A mindflayer by any other name
Mar. 15th, 2023 10:50 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shadowhiveSo the fuzziness has continued into today. I’m trying to tell if it’s a mental health thing, or if it’s whatever made me feel ill Sunday or that I over exerted myself yesterday. Or if it’s some combo of all of the above. Either way it’s annoying and is draining me.
It seems there are at least two Doctor Who spin offs incoming and one of which is gonna be a UNIT series headed by Kate Stewart which I’m all here for (please let Osgood be there too). It’ll be curious how they handle things cause I know there’s been an audio series that’s Unit based already (that I’m curious about, it’s had Autons, the master, the silence and silurians among other things) so will it contradict it? Will it adapt some of the audios as live action? Or will there just be hints that link them. I guess we’ll see.
Other tv news is that Willow has apparently been cancelled which sucks because it was so great and had such a potential (especilaly since it seems there was two seasons planned). Hopefully there’s enough backlash to get them to backtrack, or that it’s wrong to begin with.
Lastly is thoughts on The Mandalorian (I dunno if anyone reads these but…
This week’s ep was very much a tale of two parts.
The first part was the direct continuation of last week, with The Mandalorian and Bo leaving the mines (alas there’s nothing about the creature bo saw this week, but seeing it seems to have effected her). They leave Mandalore, head to Bo’s castle and… get attacked on the way. There’s a cool chase but it proves to be a distraction for the destruction of Bo’s castle (which pisses her off)
This ep leaves it a mystery who exactly was behind it, though Bo comments she has pissed off people, but most like it’s Gideon or an ally of his.
The end of the ep returns to them where they return to the other Mandalorians from the first ep and they’re both welcomed for bathing in the living waters. It’s played out like it’s a good thing, but honestly? I dunno. The way mandlalorians just seem…. Strange and culty and I’m not sure either of them should be with them.I don’t think either of them are safe there, especially Bo.
However the main ep was actually about Doctor Pershing, which explains why the recap started with him. He’s been rehabilitated and is now working for the new republic but the whole thing is… odd.
First off he’s shown in a theatre, the exact same one scene in Revenge Of The Sith. There, in front of a huge audience of Coruscant natives (apparently rich people) he tells his story, about his research and what he hoped to do with it.
…which makes it all the more strange that the work he’s doing doesn’t involve his research at all (because cloning is now, apparently, banned). Even with a ban he’s still a scientist and researcher he could be useful in other ways but instead they just have him doing… filing.
Not only that but the place he is house is odd. He’s with other ex-imperials which isn’t necessarily odd in and off itself, but it is odd that when they introduce themselves they don’t give names but numbers. He ends up befriending one person (who is the main one we end up seeing) who is from Gideon ship (we don’t even find out her name until much later which, again, seems odd).
We get to see a lot of Coruscant in this ep and it’s beautiful. Andor’s Coruscant was so stark but this was so pretty. Maybe it was because it was night for most of it and it included the plaza from the peak of the planet (and there was glowing ice lollies)
It was pretty obvious that Kane was manipulating Pershing to continue his research and I really felt for him, because he truly wanted to do good with his work. He really wants to save lives and help people and yet he was taken advantage of. It leads him to be taken to a part of Coruscant where star destroyers are being decommissioned and then,,. He gets captured.
But not by imperials like I thought, but by New Republic police. So it seems Kane was working with them to intentionally trap him (which seems cruel, who approved that??). But then later it seems she did that just to… what? He gets strapped down to have something done to him and she alters the setting, presumably to erase his memory or otherwise damage it so is she still working with Gideon? (And if she is why do it now, because surely by now he would have already told someone all he knew about him as part of his rehabilitation. And wouldn’t he be much more valuable to Gideon with his knowledge intact?)
The whole treatment of Pershing by the New Republic is just odd. You wheel him out as a success story, put him in a dead end position, manipulate him and then do that to him.
In fact I think it shows on screen, and at other points, how odd the New Republic has been. There’s still imperial factions out there so what’s the Republic doing? Decommissioning the alliance fleet. There’s imperial tech that’s been captured and instead of making use of it, they scrap it even if it’s perfectly useable. They rehabilitate ex-imperials but still have a ‘mind flayer device’ to use on them just in case.
Stuff like this shows that the New Republic was destined to fail.
It’ll be interesting seeing how this side of the story will pay off, because it feels like what was done to him was done by Kane for a very intentional reason but what?
But that was a long ramble. I feel this is gonna be an ep that’ll divide option because of that middle section, but it also feel like it was done for an intentional reason that we’ll discover later on.
