Id say Deep Space Nine does Daddy Issues better than most fictional worlds. There are so many good parental stories to be told here and almost always they get it right.
Poor Odo. His people turn out to be jackasses, his adoptive 'father' is a manipulative git, and his best friend is the criminal he constantly butts heads with. Thank goodness he builds more friendships over time.
Im autistic and while Odo as a charqcter is super different to me, i relate to him in a lot of episodes that focus on him, this one being no exception. The way Dr Mora treats him is so familiar to ways my family have treated me growing up- constantly talking over me and questioning the people i consider friends and loved ones, and repeatedly insisting that im never going to be fully independent and that i should move back in with my parents or im going to suffer with adulthood. Instead of being treated like a human adult i am treated like a puppy who can do a couple cool tricks (from the way mum talks about me to people...in front of me). It really makes it hard for me not to hate Dr Mora because it doesnt feel fair for Odo, just like it doesnt feel fair for me
@dyne313 it takes 2 extra mins to get to west coast I get it at 9:47 ... I thought he posted at 47 for obvious reasons ... I hope he dosent make me clean out the holodeck filters again
I do love the detail of Ferengi bodies being sold after death, and how Quark was selling off bogus disks. For what it's worth, I do believe Quark was deceived for once and thought they where genuine. I liked this episode a fair bit as it gives Odo alot of backstory whilst still keeping his origin a mystery. Dr Mora does feel like a dad who's little too proud of himself and of what his child has done rather than of who the child has become. I do like these hints as to Odo's origin and the planet they visited could be linked to the ancient past of the shape shifters, possibly even their origin in solid forms. Odo as a monster is ok but not amazing, and Dr Mora ranting at Odo about being locked away or being in a zoo felt like it came out of no where. Still, a decent outing.
It would be VERY Ferengi to take the discs of loved ones that no one wanted to buy, then to just relabel them and sell them off as pieces of famous/infamous Ferengi as well.
DO 👏 NOT 👏 overcompensate for being sick. You posted the "I'm sick--it'll be late" video and that's all you needed to do. And then you posted yesterday's video and now this today. Don't feel obligated to us. I'm a patron and I'd rather you have a buffer of a video for the next time when you're sick rather than do more now. (At least, that's what this spicy brain thinks might be happening in your spicy brain. Seriously, nothing but love.)
You're not entirely wrong about feeling a need to compensate, though this is also a calculated choice. My throat still isn't right, but recording isn't making it any *less* right. If it was causing actual harm I'd stop. The recovery isn't going quickly so, realistically, I either carry on as is or wait for an indefinite return date. That's not something I can realistically do. I promise you continuing is having no measurable negative impact on my health or recovery. I spend half the day coughing whether I record or not so I may as well get on with it. That's actually better for my mental health right now as the distraction is useful.
15:40 I always considered this to be an OCD thing that Odo seems to have, and this is just an early hint/indication. Odo seemed a bit stressed at the time and the OCD he has about everything being exactly where it was left can trigger more stress. It might have contributed to his mental state going into disarray, though the lion share of that was caused by the Doctor.
They were on Delta Shift, Space and Skull Dogs, that's why you never saw them (PS, nice to show the original Janeway). This episode was trying to do a lot of heavy lifting within the confines of time and format. I felt it succeeded to a large degree.
i see this so differently now, i had a narcissistic mother and thought this was a lovely family reunion episode. now after a fair amount of therapy, i see how horrid this relationship was. thank God for the NHS
the space dog plot thickens. have they perhaps time traveled to an alternate? that they never met the frenchies because they ARE them in this world? wheels within wheels. yeah i know, silly stuff to play over the credits, but i am a massive nerd.
As a boy I knew of stories of people with my condition (osteogenesis imperfecta) who lived in institutions and were maybe experimented on. I did not experience that but one doctor basically said I would be of more value as an experiment than anything. And online when I said that story someone actually said "did you ever consider he was right?" Also people would come to see me to ask if I could talk. Not saying my life was bad, it wasn't, and I was raised by my parents not an institution. Still to a degree I think I might have seen Mora as more like those doctors at institutions many kids like me ended up in than as a Dad. Granted I'm not totally sure how I felt when I saw this episode new, but I think I was largely unsympathetic to Mora. I could see forgiving him and also not wanting him to be in my life at all. (Like "I don't think you're a bad man, but your part of a past I have moved away from so you're not relevant to my life now.")
you know you are in deep f'ed up territory and it becomes almost impossible to find a solution when reversing the polarity is NOT an option! kudos for them to still manage to pull it off!
I can imagine someone in the moment convincing themselves that they're not being selfish or manipulative, and for it to not even have consciously occurred to them that that's what they might be doing. Which wouldn't change the fact that that's exactly what they were doing, or even that they didn't mean to do it on some level. Our minds are interesting in that we give ourselves little outs by not considering things with conscious language. Some part of him may well have calculated "here's my chance to get Odo back in my lab", but only in an abstract, emotional sense, and not with words spelled out in his mind. It's one of the many ways our own brains can give us plausible deniability in spite of them, deep down, knowing exactly what they're doing. (Which isn't always the case, a person can genuinely just make a mistake without part of them scheming behind the scenes, but that's less likely when there's something selfish they definitely want that the act they're doing might get them.)
Hey Unlimited Lives, pilfering the stone monolith must drive must drive archaeologists nuts, Sisko wonders if Dax should be released from infirmary, Dax says she snuck out wearing a gown that didn't close in back, doesn't Bashir have authority to keep there if he want to? & why was Dax wearing a gown that didn't close in back when O'Brien wears one two shows later that does? Did Bashir arrange 4 Dax 2 wear a gown that didn't close in back & enjoyed watching her sneak out of infirmary that he judged her healthy enough 2 leave? When O'Brien crawls thru conduit he says thru his communicator "it almost sounds like...... i can't describe it"? How about "a low moaning accompanied by a clinking sound"? With Bajorans believing in the prophets why does Mora say "Dear god, what have i done"? At the end Odo collapses in exhaustion he's blobby monster yet he morphs into humanoid shape as he falls 2 the floor, shouldn't he turn into a liquid if he's that worn out? Mora scooping up liquid while saying "We have a lot to talk about" probably won't have the same impact & his clothes should melt as well. Also why is Odo gasping 4 air if he doesn't have respiratory system? At the beginning of episode Odo is using pretense when talking 2 Quark about death rituals. Isn't it a ruse 2 draw out truth that Quark isn't selling pieces of Plegg because Plegg is still alive & Odo does't use pretense according to "Past Prologue". Nog really is back @ school. When Dax beams up stone monolith the ground starts shaking, she tells computer realign transporter, it takes a really long time 4 this happen. Then 4 people are transported but "The Homecoming" seems to indicate only 2 at once? Let's ignore Dax being a trill because in TNG "The Host" Trill symbionts are damaged by transporters? At least Sisko got a better pillow!
3:11 Even on my phone, with the brightness turned all the way down, it does look like a painting. What is this? A stage play? How did they ever get away with this?
@@Jamie_E_Pritchardprobably too obvious (and unnecessarily complicated to shoot), especially since they had already gone to that well with Data and Dr. Soong.
My bet? A warning sign. "Warning. Sensitive mining area. Use of teleporters may result in unpredictable seismic activity and is strictly prohibited. NO TELEPORTING. Fines of up to £150 may be issued."
