Watching TOS: Jim Kirk's Terrible, Horrible, No-Good, Very Bad Week
Can't a guy catch a break?
The city on the edge of forever - YEESS
Love a time travel with an ethics dilemma intertwined in a personal one!!!
Jim manipulating Spock in the most blatant way possible, basically saying "Excuse me. I sometimes expect too much of you." like come on! and Spock still taking the bait
The clothes, the living together, Spock building his diy computer and being bitchy about it all the while
The music everytime Jim talks with Edith is SO MUCH
The ending is very fucking horrible, oh Jim 😭😭😭
This episode delivers!
GUARDIAN: As correct as possible for you. Your science knowledge is obviously primitive.
SPOCK: Really.
KIRK: Annoyed, Spock?
I'm snickering
You? At his side like you've always been and always will be
Gifted insight indeed!!!!!!!!!!!!! Oh my heart
Captain. Even when he doesn't say it, he does.
I'm WEAK
KIRK: Spock, I believe I'm in love with Edith Keeler.
SPOCK: Jim, Edith Keeler must die.
Why is he so dramatic over a woman he met a week ago i can'ttttt + everytime Spock calls him Jim it's something awful 😭
Side note: in the episode McCoy says he's "a surgeon, not a psychiatrist". But in Court Martial he's said to be "an expert in space psychology". I realize psychiatry =/= psychology, but ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Operation - Annihilate!
I liked the episode but the ending left me very frustrated.
Look, when you decide to kill part of your main character's family, you're saying the stakes are HIGH in this episode. And for the most part, we see just that.
Shatner and Nimoy's acting is very very good I love it
I love Jim like that, I can totally buy the limited show of emotion at his brother and sister-in-law's death bc that's his thing, we've seen him do it: he stays focused, he's all tense but still efficient, in control. Even when Bones has to remind him,
KIRK: Help them. I don't care what it takes or costs. You've got to help them.
MCCOY: Jim, aren't you forgetting something? There are over a million colonists on that planet down there, just as much your responsibility. They need your help, too.
That was good! That was high stakes both for Jim and his mission as captain!
Spock being attacked and in danger of dying adding to the urgency of the situation, yeah, that's great
Looove Spock in this, "Pain is a thing of the mind" and all that!!
"I am a Vulcan, I am a Vulcan. there is no pain." OH SPOCK
"I need you Spock, but we can't take any chances." Oh Jim
MCCOY: Captain, I understand your concern. Your affection for Spock, the fact that your nephew is the last survivor of your brother's family.
KIRK: No, no, Bones. There's more than two lives at stake here. I cannot let it spread beyond this colony, even if it means destroying a million people down there.
The way Jim, Spock and Bones look at one another when Spock decides to sacrifice himself (well Jim had decided to sacrifice him anw) - when he gets out and Jim grabs him -
SOMEONE HUG JIM FOR THE LOVE OF GOD
And then... Jim ready to SNAP it was so dramatic and funny when he goes BoOones
Now to the thing I liked the least:
In the last minutes, Jim is so relieved to have Spock back, the banter is fun but... No word of his nephew?? I suppose he's healed but why is there 0 talk or emotional scene about it? Why is the emotion only about Spock?
Why did they choose to end this episode in such a light-hearted way? There's no emotional pay-off to Jim's family being decimated! It is driving me crazy!! You'd think it was a pretty important plot point!!
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I'm saying his without checking the tag first but has anyone else pointed out the very big feeling of foreshadowing in today's episode? The fact that they're mentioning that folktale again? Talking about buying the beach and it being a parallel of the only place they can meet once a year? I feel like it could still go a different way, but I think it is foreshadowing.
Is this show gonna end with Neung being a CEO and Palm working at the island only meeting every so often?? P'Jojo are you gonna 3wbf this?????
Or might there be a twist in it and the one working at the beach is gonna be Neung? Or is this here to fool us into thinking that that's gonna be the end only for it to be both of them working at the beach, Nueng free from his CEO destiny enjoying helping tourists and stuff???
Which one is it P'Jojo????
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Record of Ragnarok
I can't begin to explain how much this anime has overtaken my life and I blame a friend of mine who suggested it by saying that I need to wait for season 2. The concept is clever, I see it as a big crossover of reality and mythology and I'm here for it. Although I would prefer to see female fighters too but anyway.
We binge-watched it in one night and at the end of episode 10 Heimdal announces Jack the Ripper! I was hooked already but baby now I live and breathe for it!!! My jaw fell to the floor and a few weeks later we watched Jack the Ripper VS Hercules and in my opinion, it's the best fight so far. It was so fucking clever! The first fight that showed Humanity can beat the Gods if they pull tricks on them.
Also, I will protect Jack with my life and his spin-off manga is just great! Translate faster people we need to know what's going on! His character is so interesting!
I mean look at him!!! How can't you love him?!
HOW??!!
I will protect little Jack with my life!!!!
HIS SMILE!!!! I CAN'T!!!!!
Also, Jeff Leach fucking killed it as the VA, he was perfect!
Hope we get to see more of Jack and I'm praying for an anime adaptation of his manga spin-off!
Jack the Ripper is my favourite mystery case of all time, it's a persona that had caught my interest since I was 12 years old and I became obsessed with any media that explained the case. It's my dream to go to London to visit the museum and the places the murders took place. Also I'm not glorifying anything, let me put this out there, but the case it's so interesting to me and I have read a lot about it. It's one of the biggest mystery case of the 19th century.
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