#but i'm ten episodes into my rewatch and they HAVE NOT GIVEN US ANY RULES FOR THIS YET

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I do enjoy being pandered to with nostalgic imagery, but it also would've been neat to get something brand new.

What an absolute delight to see Hotaru happy after all these years of grim duty and tragedy.

More nostalgia.

Okay, I think I ship this. Unless they're supposed to be siblings, but they seem extra cuddly. I feel like I rarely know in this franchise when the cousins are actually lesbians and when the devoted and emotionally intimate men really are brothers even in the original. The 90's dub left lasting doubt in me.

This affected me a bit.

This also stirred something in me, which caught me by surprise.

And this affected me a lot.

If I'm being honest, I don't think my deepest heart is truly awake enough to fully appreciate this, but I definitely enjoyed it.

I'm probably gonna need repeat viewings, supplemental materials, and meta analysis to fully understand all of the details. The time travel seems to be a confusing mix of Back to the Future rules and Trunks rules.

I'm thankful that the story was able to be finished at all, but I still would've preferred seasons over movies. There's something to be said for that time spent between episodes, dangling on a cliffhanger, hyping and theorizing about what's to come, as well as for the time spent falling in love with the character and transformation music as it repeats each week.

Yasuharu Takanashi has definitely left a lasting impression on me. I caught half an episode of Boruto that my mom and step-dad were watching and immediately both recognized his style and enjoyed the score. And I definitely loved his work in Cosmos, even though I'm realizing that having time to sit with the music between episodes and hear certain themes repeat lets me savor the flavor even more.

Then there's also the time to let story beats breathe and the time to let characters make more of an impression.

It's been about ten years of hoping to see the missing Animamates fully realized, and most of them got the approximate screen time of a 90's monster-of-the-week (or less.) And I'm assuming their roles weren't very big in the manga (I can finally let myself read that now!) either, like how the Spectre Sisters had smaller roles in the Black Moon Arc than in the 90's counterpart, but I still feel like even they had a bit more presence than most of the Animamates got in this movie. Maybe it's more due to the time in between with the fandom making posts and art than the actual screen time, but either way I don't feel like I got enough of them.

At the end of the day we got what we got and I'm still grateful for it. When I first got on Tumblr in 2011, Crystal hadn't even been announced. As far as any of us knew, the 90's anime was all we would ever get and those manga-exclusive characters and scenes would forever stay in the manga. I remember the hype for this. I remember the bickering about this. I remember when we weren't even sure if the third and fourth arcs were going to happen at all, let alone the fifth. I remember the long and bumpy ride it's taken to finally get here. (Much as I've come to appreciate a little time between installments, ten years for five arcs is perhaps too far in the other direction.) This franchise had already given me a lot of memories and the last ten years with this reboot series have made even more.

I look forward to binge-rewatching the series as a whole, probably the English dub next time. It's gonna feel weird not having a new installment of this reboot to look forward to anymore. I'm really not sure how to process that fact right now.

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so i can’t remember if we know anything about this from sga canon (?), but do the wraith have to put their feeding hand on their victim’s chest, specifically, for this thing to work? is there any precise area that they need to hit? could their victim make an unexpected little jump and the poor hungry wraith just flat-handedly punches its dinner in the stomach? can you be fed upon through your back as long as it’s the same general area of the body as on the front? would it work if the feeding hand attaches to your shoulder, your hip, the sole of your foot, the middle of your face? can you die a miserable death as you shrivel into a husk of the person you once were because you allowed a wraith to slap your ass?

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Emissary: Parts 1 & 2

Text crawl??? This is the wrong Star Franchise

Yes hair no beard Sisko is always strange. Better than no beard Riker, but still strange

I wish this Bolian had come back as a friend for Benjamin later on

Did Jennifer die in this ship's version of Ten Forward? Why are there so many windows?

Who is this BABY playing Jake?

To be clear, that last point is about the flashback. Actual Cirroc Lofton is also baby though

Ah, Benjamin and Jake looking at ds9 and how I know it's gonna parallel with Nerys and Jake looking out from it 😭😭😭

Here it is, the slowest theme song in the universe. RIP to y'all who think Faith of the Heart is bad, how do y'all stand this?

That said, my love for ds9 makes this theme song feel like coming home, no matter how slow it is

Love that Miles is wearing the ds9 uniform and Benjamin isn't. Miles is the one coming from the Enterprise

I know Quark has Rom's nose in this episode bc they hadn't finished making his yet, but still, everytime I rewatch the episode I'm like "Does Quark have Rom's nose??"

32°C? I didn't realize they set up the temperature difference between Cardassians and humans in the pilot

KIRA'S HAIR

Nana Visitor, every Star Trek fan owes you their life for cutting up that wig

Is Odo's face meltier than usual?

Nog! Baby!

Odo may be a fucking cop, but at least he says no guns

I forgot the Ferengi hissing in the early seasons

Oh, I'm not used to seeing the Enterprise conference room not in HD

Benjamin, I know you're traumatized, but it's not Jean Luc's fault

"I've come to know the Bajorans" sir, you have one Bajoran officer and you nearly didn't allow her to wear her earring

I do like how Benjamin is doing his absolute best in the job and making long term plans even though he's planning on leaving

Odo, don't act like you wouldn't despair if Quark left

This hair does make Nerys look significantly more like Laren, which I guess is what they were going for

Opaka! Ma'am, I miss you

Remember how in the original script, you felt someone's pagh through their foot instead of their ear?? I hate Star Trek

Love when Benjamin just Yells. Emissary and Our Man Bashir show Supreme Acting

I wish we had gotten to see more of Jennifer. She seems so lovely

Morn! Didn't realize he showed up in the pilot

There are so many Bajorans not wearing earrings in this episode

Julian, the stuttering is cute, but please calm down

"He knows I'm a Trill, he finds it fascinating," that's bc he's an alienfucker

Love that ds9 immediately says "This whole 'Final Frontier' stuff is bullshit. People live here"

Didn't Curzon get fucked to death on Risa? How is he on the same operating table as Jadzia?

Dukat, no one cares what makes you happy

Benjamin: We'll try to keep the dog off your lawn. Dukat: What the hell is a dog?

Forget latinum, Kira's smile is the most precious resource in the universe

The inside of the wormhole looks like the time travel closet in Halloweentown 2

I know it's just supposed to show how much turmoil Benjamin is in, but the fact that the Prophets see Jadzia's internal view as this pretty garden is really interesting considering the inferiority complex Curzon washing her out of the program gave her and how much she is presumably struggling to find a balance between Jadzia and Dax given how much her personality changes over the first couple of seasons

Me trying to watch Benjamin in the white void the Prophets put him in:

How the fuck did Avery tolerate filming this?

Listen, I know I don't understand science, but I really don't understand how they make the station lighter. Please don't try to explain it to me

Damn, Odo, you've got such interesting potential as a character. I wish you weren't a fucking cop

Love the Prophets and how extremely different they are from any other species we meet

Miles, don't be rude to the computer; she's trying to help

"In a linear existence, we can't go back to the past to get something we left behind, so it's lost" well, now I'm emo about the finale title

Benjamin is being remarkably patient trying to explain the concept of time

He looks so uncomfortable trying to explain kissing to them

Listen, I don't have like One Big Event that causes my trauma, but even still, the phrasing of you existing in your trauma really Hits

Dukat enters the wormhole and the Prophets immediately go "oh, no, fuck this"

The Prophets are me trying to understand sports

Man, fuck the concept of a Picard speech, Sisko speeches are where it's at

Does Kira have a different nose than usual? I feel like it doesn't normally have that line down the mide

"I can't believe the Cardassians would ever attack a Federation outpost." Julian, hon, I love you, but how are you so clueless about very recent, very significant galactic events?

Avery Brooks is so fucking talented

I fucking love Kira

I know we joke about Julian being in ops when he should be in sickbay, but honestly, why did he not leave as soon as they started taking hits?

Benjamin and Jake hugging gives me life

In The 7th Rule podcast, Cirroc says that Avery wanted him for the role bc he was the only kid who called him "dad" and I'm so 😭

Love the contrast between the two meetings with Picard and how much better Benjamin is doing already just from acknowledging his trauma

Love Kira threatening Quark

Very good episode, but I think it's probably difficult for new viewers to follow, and has a bit too much action for my taste 7/10