Hi, hey, so, WOW. I just FINALLY read through a bunch of your legion recaps, having gone back to the show SPECIFICALLY so I could enjoy your recaps, and ZERO REGRETS. SO DAMN GOOD. I AM SCREAMING. THE BOLERO THING. CHAPTER 7. SLAY ME. (still need to watch chapter 8, I just actually yelped reading that and wanted you to be made aware how delighted this recap has left me :)
AAHH THANK YOU SO MUUUUUCHH!!!!
Honestly the amount I love Legion + love I poured into those recaps feels kinda inversely proportional to how many people they actually reached, so getting this message made me feel you found my SECRET HORDE of recaps or something and I’m over here thrilled like Congratulations, questing knight!!!
Will you be doing recaps for Star Trek Discovery? (I loved your Legion and DS9 ones, but of course you're not obligated in any way to to do that for Discovery)
Hello sweet anon!! Can you believe I had not even thought about this? Wowza.
And the answer is: We Will See, because recaps take me, mmm a non-negligible amount of time, so I only do them for things I not only really love, but also am ~inspired~ to spend a whole lot of words on. Will Discovery fit this bill? It might! But without having seen any of it yet, can’t say for sure.
PRETTY late on this, but I was enjoy a nice season 3 Hannibal rewatch and found your recaps which I LOVE. I saw for the episode Aperitivo, Alana says the thing about bone marrow getting into her blood. Not sure if anyone answered this, but as a medical student maybe I have a good answer. When large bones are broken (pelvis in Alana's case here) bone marrow can indeed leak into the blood stream. This can rarely cause a fat embolism (lot of fat in bone marrow) which can lead to seizures Pt 1
Pt 2 So seizures and brain weirdness could definitely make you feel/act different I guess. The other thing I was thinking she might be talking about is since the bone marrow is full of stem cells, she could be a new person in that sense? They aren’t pluripotent stem cells like you would get from an embryo, but Alana has a PhD in psychology, she didn’t go to medical school so we can forgive her. Anyway, just this Fannibal’s guesses :) Sorry this is soooo long after you wrote these hahahah
Wait are you kidding it is never too late for medical deets!! Thank you for this!!!
And aw, aw, I’m so touched my recaps are still finding new peeps! Season 3 is an odd one because I sorta…recapped it twice, and I have no idea which ones you found so just in case here’s a map to my nonsense:
This happened because I first started writing recaps for S3, and then a few months after the finale looped back around and rewatched the whole series, writing stuff for S1 and S2 and eventually S3 all over again.
It was not the most reasonable choice but, this was not the most reasonable show.
Perhaps the reason why my Trek through Deep Space Nine was on hold for a while, was because the universe knew that this strawberry milkshake of an episode would be exactly what I needed this week.
Season 7, Episode 4: ‘Take Me Out To the Holosuite’
It’s another beautiful day in space — until Sisko’s mood is upended by the arrival of his Petty Nemesis, one Captain Solok.
A) Love a petty nemesis, fantastic, B) am just realizing in this moment that there is no one in the Quadrant more suited to petty nemisery than Vulcans. Those people never forget a detail. In a ‘Which Line In Hamilton Are You?’ quiz all Vulcans get “Here’s an itemized list of thirty years of disagreements.”
“(Sweet Jesus.)”
Solok and Sisko each affect a superior remove while they snip and preen at each other over their respective medals of honor. Then Solok gives Sisko a rundown of the repairs his ship is going to need, and unfortunately for EVERYONE, it turns out that the work that needs to be done on the T’Kumbra’s warp core will take at least week. Aggrieved siiigh.
As he rises to depart, Solok mentions that while here he needs the use of a holosuite. Well whatever your floats your spaceboat; take it up with Quark.
“I have created a special program for my senior staff,” he continues, “and they are quite eager to resume using it.”
Sisko, in a tone that is somehow more dismissive and disinterested than not even responding: “Really.”
Oh yes really. In fact, it’s based on an Earth game.
We don’t even hear Solok say it, we just cut to Ben bouncing up to Kira like “Colonel, gather the team! I mean crew. I mean TEAM.”
Hey Tarra! I finally saw the latest episodes of American Gods and am on a Fuller-high and I was wondering, are you watching the series too? Or at least, do you have plans to do any recaps in the foreseeable future? I'd love to read your take on another gothic fever art dream of Fuller's mind (this time with buffalos instead of deers). May you have a lovely week! :)
Hi there!! This is such a sweet message, which is why I’m sorry to say I have not been watching American Godz. There was just too much, too too much. I will watch it someday though! Probably once the season wraps and I can get a week free Starz trial and slam the thing.
That said, and again I’m sorry, but the odds of me doing episode recaps are very slim. Recapping is just such a huge time commitment, and I don’t anticipate this being a show I’m going to want/need to spend so many midnight hours with. This is mostly because of how I feel about Gaiman’s novel: I like talking about what I find flawed about the book more than I like talking about the story itself, and I can probably just look at how the show intersects with that in one post, and then have time to maybe watch movies again! (tiny sob)
Except not to calculate the volume of love I have for this show BECAUSE WE WILL BE HERE ALL DAY
Season 1, ‘Chapter 8’
Ch. 8 begins unlike any of the previous episodes, and I’m not even talking about how the show that hasn’t had a credits sequence this whole time suddenly OPENS with one — like we’re zoomed up superclose on an old TV screen playing the mod-y green and purple rectangles that usually end the episodes, like an abstracton an abstract, (frick), scored with this JAUNTY CREEPY HARPSICHORD?
But the harpsichord takes us right to the difference I actually mean: Ch. 8 starts off like an episode of Hannibal.
Though they’re mentioned in the same sentence a lot, I actually don’t find Legion to be that similar to Hannibal usually! I feel they have more overlaps than they do similarities, if that makes sense? Sure on paper they share a number of themes and features, things like “radically sensory form of storytelling” and “interest in psychology/psychiatry” and “unstable male lead provides predictably unstable vantage point on proceedings.” But in manner — in tone, in sense of humor — they’re totally different colors.
Which is what makes the first sequence of Ch. 8 stand out so much, because here I suddenly see Noah Hawley’s #confirmed love for Bryan Fuller’s Hannibal in a major way. On a broad level, pulling us out of the story that was going on to go tell a separate, contained story about someone else — in this case, LINKLATER, oh heck yeah — that is very Hannibal. Wholly somewhere else for an extended period of time, an isolated time dripping mood poem, oh SO Hannibal.
And when it comes to the details, get a peep of THIS:
Aesthetic hospital room, check Morbid obsession with disfigurement, check Absurdly grand home, check Richly patterned pajamas, check Homosexuals, a-check
Because ohho yes, here’s what this sequence reveals straight away, pun intended: OUR INTERROGATOR FROM THE PILOT HAS A LOVING HUSBAND AND SON. LEGION. THAT LAST IS ITALICIZED FOR EMPHASIS BUT YOU CAN’T TELL BECAUSE OF TITLING CONVENTIONS.
