DS9 1x16: "If Wishes Were Horses"
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1summermissionEpisode Notes:
+ Quark is so gross. I'm glad Odo calls him on it. ("You're disgusting" "It's a living")
+ Julian's reaction to his too nice rejection by Dax was delightful. He's so young.
+ I want Miles to hang out BEING A DADDY in every episode, just PLAYING WITH HIS BABY GIRL. She is so cute. I cannot bear it.
+ Julian is like a dog chasing after cars -- what would he do with women if he caught one? The answer provided by this episode is THANKFULLY NOT HAVE SEX WITH THEM, BECAUSE I WOULD HAVE FOUND THAT REALLY CREEPY. THAT IS SOMEONE IN A DAX SUIT.
+ I love how schlubby the baseball star is. That's my sport! (In seriousness, I thought it was cool that he was Asian and on the London team and gave that touching speech to Sisko about how much his support meant to him. No one was at the games? Hooooow?)
+ Most. Awkward. Scene. Ever. "Is that really how you want me to be? Submissive?" And it started off so well, with Dax being so mature about the whole thing. At least she knew he liked her before hand!
Overall Reaction: I love shit like this! Julian being all awkward and hapless and having fantasies about SAVING Jadzia's LIFE during the middle of a crisis! Baseball! DREAMS MADE MANIFEST IN HILARIOUS AND UNCOMFORTABLE WAYS. The only thing that kept pulling me up short was the thought, "But what if you imagine something awful?" because, speaking as someone with a really fantastic imagination, a good 1/8th of my imagining goes to picturing things that would totally fracture my life, like getting a call that one of my siblings was dead. And then the show answered it by (a bit predictably) making the entire plot a horrible imagining! (Though luckily no one's siblings ended up dead.)
Anyway, this was some good old school Trek crack, with a bonus Message About Humanity (our imaginations? are awesome!). What fun.
Star Rating: ***
Quote of the Episode:
"I enjoy the time we spend together!"
"Stop, you're putting a stake through my heart!" (Dax, nice, and Bashir, delightfully melodramatic)
+ Quark is so gross. I'm glad Odo calls him on it. ("You're disgusting" "It's a living")
+ Julian's reaction to his too nice rejection by Dax was delightful. He's so young.
+ I want Miles to hang out BEING A DADDY in every episode, just PLAYING WITH HIS BABY GIRL. She is so cute. I cannot bear it.
+ Julian is like a dog chasing after cars -- what would he do with women if he caught one? The answer provided by this episode is THANKFULLY NOT HAVE SEX WITH THEM, BECAUSE I WOULD HAVE FOUND THAT REALLY CREEPY. THAT IS SOMEONE IN A DAX SUIT.
+ I love how schlubby the baseball star is. That's my sport! (In seriousness, I thought it was cool that he was Asian and on the London team and gave that touching speech to Sisko about how much his support meant to him. No one was at the games? Hooooow?)
+ Most. Awkward. Scene. Ever. "Is that really how you want me to be? Submissive?" And it started off so well, with Dax being so mature about the whole thing. At least she knew he liked her before hand!
Overall Reaction: I love shit like this! Julian being all awkward and hapless and having fantasies about SAVING Jadzia's LIFE during the middle of a crisis! Baseball! DREAMS MADE MANIFEST IN HILARIOUS AND UNCOMFORTABLE WAYS. The only thing that kept pulling me up short was the thought, "But what if you imagine something awful?" because, speaking as someone with a really fantastic imagination, a good 1/8th of my imagining goes to picturing things that would totally fracture my life, like getting a call that one of my siblings was dead. And then the show answered it by (a bit predictably) making the entire plot a horrible imagining! (Though luckily no one's siblings ended up dead.)
Anyway, this was some good old school Trek crack, with a bonus Message About Humanity (our imaginations? are awesome!). What fun.
Star Rating: ***
Quote of the Episode:
"I enjoy the time we spend together!"
"Stop, you're putting a stake through my heart!" (Dax, nice, and Bashir, delightfully melodramatic)
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