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I watched Enterprise's The Seventh, which made me watch DS9's In The Pale Moonlight which is omfg SO FUCKING GOOD. Good like Curse of Fenric or the one in Angel where Wes steals the baby. Only minor confusion is that I'm fairly sure the Romulans knew Vreenak was on the station, because it's not that convincing that the Tal Shiar wouldn't keep track of their own high-ups. And it does rely on him not informing anyone for two days, which may be pushing it a bit. But still, OMFG!
Anywho, The Seventh which I hadn't actually seen properly before. I think I'd had it on the background and it really needs attention to work.
I felt really scarily aware of how much Blalock was earning her pay compared to Bakula, who is perfectly fine for most things, but so totally not in her league. Since Trineer is there's a damn good reason to be grateful they went for Trip/T'Pol rather than Archer/T'Pol.
In The Pale Moonlight is good because there is no B-plot to distract from the actual plot, but The Seventh has The Adventures Of captain Trip, which is good for one joke and sort of backfires to make him look thick. (Dude, you should probably ask if the virus is VERY BAD, yo.) Err, yeah.
I really really liked this one, though, up until the ending. Then we find out that he was guilty after all, and that T'Pol should just forget the whole thing ever happened. And I was like "Omgwtf?! You set it up to make T'Pol guilt-ridden about killing someone without knowing if he was a danger at the time and you just FORGET ABOUT IT?! WTF?!" and cos... I'd've liked not to know if the seventh guy was actually guilty. It felt a bit like a cop-out to set up the entire plot of uncertainty and possible shadiness and then tear it all down at the end. It saddened I by making it a lot more generic than it should have been.
And omfg, my fandom totally fucking lied to bring your fandom into the war. And it can live with it.
Anywho, The Seventh which I hadn't actually seen properly before. I think I'd had it on the background and it really needs attention to work.
I felt really scarily aware of how much Blalock was earning her pay compared to Bakula, who is perfectly fine for most things, but so totally not in her league. Since Trineer is there's a damn good reason to be grateful they went for Trip/T'Pol rather than Archer/T'Pol.
In The Pale Moonlight is good because there is no B-plot to distract from the actual plot, but The Seventh has The Adventures Of captain Trip, which is good for one joke and sort of backfires to make him look thick. (Dude, you should probably ask if the virus is VERY BAD, yo.) Err, yeah.
I really really liked this one, though, up until the ending. Then we find out that he was guilty after all, and that T'Pol should just forget the whole thing ever happened. And I was like "Omgwtf?! You set it up to make T'Pol guilt-ridden about killing someone without knowing if he was a danger at the time and you just FORGET ABOUT IT?! WTF?!" and cos... I'd've liked not to know if the seventh guy was actually guilty. It felt a bit like a cop-out to set up the entire plot of uncertainty and possible shadiness and then tear it all down at the end. It saddened I by making it a lot more generic than it should have been.
And omfg, my fandom totally fucking lied to bring your fandom into the war. And it can live with it.