interesting character territory. I may be somewhat biased though, as I have lately come to realize that the gen, parent-child equivalent of UST is a huge story kink of mine, much more so than slash. :)

"I'd like to get my hands on that fellow Earl Grey and tell him a thing or two about tea leaves."

Ha! Yes. It's nice to know that I'm not the only one who feels that way about Earl Grey. :)

He and Bill Adama from Battlestar Galactica should have a beer together sometime.

Now, there's a Multiverse idea! :)

especially since Spock had to be genetically engineered--or did that only become canon with STXI?

It was often assumed by fans, but it was never canon in the original series.

Wow, this episode did everything I was hoping the show wouldn't do if

[kindkit]

the gen, parent-child equivalent of UST is a huge story kink of mine

*nods* I'm pretty much the opposite; I don't hate parent-child stories or anything, but I'm not all that into them.

It's nice to know that I'm not the only one who feels that way about Earl Grey.

I don't mind it as a tea, although it's not my favorite, but I hate it as a fanfic cliché!

And someday I hope to block "A Simple Investigation" out of my memory as well. Perhaps one of the cast's frequent trips to the mirrorverse will shift reality just enough so that none of it ever happened . . .

[astrogirl2]

Ordinary parent-child relationships don't do it for me, either. It's always the messed-up, thwarted, socially problematic ones. (Especially if they're not actually genetic relationships, apparently, but that may not be a necessary detail. Why my brain fixates on stuff like that, I'll never know. :)

I don't mind it as a tea, although it's not my favorite, but I hate it as a fanfic cliché!

I haven't seen it that much as a fanfic cliche, but I've never cared for it as a tea, nor been able to figure out why so many characters seem keen on it. :)

And someday I hope to block "A Simple Investigation" out of my memory as well.

Good luck! It is doable! :)

[kindkit]

Have you read John Le Carré? Some of his male characters have massively screwed-up relationships with their parents. I'd recommend The Naive and Sentimental Lover, Absolute Friends, and The Perfect Spy in that respect. But it is very manpainy and Le Carré has yet to write a believable female character in any of his books I've read.

As for Earl Grey, so many characters are keen on it because it's the only tea that non-tea-drinking writers can name!

[astrogirl2]

I haven't. I'm not at all sure whether I'd like his stuff or not, but maybe I'll give it a shot one of these days.