May 22, 2025
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ON THE DRAW !!!! 🔫🤠🌟
Little Tenna-in-Castle-town interactions with Lancer and Ralsei cause... uh... (also, yapping in the tags)
He's showing him off :D
happy (?) 5 year anniversary
if you want to understand Why They Did All That, may I suggest reading this? <3
PS This is kind of a shitpost that I did spontaneously. But I'm actually working on a long meta video paralleling SPN and The Winchesters to demonstrate what the prequel told us about Dean's emotional and physical state post-finale. If you subscribe on AO3 or YouTube, you'll get notified when I post it!
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tell me you love me, come back and haunt me
robron week day 4: back to the start
I wrote this months ago, but J and the household decided that this year's Passover Star Trek watch would be our beloved underappreciated fave, The Final Frontier, and had a great time with it all over again, now watching with J's girlfriend/my other best friend Kh, so I figured it was a good time to kick it out of drafts:
TFF is an imperfect film, but there's a lot to love about it; I even love the sudden Uhura/Scotty ship, the first time that Uhura was ever allowed a mutually consensual, enthusiastic romance with a white man (when Scotty later ruefully tells cultified!Uhura that he's in no condition for implied sex "and neither are you," it's genuinely kind of heartbreaking). But most of all, it's hard to overstate the degree to which I absolutely adore the confrontation with "God" towards the end.
Sybok is basically the Vulcan iteration of some Billy Graham televangelist cultist who deeply believes in his own cult and lacks the capacity to understand everything wrong with what he's been doing, but ultimately realizes what he's found is a monster and maybe he is too. When his brainwashing the pain away shtick returns one last time against God himself, it's genuinely such a O_O moment.
But even more, I think it's important—and right—that the most vulnerable of the main three to what Sybok offers is not Spock, his own brother, who spends the whole movie evading Sybok's touch and more and more obviously rebuffing his attempts to reach out, nor Kirk, who finds Sybok's whole shtick repellent and antithetical to everything he values (in a very TOS Kirk way) and visibly spends the whole movie trying to beam fuck you fuck you fuck youuuu into Sybok's brain. It's McCoy, and I've got to say it, cutting so often to McCoy even before this happens and training the camera so much on his reactions throughout the film is a genuinely great directorial choice.
McCoy, after initially falling to Sybok's cult leader approach to suffering (Kh: "okay, Jim Jones"), is repeatedly able to turn away through his solidarity with Kirk and Spock; he doesn't always see these things as clearly as they do, but it's the strength of his attachment to them that shows him a way out almost immediately. I actually don't think the importance of McCoy's relationship to Kirk and Spock has ever been more strongly emphasized before TFF or after. But it's not insignificant that Sybok's offer is visibly much more tempting for him than for Kirk or Spock, and in the Meeting God scene, Kirk immediately starts aggressively questioning God and Spock is just radiating doubt about the whole situation, but McCoy is primed to believe and horrified at how ready they are to question!!! the Almighty!!! You can't ask God for his CV!!!!!
(Our housemate from North Carolina walked in just long enough to watch the early scene and remarked, "this guy is totally a Southern Baptist, isn't he?" before wandering out again into the kitchen.)
God's malice and readiness to do harm and pretty obvious duplicity as Kirk presses his questions being what fully alienates McCoy tracks in its own way, too. It's part connection to other people, and it's part medical ethics. Many, many years earlier, McCoy's greatest moment in TOS was when he indignantly told Thalassa, "I will not peddle flesh. I'm a physician." The focus on McCoy deciding, clearly against his religious inclinations, to defy God because any God who would take pleasure in suffering is not a god worthy of his worship, is actually fantastic, one of my favorite ST movie moments ever. The persistent focus on the allure of clearly Christian-coded cultishness to people who really have suffered, and on what makes McCoy who he is and vulnerable to that but also able to walk away, is completely the right choice for this particular film IMO.
And meanwhile, it's genuinely delightful that Kirk and Spock's energy the whole scene (and really, the whole movie) is just
💚 Komahina 🍀🌻they have captivated me, compelled me, they cannot be normal about each other, they cant even look at each other properly, what is wrong with them