My mother gave me an Amazon gift card for Chanukah, so I have bought Amazon Prime. This has already started to pay shipping dividends as I got free shipping on the replacement laptop AC adapter I just ordered. But more importantly it gives me streaming video to my Touchpad, which is awesome. All of Star Trek! Lost! Better Off Ted! X-Files! Fawlty Towers! Weird movies to watch when I don't want to use my brain! NUMB3RS in all its holy shit do I ship Charlie/Amita glory (And its holy shit do I not want to read all the Charlie/Amita fic glory, too... The race issues... The religion issues... the math issues... I do not trust fandom with that pairing under any circumstances, except possibly PurimGifts).

I've resumed my chronological Star Trek rewatch, which was midway through Season 3 when it paused for reasons I'm unclear of. I'm now a third into Season 4 and it's funny how sometimes when I watch that show I see the show I want it to be instead of the show it actually is, how close it can come to being the show I want and how it can then drift so far away from that platonic SF drama. In sequence I watched Family, Brothers, and Suddenly Human- two episodes that do an amazing job of exploring ideas of fatherhood, brotherhood, kinship, adopted kinship, found family... and then a third episode that completely botches those same ideas. Later, in sequence I endured the loopy, hasty Twilight Zone homage of Remember Me, the dull obviousness of Legacy, and the brilliant emotional conflicts of Reunion. When TNG works, it's an incredibly deep show. When it doesn't work, it's either frustratingly or hilariously bad.

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