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chicago-geniza · 9 days ago

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Inspired by a post on the dash: Every Cardassian state television production about romance is exactly like those Turkish melodramas inexplicably set in 19th-century imperial Russia. The propaganda series about the love story of Garak and Bashir would be filmed like Kurt Seyit ve Şura

#Garak always complains about the costumes #I am not being Orientalist by picking a random example I am speaking specifically about #The cinematography costuming casting and overall aesthetic choices #Of Turkish historical telenovelas set in an imagined ~Eurasia #That conjures both Ottoman nostalgia and pre-revolutionary ancien regime nostalgia #That's Cardassian Aesthetics #If Constantinople were Versailles

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