I’m gonna finish Jack’s stream, do some sonic frontiers and likely curl up and zzz, hopefully this fuzziness will end up shooing too)
(Last post also has links to ama and other things too)
It seems there are at least two Doctor Who spin offs incoming and one of which is gonna be a UNIT series headed by Kate Stewart which I’m all here for (please let Osgood be there too). It’ll be curious how they handle things cause I know there’s been an audio series that’s Unit based already (that I’m curious about, it’s had Autons, the master, the silence and silurians among other things) so will it contradict it? Will it adapt some of the audios as live action? Or will there just be hints that link them. I guess we’ll see.
Other tv news is that Willow has apparently been cancelled which sucks because it was so great and had such a potential (especilaly since it seems there was two seasons planned). Hopefully there’s enough backlash to get them to backtrack, or that it’s wrong to begin with.
Lastly is thoughts on The Mandalorian (I dunno if anyone reads these but…
This week’s ep was very much a tale of two parts.
The first part was the direct continuation of last week, with The Mandalorian and Bo leaving the mines (alas there’s nothing about the creature bo saw this week, but seeing it seems to have effected her). They leave Mandalore, head to Bo’s castle and… get attacked on the way. There’s a cool chase but it proves to be a distraction for the destruction of Bo’s castle (which pisses her off)
This ep leaves it a mystery who exactly was behind it, though Bo comments she has pissed off people, but most like it’s Gideon or an ally of his.
The end of the ep returns to them where they return to the other Mandalorians from the first ep and they’re both welcomed for bathing in the living waters. It’s played out like it’s a good thing, but honestly? I dunno. The way mandlalorians just seem…. Strange and culty and I’m not sure either of them should be with them.I don’t think either of them are safe there, especially Bo.
However the main ep was actually about Doctor Pershing, which explains why the recap started with him. He’s been rehabilitated and is now working for the new republic but the whole thing is… odd.
First off he’s shown in a theatre, the exact same one scene in Revenge Of The Sith. There, in front of a huge audience of Coruscant natives (apparently rich people) he tells his story, about his research and what he hoped to do with it.
…which makes it all the more strange that the work he’s doing doesn’t involve his research at all (because cloning is now, apparently, banned). Even with a ban he’s still a scientist and researcher he could be useful in other ways but instead they just have him doing… filing.
Not only that but the place he is house is odd. He’s with other ex-imperials which isn’t necessarily odd in and off itself, but it is odd that when they introduce themselves they don’t give names but numbers. He ends up befriending one person (who is the main one we end up seeing) who is from Gideon ship (we don’t even find out her name until much later which, again, seems odd).
We get to see a lot of Coruscant in this ep and it’s beautiful. Andor’s Coruscant was so stark but this was so pretty. Maybe it was because it was night for most of it and it included the plaza from the peak of the planet (and there was glowing ice lollies)
It was pretty obvious that Kane was manipulating Pershing to continue his research and I really felt for him, because he truly wanted to do good with his work. He really wants to save lives and help people and yet he was taken advantage of. It leads him to be taken to a part of Coruscant where star destroyers are being decommissioned and then,,. He gets captured.
But not by imperials like I thought, but by New Republic police. So it seems Kane was working with them to intentionally trap him (which seems cruel, who approved that??). But then later it seems she did that just to… what? He gets strapped down to have something done to him and she alters the setting, presumably to erase his memory or otherwise damage it so is she still working with Gideon? (And if she is why do it now, because surely by now he would have already told someone all he knew about him as part of his rehabilitation. And wouldn’t he be much more valuable to Gideon with his knowledge intact?)
The whole treatment of Pershing by the New Republic is just odd. You wheel him out as a success story, put him in a dead end position, manipulate him and then do that to him.
In fact I think it shows on screen, and at other points, how odd the New Republic has been. There’s still imperial factions out there so what’s the Republic doing? Decommissioning the alliance fleet. There’s imperial tech that’s been captured and instead of making use of it, they scrap it even if it’s perfectly useable. They rehabilitate ex-imperials but still have a ‘mind flayer device’ to use on them just in case.
Stuff like this shows that the New Republic was destined to fail.
It’ll be interesting seeing how this side of the story will pay off, because it feels like what was done to him was done by Kane for a very intentional reason but what?
But that was a long ramble. I feel this is gonna be an ep that’ll divide option because of that middle section, but it also feel like it was done for an intentional reason that we’ll discover later on.
I’m gonna finish Jack’s stream, do some sonic frontiers and likely curl up and zzz, hopefully this fuzziness will end up shooing too)
(Last post also has links to ama and other things too)
