let me distract myself with shiny things

[pellucid]

Life has me in full-fledged panic mode, generally. So I respond by flapping my hands joyfully in the general direction of things that have nothing to do with the chief cause for panic.

For instance, there are already 111 people watching galpalficathon!!!!!!! EEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!! I'm so thrilled by the initial burst of interest, and I very much hope this will

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[beccatoria]

I will totally post about it if when I get around to rewatching.

And that's heartening to hear about B5. Londo and G'Kar are hands down the best things on that show, in my opinion. I think that Londo edges out G'Kar as my favourite, but only just and probably only because of the awesome accent (which isn't a mark against Andreas Katsulas because G'Kar's voice is one of the most wonderful choices about him: you know I love Farscape beyond the telling of it, but it would have been very easy to D'argo-ify G'Kar's voice and it...wouldn't have been right).

I hope you enjoy the review when you finally finish the series!

It says a lot of really, really interesting stuff, actually. And the reviewer is a huge Kira fan and devotes a "chapter" of her review just to her! One of the (non-spoilery) things I loved most is this -

It is so rare nowadays to come across a series (one that isn't a soap or a relationship drama, at any rate) that discusses the lives of adults as if they didn't inevitably tend towards entropy--all marriages broken, all health destroyed, all children ruined.

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Almost every one of the show's characters walks away from it diminished in one form or another, but unlike other series Deep Space Nine doesn't make a big to-do about this, and doesn't become consumed with angst and melodrama. While it is possible to ascribe this reserve to a failure to properly explore the ramifications of the ordeals the characters go through, yet another symptom of the famed Star Trek plasticity, I prefer to think of it as a sign of maturity. Almost none of Deep Space Nine's characters can be described as unambiguously tragic or triumphant. Most of them experience both, and the sum total of their experiences is, like most lives, an indeterminate mixture of the two.

I think that really...struck me. And I thought yes, that's why I don't think DS9 is like those "other Treks". It makes something of its genre, and while I wouldn't want it for all my fiction (see my love of Farscape and BSG), it's...oddly refreshing to see mundanity as something that is cherished rather than derided?

Anyway, I look forward to reading your thoughts as you continue through the series!