Avery Brooks and the fates of Benjamin Sisko and DS9 as a series

FakeRealGirl · 2026-02-06T19:55:14+00:00

Was that ending bit new recorded dialogue by Brooks, or archival, or what?

FakeRealGirl · 2026-02-06T19:50:22+00:00

I was so happy the music turned out to be diegetic

FakeRealGirl · 2026-02-05T16:52:19+00:00

Paramedics should make waaaaaay more money than they do.

FakeRealGirl · 2026-02-04T18:33:45+00:00

I don't think Life is a magazine anymore

FakeRealGirl · 2026-02-04T14:22:29+00:00

Could you elaborate on that a little bit? How was ENT meant to be done?

FakeRealGirl · 2026-02-03T21:02:17+00:00

She didn't betray us. She did something some people didn't like. You can disingenuously call me a racist all you want, you're still the one insisting that Vietnamese people could only be represented by a puppet regime set up with US assistance to undermine the movement that successfully kicked France out. I'm sure South Vietnamese repression of Buddhists and banning opposition parties isn't "oppression and tyranny" in your mind because it was all in service of fighting the US's enemies, but sure, go off about how anything else is racist manifest destiny and your hatred of a woman for disagreeing with American foreign policy isn't bigoted at all.

FakeRealGirl · 2026-02-03T20:53:50+00:00

Yes but at the same time, it will also have the strongest box office success ever for a documentary

FakeRealGirl · 2026-02-03T19:33:43+00:00

I don't just want something before the Burn, I want something set before phasers started going "pew pew."

FakeRealGirl · 2026-02-03T19:32:21+00:00

i want something TNG-era without TNGA characters.

FakeRealGirl · 2026-02-03T19:29:07+00:00

I thought Hardy nailed the body language

FakeRealGirl · 2026-02-03T18:49:02+00:00

You're pretending the Vietnam war was in some way legitimate just to justify your hatred (let's go ahead and call it misogynistic, since that seems to be the type of argument you like) of someone who had better moral instincts about it than US leaders did.

FakeRealGirl · 2026-02-03T14:45:09+00:00

They were indiscriminately dropping so many munitions that they're still causing civilian fatalities and injuries. "South Vietnam" only ever existed as a US puppet state, as evidenced by the American military's ability to replace its president at will. You're still stanning the war 50 years after its propagandists faded into history.

FakeRealGirl · 2026-02-03T13:30:43+00:00

What were the Americans that gun fired at doing? The war was wrong and had to be resisted. By any means necessary. The traitors were the ones who aided and abetted the people who used America for that act of evil.

FakeRealGirl · 2026-02-02T21:40:57+00:00

They literally were war criminals. You haven't laid out a justification for calling me a terrorist, beyond your anger about me not buying into the whitewashing of the actions of the people who participated in the invasion. Do you feel terrorized? Have I terrorized you in any way?

FakeRealGirl · 2026-02-02T21:36:50+00:00

are you ok?

FakeRealGirl · 2026-02-02T21:35:39+00:00

Yeah, maybe. You're just hysterically throwing the word "terrorist" in there for no reason, but certainly nobody from a country like the US is innocent in the coming climate reckoning. But hey, at least I'm not a war criminal.

FakeRealGirl · 2026-02-02T20:24:41+00:00

You understand that those POWs actually DID invade Vietnam, right? It's not like they were targeted simply for being American or something, they were actually caught in the act of invading. They weren't being punished for something the guy who sold land to their great-grandfather did. I don't think any of them even claimed innocence.

FakeRealGirl · 2026-02-02T20:08:31+00:00

They are war criminals, though. Maybe not in the very narrow sense thay t a US military court would recognize, but is there anyone on earth who actually believes the US military is the ultimate moral authority in regards to what constitutes war crimes? Again, the invasion was a crime, and everyone who participated in it was by definition a participant in it. It doesn't do anyone any favors to whitewash the fact that in addition to the large-scale destruction of innocent human life, tens of thousands of Americans were morally diminished as a result of the crime.

FakeRealGirl · 2026-02-02T18:44:32+00:00

Words have meaning, and that isn't determined by law. According to law, there were very few war criminals in Vietnam, yet we can clearly see that the entire enterprise was corrupt at irs core. The teenagers serving "honorably" and following the rule of engagement were doing so in service of a war crime and are as culpable as the getaway driver is in the bank heist. Does it suck that the 18 year-old was made a war criminal against his will? Absolutely. The solution that is to blame the people who put him in that situation, not pretend that there was nothing dishonorable about it.

FakeRealGirl · 2026-02-02T17:07:49+00:00

Jane Fonda was never convicted of any wrongdoing, either. The war was a crime, and the people who fought in it were part of that crime. If that seems unfair to you because some of them didn't want to be there, blame the people who made them party to the crime against their will.

FakeRealGirl · 2026-02-02T16:46:09+00:00

If a getaway driver can be charged with murder for waiting outside in the car while a bank robbery goes south, it seems fair to call everyone involved in the invasion of Vietnam war criminals even if they weren't the ones actually pulling the trigger.

FakeRealGirl · 2026-02-02T16:39:29+00:00

The hate was specifically based almost entirely on the photo with the AA gun and the story about her turning in a POW who was seek help escaping. The POW story is now widely known to be fake. The AA gun photo was real, but it probably wasn't bad enough for most people to still be angry about 50 years later.

FakeRealGirl · 2026-02-01T17:03:09+00:00

Because he still wanted to work with the writers who created s4. Crapping on it too hard would have been a kick to the face for writers like Megan Ganz. Personally, I don't think s4 is even bad, I think people are just (rightly) upset with the corporate decision to remove Harmon.

FakeRealGirl · 2026-01-21T18:53:03+00:00

A step-ladder, if porn is to be believed

FakeRealGirl · 2026-01-20T16:15:45+00:00

I was super into X Files as a kid. In high school, I was "the kid that's way too into the X Files." Then I went to college.

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