prose & passion

Samantha. 30+. Southern California.

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Begging Big Finish to release an Arcade Tardis ambient track, because serious shit was going down in Resistance and all I could think about was how soothing the combination of Tardis sounds with intermittent video game beeps and boops was.

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I hate that the one thing I was most looking forward to in Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale left such a bad taste in my mouth that it may have spoiled a movie I otherwise loved.

I was prepared for Molesley to make a fool of himself, because the movies have always prioritized comic relief over character for him, but it usually comes from a place of harmless over-excitement.

But his delusions of grandeur here are coming at the expense of Baxter’s feelings of self-worth - the whole “I’M a servant” “well I told you you didn’t have to be anymore” bit made me so uncomfortable, and the movie doesn’t have time for him to offer anything more than “I’ll try to be more grateful for what I have” as an apology or statement of his love and respect for her.

Heaven forbid we had cut the gag about him being a terrible driver, we could have had that amount of screentime to devote to something that felt like an appropriate resolution.

Anyway, I welcome any takes on this that will make me feel better about it. Maybe I’m overreacting. I still loved the movie for the great stuff we got with Isobel and Edith (and Bertie!).

[da-scenes]

From the latest TV spot

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Thinking so much on this day and every day about the parallel in A New Era between "Her love, her beauty have saved him. She takes his hand and they walk away, together. The end." and Baxley ending the movie walking hand in hand.

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Me two weeks ago: I’m not expecting much Baxter in the new promotional material, but it’ll be enough just to see a shot of her with her wedding ring on.

The Downton Abbey promotional department today: [drop this single close up shot of her where she’s covering her left hand]

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Saw kind of dropped the puzzle piece symbolism early on in the series, but I keep thinking about it as a metaphor for John and Amanda’s relationship. A father missing a living child and a daughter missing a loving father, two puzzle pieces that should fit perfectly together but can’t in any healthy way, and whose insistence on sticking together despite all the warnings signs causes irreparable damage not only to themselves but to the other puzzle pieces in the larger puzzle of humanity.

[bellamuertes]

this was your test, your game...

[strawberisapphic]

everyone has a ship thats just: theyre perfect. they hate each other. theyre married. they havent spoken in 15 years. they have date nights three times a week. theyre divorced. theyre pining, its unrequited. its requited. theyre starcrossed. theyre meant to be. theyre doomed by the narrative. they love each other. theyve never held hands. they wont stop making out at parties. they cant look each other in the eye

[rosalie-starfall]

Picard/Crusher Family

Star Trek: Picard - The Last Generation

[smileyobrien]

shut up this was so cute 🥹

[brosephine-grant]

This was adorable, but I’m also so curious what decision making process went into picking that picture lol. I would have loved this one, which would have made sense as an in-universe picture taken of wedding guests and would be from around the time when they were together/Jack was conceived:

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MY POST-SERIES HEADCANONS (1/?)

1. Picard shows up to Beverly’s new home on Earth with a housewarming gift of things he’d had boxed up at the Château to help make up for what she lost on the Eleos. Not only mementos of their relationship (like the photo she passes on to Jack that he takes with him), but souvenirs from his friendship with the first Jack Crusher, his invitation to Jack and Beverly’s wedding, photos of the three of them together, baby pictures they’d sent out for Wesley’s birth and first milestones, and programs of the different plays she’d had the Enterprise crew do. He hadn’t been able to bring himself to look at them after her disappearance, but unboxing it all in her living room with her as they share the story of each item with their son, they finally become happy memories again.

2. Picard becomes super excited about celebrating Jack’s birthday for the first time, and it ends up turning into a massive party with not only the Picard S3 characters, but all of the extended friends and family that weren’t able to be part of this adventure.

3. Kestra’s life on Nepenthe leads her to a Starfleet career studying the natural healing potentials of unexplored worlds and undiscovered plant life, and her Aunt Beverly becomes her mentor.

4. Beverly’s time as a civilian doctor leads to a massive overhaul in the way medical care and humanitarian aid is distributed by the Federation after she becomes head of Starfleet Medical.

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Star Trek: Legacy series ft. Jack Crusher < Star Trek: Prodigy episode where the kids meet actual Beverly Crusher, and while she’s helping them Do Science she asks them to watch little Jack and hijinks ensue.

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Posting this pre-finale in the hopes that it will somehow trigger the finale to make me eat my words, but: how fitting would it be if we get the S3 DVD and discover in the deleted scenes that there was a whole subplot of Picard and Beverly dealing with the change in their relationship and finding a way back to supportive lifelong friendship that got cut a la Nemesis?

[driftwoodthrone]

You were always in my heart when it mattered.

STAR TREK: PICARD S03E08 “Surrender”

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Posted this in response to a Borg big-bad theory post on Reddit and thought I’d put it here as well, as a thought to how the “William Scully” worries a lot of us are having could be thematically flipped:

There’s the theory that Jack is a “changeling” in the traditional sense of a child replaced by an imposter, and not really Picard/Beverly’s naturally conceived child, but I love the idea that it’s reversed. The Borg had a plan for a Locutus/Borg Queen child with organic Borg DNA or whatever, but Picard’s altered DNA ended up creating Jack with Beverly instead, and Jack is the changeling in the Borg’s nest. Vadic is coming to take him “home” so he can be tempted by all the glorious power he could wield, but he knows who he is and where he belongs, and he can use the powers they gave him for good instead.

It takes it from being a tragic story about the violation of two of our heroes and makes it a story about technology meant as a weapon being transformed by love into something that saves the day, which feels much more like Star Trek.

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It’s annoying, but I think the Janeway mentions in Picard aren’t hinting at a Janeway appearance on that show, I think it’s a clunky attempt at MCU-style brand synergy - get an audience that might not all be watching Prodigy hungry for Janeway, and then tell them that she’s a Prodigy-exclusive character and that they have to watch that to see her again.