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The Disney Death trope as used in popular culture. Beloved major character is seemingly killed at the climax of the movie/episode, hearts are wrenched, four-. Loosely inspired by the real life and achievements of Dr. Kathy Magliato, Heartbeat stars Melissa George as an iconoclastic heart transplant surgeon. Why would everyone give up technology? Apollo’s suggestion that an entire civilization of nearly forty-thousand people give up all technology is a pretty radical.

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So, really, any kind things. Nip Tuck Season 4 Episode 4 there. Anyway, you can listen to that here if that's the kind of thing you like to do. Or we can just sit here in uncomfortable silence. That's fine too. With the publication of my essay on Ill Wind Part 4 and my Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Reading Guide (which just went up earlier today here, in case you missed it), Vaka Rangi has officially left the TNG/DS9 period. I said it before (in the Species essay), but this means my positionality is gone from Star Trek more or less for good. And I'll be honest, when I was first planning Vaka Rangi in 2. I had no intention of covering the Original Series, the Animated Series, the movies, Voyager, the Dominion War or anything else.

That I've managed to stretch the project out for this long still quite frankly amazes me. The fact of the matter is I really don't have many more places to go with Star Trek. With Ill Wind, I've basically said all I wanted to say. I did what I set out to do. I do have some stuff to say about Enterprise and I'm working on the early stages of a rough outline of an ..

Longtime Vaka Rangi readers may remember that I have a small tradition of making episode guide/reading list posts whenever I finish covering Big Eras of the project. The hypothetical situation is that someone who is new to the show and yet for some reason *doesn't* want to marathon binge- watch it as is the standard way of consuming TV these days could theoretically be interested in my recommendations for the best stories so as to emphasize the cream of the crop while avoiding filler and missteps. Each entry has a link to my essay on the story for those who might want to revisit them. I first did something like this when, following a joke Kevin Burns made to me about Futurama, I was challenged to find . TOS fans will likely be annoyed as there's probably more episodes from that show one could recommend (and I *still* would have chosen different episodes after publishing Vaka Rangi Volume 1), but I wanted to limit myself to 2. I was far harsher in my choices than I might otherwise have been.

I didn't do .. Gideon is a psychopath. Psychopaths are narcissists. They rarely doubt who they are.

DR. CHILTON: Tried to appeal to his narcissism. HANNIBAL: By convincing him he was the Chesapeake Ripper. DR. CHILTON: If only I had been more curious: about the common mind. HANNIBAL: I have no interest in understanding sheep.

Only eating them. One of Hannibal’s more bluntly callous secret confessions. Its unusual viciousness is probably explained by his understandable frustration at having to relate in any way, shape, or form to Chilton. Also interesting is the selection of animals for the metaphor - a departure from the show’s default choice of pigs that flags the particular disdain with which Hannibal holds Chilton.

DR. CHILTON: I thought psychic driving would have been more effective in breaking down his personality. HANNIBAL: Psychic driving fails because its methods are too obvious. You were trying too hard, Fredrick.

If force is used, the subject will only surrender temporarily. Hannibal is, of course, obliquely .. At this precise moment, a ton of threads that have been going on for a while are converging.

Most immediately, we’re doing the trailered regeneration. We’re also at the climax of the trailered “the Doctor has joined the monks and Bill stands against him” plot, which is the hook this episode was previewed on since the initial Radio Times summaries. And, of course, we’re at the halfway point of the climax of the ballyhooed “Monk Trilogy,” resolving fully three weeks of storytelling.

What do we get, then? A scene in which a room full of people literally cracks up that we fell for any of it.

It’s not, obviously, that I mind narrative substitution. I mean, I coined the phrase and all. But the substitution has to actually mean something instead of just being an empty placeholder. The point of narrative substitution is that the second narrative critiques the first one.

It’s not just chucking out a plot because you’re bored with it and laughing at the audience for .. There’s a new episode of Oi! Spaceman, in which I join Shana and Daniel to – for reasons that now elude me – talk about . HERE. And there’s a bonus mini- episode of Wrong With Authority, featuring myself in conversation with Daniel about the 2. David Fincher movie Zodiac. HERE. We may do more of these (comparatively) short extra episodes in future, with just a couple of us chatting about a movie outside our main sequence. You can download it here.

The Mestral is stunned, but not for long. Rav implores that he only wants her “safe” (which the Mestral quite aptly reads as “tame”). Watch Before Sunset Online Freeform. He claims he's trying to protect her from the factions trying to assassinate and usurp her.

But the Mestral sees right though his ploy- He's working for one of the other factions, and they're trying to use her own feelings of love and loyalty to cloud her judgment. And she can play the same game: Having directly threatened her, Rav must be arrested and tried, and the only way for him to escape sentence is to kill her. Which she knows he won't do, because he loves her. The Mestral covertly opens an audio channel to the Enterprise, and, by cleverly rephrasing an exposition recap into a challenge (“You used that phaser on Venant, Rav, but you won't use it on me.. So you may as well put it away”), she manipulates Rav into revealing his plan to the Enterprise crew.

He knows he can't shoot her and that she won't back down, so he and his co- conspirators are planning to kidnap her and bring her back to Eldalis where ..

Big Questions About Battlestar Galactica’s Finale. The “reimagined” version of Battlestar Galactica is easily the best Science Fiction show of the past decade. At its peak, it was one of the best shows on all of television. It combined the excitement of space adventure with the human drama of the day- to- day coping of a people without a home, as well as social commentary about religion, politics, and society writ large. After this tremendous build over four seasons, the creators of Battlestar Galactica had a tall order to properly wrap up the series. With so many mysteries and plot twists and burning issues to settle, the final episode of BSG tried not only to reach a satisfying conclusion, but to provide answers.

Unfortunately, it left me with the following seven rather significant questions. Note: This should go without saying, but this article contains boatloads of spoilers for the entire run of Battlestar Galactica. If you have not seen the show, do yourself a favor and watch it rather than letting me spoil things for you. Why would everyone give up technology?

Apollo’s suggestion that an entire civilization of nearly forty- thousand people give up all technology is a pretty radical one. The show hand- waves this issue with a statement about what people will do for a clean slate, but it feels like a cheat. This is a group of people who have lived with advanced technology their entire lives. Are we really to believe that the every last member of the fleet shares Apollo’s vision for a pastoral life? First of all, this is the same group of people who were ravenously attempting to strip Galactica of all its technological goodies the second they realized it would no longer be in service. They’re the people who rioted and used violence when food supplies were running low.

Now they’re all willing to be farmers? How do you turn this pack of humans who have repeatedly been shown as fighting over their creature comforts into the Amish country? Apollo changed his tune when he realized he would have to give up his blow dryer. Secondly, one of the best parts of BSG was how the show’s creators repeatedly confronted the issue of dissent among the fleet. They consistently went out of their way to show that not every decision was popular, and that many resulted in a great deal of controversy and resistance throughout the remaining human population. There has always been a variety of opinions represented on the show, and that’s one of the aspects that added realism to a series about spacemen fleeing killer robots.

Case- in- point – the finale is only few episodes removed from a large- scale mutiny. How is it that tens of thousands of people are suddenly all in agreement on something as drastic as forgoing all of their civilization’s technological advancements?

What many fans love about BSG is the realistic bent it takes toward the rigors of balancing democratic values and the need for survival in governing a large group of people. The finale throws this out the window. It’s hard- to- swallow that the same fleet that showed a diversity of opinion on a multitude of topics both major and minor would buy this company line wholesale.

What the hell is Kara “Starbuck” Thrace? One of the biggest mysteries of the fourth season of Battlestar Galactica was who, or what, the returning Kara “Starbuck” Thrace is. After Apollo sees her ship explode, Starbuck is presumed dead, and she is mourned by her friends and compatriots. Then, two months later, she shows up out of nowhere in a mysteriously brand new viper, spunky and boisterous as ever.

This improbable series of events leads the crew, and the audience, to wonder: Is she a human? Is she a Cylon? Is she something else entirely?

The show stoked the flames of this mystery. The “Previously on Battlestar Galactica” segments often featured Kara asking “What am I? A demon?” It shows Starbuck seemingly having found her earthly remains, with a positive DNA match to boot. In the episodes following her return, Starbuck has a psychic sense about where to find Earth; she sees visions of her dead father, and she even remembers a song that ends up leading the way to the fleet’s new home. The Cylon Leoben had intimated for years that Starbuck had a “special destiny,” but just who or what is she?

Maybe she's this guy - top- selling recording artist Rod Stewart. The show never tells us. In the series finale, all we get is her statement to Apollo that she thinks she’s completed her mission and that it feels good. Then she disappears into thin air. No explanation. No exposition. Was she, as Leoben theorized, an angel? Was she an instrument of God?

Did she, as hybridized Anders seemed to indicate, cross over to the other side? Good luck looking for answers. No show can resolve every plot point ever raised in the entirety of the series run. This is particularly true for a series like BSG that was filled to the brim with twists and mysteries. The nature of Kara’s identity, however, was one of the central foci of the fourth season. This was the endpoint of the character arc for one of the show’s main leads and one of its most beloved personalities. Perhaps the show’s creators did not want to spell everything out, but why not add in at least a few more details about what she was and why she was sent back?

She’s only one of the coolest, most significant characters in the series. Why is no one worried about the other bad Cylons out there? So “The Colony” is accidentally destroyed. Plus the evil Cylons that are on board Galactica are all dead too. The Cylon threat is destroyed and we can just live our technophobic carefree lifestyle on Earth forever! Huzzah! There’s just one problem – what about the other Cylon base ships out there containing missiles, nuclear weapons and a pack of angry Cylons still hell- bent on revenge?

Were all of the base ships back at the colony for some reason? Surely Cavil has more than a few copies zigzagging the galaxy searching for the fleet.

I'm really quite evil. Why is everyone so blithely willing to treat this like a pure victory and destroy or give away humanity’s only means of defense or escape? Maybe it would be hard for the bad guys to find Earth, but if the Final Five are any indication, they have plenty of time to keep looking. At least with New Caprica, there was a nearby nebula that made DRADIS hard to use, providing some measure of protection from discovery. Earth has no such safe harbors. Nobody bothered to keep a few vipers and raptors around and keep a patrol going just in case? The colonists on Earth are essentially sitting ducks.

No one seems to be the least bit concerned about this and I have no clue why. Did Hera procreate with a caveman? So Hera is “Mitochondreal Eve.” Even though that probably doesn’t mean what the creators seem to think it does, the implication is clear. Hera is meant to be the primogenitor of all of modern day humanity. It at least indicates that all human mitochondria come from her. There’s only one problem with that – it implies that she or one of her early descendants took a caveman lover.

Think about that for a moment. When the crew of Galactica finds a few early homosapiens, they do not even have language yet. Sure, Colonial Humans and Earth Humans are genetically compatible, but one is a civilization that built starships and traveled across the galaxy, and the other is one that fashions spears and crosses the landscape in loincloths. There’s a reason that the Star Trek universe has the prime directive to prevent the Kirks and Rikers of the galaxy from enjoying a little Friday Night hominid. The end result leaves us with two possibilities.

The first is that Hera or one of her offspring took advantage of a caveman who did not understand her language, let alone consent, and produced a child. The second is that nobody copulated with the natives, but rather the Colonial Humans completely supplanted the native humans on Earth. Whether you go with Neanderthal love or genetic obsolescence, neither choice is particularly pleasant.