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Star Trek: the Next Generation

Star Trek: TNG - Season 6 Episode 5 "Schisms"

[theowritesfiction]

btvs season 6 watch continues:

Life Serial

I seriously don’t know what to think of The Trio as villains? They’re kind of too absurd? But at least I appreciate the comedy potential. Also, Buffy getting sloshed together with Spike is kind of amazing in all the wrong yet so right ways.

All the Way

Probably my least favorite episode of s6 which feels wrong because it was a Halloween episode and that should be a home run for series like btvs. I felt really uncomfortable with the way Anya was treated following the engagement announcement. The way her ‘friends’ react to Anya’s excitement is just shameful, like all these uncomfortable looks as if they’re laughing about ‘stupid, awkward Anya’. And Xander instead of talking with his fiancée, dares to immediately look like he’s having second thoughts, even worse he’s kind of already trying to bitch to his friends about it. Seriously, Anya is so unappreciated it makes me angry.

The death of the creepy old toymaker was definitely a subversion of expectations that hasn’t really been there in btvs this way, and it’s making me a little worried.

I love Tara and Willow as a couple, but I have to be critical of Tara, I genuinely don’t understand what’s her problem with using magic. Do you seriously think you’ve been given this gift to like… not use it? Should you really just wait for life and death situations to use it only then? Isn’t it just like any skill that you want to practice and get better at? Honestly, she goes after Willow way too hard. Let a talented witch stretch her wings and fulfil her potential, stop holding Willow back, it only makes her resentful and makes her go about it in a worse way.

I imagine Dawn probably got a lot of hate for this episode when it first aired, but I don’t really blame her at all. With Buffy being so distant towards her, how else are you expecting a fifteen year old to react other than leaning into dumb rebellion?

[foxmoulder]

remember when scully said to mulder "I'd kiss you if you weren't so damn ugly" during dreamland II?

I still think about that... a lot actually...

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6.05 The Mad King

[royaltyfreehorsesound]

relatable

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[leighlim]

This may be my favourite episode (okay....neck-in-neck with Season Four’s Episode 9).

Note: Out of respect to those who haven’t watched Episode 5 (Season 6) of Homeland…and would like to watch it while avoiding any sort of information (trailers, commentaries). I give this spoiler warning!

For maximum enjoyment watch Seasons 1-5.

(Scroll down at your own risk!)

I absolutely love the shot of Peter and Franny watching what was on the news. It somehow conveys a mixture of ‘just another day’ (from Franny’s expression) and the intense possibility (it is Homeland after all) of chaos.

I couldn’t help but think back to last episode to the conversation between Dar and Carrie, with Dar telling her that she doesn’t realise how vulnerable she is. Well done to the show’s producers and writers though...that they haven’t put in a ‘Franny’s been kidnapped and used as leverage’

Peter finally got the evidence (the familiar decals of the van at the crime scene) he needs to switch him back closer to his old self (gut feel check: yes --- someone was indeed there watching and up to no good), which I think helped sell the whole line uttered by Carrie (”That is a highly trained war-fighter. People would die!”) and show that he was basically under a haze the whole time (is it the meds helping?)

Additional Observations:

There are two actors playing Franny (twins! One named Claire)

The score...the score...is so well done. I should make it a point to watch each episode at a respectable volume (interestingly the score sound level is slightly higher than the dialogue)

Amazing even how formulaic (last two seasons it was: Carrie, Quinn, and Saul are on separate paths...then somehow they get brought together to save the day) the show gets that it could still produce electrifying stuff that keeps me on the edge of my seat.

It works that there are no opening titles (just the Homeland banner...strategically placed)

Patrick Sabongui is doing such a good job as Reda Hashem --- those scenes with Claire Danes proves that he is much of a heavyweight actor as she is. Looking forward to see more of his work! Meanwhile...I am hoping Reda and Saul would have scenes together with long dialogues.

Screenshot from Season 6 Episode 5 (Timestamp: 4:29)

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Contact me (Through Tumblr’s Direct Messaging) for the link to a copy (in PDF) of my Timestamp Commentary for the three episodes.

If you were brave (crazy?) enough to scroll down to the end of this post before watching previous episodes — you can join the timeline commentary collective too!

Format is up to you — though for me I use: (Time) (Scene Description) (Reaction) — so it’s handy if you have the disc version (or if on DVR and it would be a struggle to put in the exact timestamp — a work around is just mention the scene…so I can easily follow!)

I started to do Timeline commentaries to keep track of episodes (and just be able to pick up a discussion with someone who had just watched it — and it could get me as ‘fresh’ as I could). For films that I end up abandoning (either during the first ten minutes or towards the halfway mark after realising that it is not the sort of show for me), I still keep my commentaries on hand, and if someone from my circle asks…I can just easily remember why. Then I found other reasons why it’s something that I should continue!

[insignificantnobody]

And I’d been thinking the oddly-angled shot of a dick would be the most shocking thing this episode.