Enterprise 4.03: Home
Oct. 24th, 2004 11:09 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
trishkitSqueeeeeeeeeeeeee!
After a disappointing season opener the Enterprise that I love is back.
And the cuteness is overpowering.
It's all about Trip and T'Pol, man. They are just so adorable.
I loved watching Trip play up the pity angle to wangle an invite from T'Pol. Sure, there is some truth to what he said, and I'm sure he wasn't quite expecting to go to Vulcan, but he seemed mighty pleased with the results of his manipulation.
T'Les rocks! Seeing T'Pol around her made me realize how young she must be. If they've ever established how old T'Pol is I must have missed it, because I have no idea. All the same, I've always thought that she was a little wet behind the ears. Once back home, that impression was even stronger. I wish that we could have seen more mother/daughter interaction, especially in light of T'Pol's personality changes.
How cute were Trip and T'Les together? T'Pol is certainly her mother's daughter, judging by the speed at which T'Les got Trip's number. Poor boy didn't even see it coming. And he looooooves her! Eeeeeeee! I thought that the scene also proved that T'Les loved her daughter, even though she'd probably never tell her. Damn Vulcans.
Kos is creepy and I want to forget that he exists. So does T'Pol, I bet.
And T'Pol called Trip "Trip"! And she kissed him! Hell, she dragged him to Vulcan. She looooooves him too!
*pauses to wipe away a tear*
Oh, the angst is going to be so very, very good.
Oh yeah, in other news: Archer is annoying, Hoshi and Mayweather need more lines, Phlox has an exploding head and Reed tries waaaay too hard. Nothing new to see here.
After a disappointing season opener the Enterprise that I love is back.
And the cuteness is overpowering.
It's all about Trip and T'Pol, man. They are just so adorable.
I loved watching Trip play up the pity angle to wangle an invite from T'Pol. Sure, there is some truth to what he said, and I'm sure he wasn't quite expecting to go to Vulcan, but he seemed mighty pleased with the results of his manipulation.
T'Les rocks! Seeing T'Pol around her made me realize how young she must be. If they've ever established how old T'Pol is I must have missed it, because I have no idea. All the same, I've always thought that she was a little wet behind the ears. Once back home, that impression was even stronger. I wish that we could have seen more mother/daughter interaction, especially in light of T'Pol's personality changes.
How cute were Trip and T'Les together? T'Pol is certainly her mother's daughter, judging by the speed at which T'Les got Trip's number. Poor boy didn't even see it coming. And he looooooves her! Eeeeeeee! I thought that the scene also proved that T'Les loved her daughter, even though she'd probably never tell her. Damn Vulcans.
Kos is creepy and I want to forget that he exists. So does T'Pol, I bet.
And T'Pol called Trip "Trip"! And she kissed him! Hell, she dragged him to Vulcan. She looooooves him too!
*pauses to wipe away a tear*
Oh, the angst is going to be so very, very good.
Oh yeah, in other news: Archer is annoying, Hoshi and Mayweather need more lines, Phlox has an exploding head and Reed tries waaaay too hard. Nothing new to see here.
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Date: 2004-10-24 10:26 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-10-25 06:11 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-10-25 06:19 am (UTC)And T'Pol called Trip "Trip"!
EEEE! I love it when she does that! *bounces*
Phlox has an exploding head
*dies* Best way to put it!
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Date: 2004-10-25 11:09 am (UTC)Thanks for the age info - I'll check it out! You're right that T'Pol's vulnerability is what makes her seem young - that's exactly why I think that of her that way.
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Date: 2004-10-26 01:45 pm (UTC)This episode ROCKED MY WORLD, as I expounded on in great length in my journal. Also, you are so enlisted in the T'Pol's Mom Fan Club. Because she is sodamnedcool. God. LOVE HER. And love how *easily* Vulcan she is especially. She loves T'Pol and doesn't say it and this is NOT a huge angsty contradiction for her. She's not flat or cardboard, she's not freaking out that she will display emotion or doing the space crack... she's just SO COOL!!
And I love love love this look at T'Pol's background and more hints of how she has always been just a bit off... LOVE it.
And Koss does kinda seem like a decent guy. He's so creepy, but in the same way Vorik was creepy on Voyager... it's unmarried-Vulcan-creepy. I don't get the feeling he's at all out to make T'Pol's life miserable, but I also think he is sooooo unprepared to handle her wackiness.
OMG T'Pol's mom is SO CUTE!! They looked so very alike, too. YAY casting job!
Oh yeah, in other news: Archer is annoying, Hoshi and Mayweather need more lines, Phlox has an exploding head and Reed tries waaaay too hard. Nothing new to see here.
HEEE!! So true. I loved Archer's chick, though. :) She also deserves a fan club. Maybe Archer will be better now that he has had the good sex. And I'm pretending that Mayweather took Hoshi home to her parents' where she could get bundled up in blankets and get held and cry and freak out on home soil and stuff, because there is just no reasonable way she can just Be Okay after what happened to her at the end of last season, poor bunny. *pets her* But she's having cute off-screen dates with Mayweather some more, so yay!
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Date: 2004-10-26 02:11 pm (UTC)And love how *easily* Vulcan she is especially.
That's the perfect way to put it! There are so many crappy Vulcans on Star Trek. Or at least, actors who have difficulty portraying Vulcans the way that I imagine that they are supposed to be. For my money, the most kick ass portrayal of a Vulcan recently has been Tim Russ' Tuvok. Now I can add Joanna Cassidy to my list.
I love T'Pol, but she's just not very Vulcan. I was kinda glad when they stopped trying to make her be one. Although, as you said, it does seem that she was always just a little bit off. Now I can just sit back and bask in her adorableness and craziness. LOVE her!
it's unmarried-Vulcan-creepy
Exactly. The bachelors really creep me out. And, yes, Koss has no idea of what is in store for him. Hope he doesn't mind having Trip living in the guest house.
Archer's chick was very cool, I should have mentioned that. I admit that Archer has had a rough year, and I do like him better as a hard ass than as the buddy-buddy captain, but he still annoys me. Immensely.
I love your Hoshi thoughts. I will fondly imagine that is what happened. And we will have the luxury of never being proven wrong since it's not as if they'll ever revisit the issue.
God, I love this show!
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Date: 2004-10-26 02:22 pm (UTC)It's also a total wonder that I haven't written mad amounts of fic for it. