I've missed the teal deer tbh. Tumblr allows you so little time to think!
The exhausting grim needs to have payoff and catharsis, and I feel like it needs to be a liberated Trek to achieve that: less subtext or "we can show a queer relationship because it's relegated to background and/or episodic," more explicit found family and complex vibrant interpersonal dynamics.
I absolutely agree with this -- I wouldn't want Trek to ever be relentlessly dark and grim, and a lot of what draws me to Trek is the optimism and the difference from TV shows of the 00s and 10s. I also really enjoy one-episode storylines or monster-of-the-week style stories, and these seem to be an almost lost art in modern TV. Shows are so focused on the over-arcing narrative that we don't have any room for filler episodes or single-episode stories, and I really miss that. I don't always want something that feels designed for binge watching.
I don't know if Trek will ever achieve what, for me, would be the ideal hybrid of emotionally consistent story arcs, including fall-out from past events, and episodic story-telling. At times, I think DS9 got the balance almost exactly right, but nothing can be perfect all of the time.
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The exhausting grim needs to have payoff and catharsis, and I feel like it needs to be a liberated Trek to achieve that: less subtext or "we can show a queer relationship because it's relegated to background and/or episodic," more explicit found family and complex vibrant interpersonal dynamics.
I absolutely agree with this -- I wouldn't want Trek to ever be relentlessly dark and grim, and a lot of what draws me to Trek is the optimism and the difference from TV shows of the 00s and 10s. I also really enjoy one-episode storylines or monster-of-the-week style stories, and these seem to be an almost lost art in modern TV. Shows are so focused on the over-arcing narrative that we don't have any room for filler episodes or single-episode stories, and I really miss that. I don't always want something that feels designed for binge watching.
I don't know if Trek will ever achieve what, for me, would be the ideal hybrid of emotionally consistent story arcs, including fall-out from past events, and episodic story-telling. At times, I think DS9 got the balance almost exactly right, but nothing can be perfect all of the time.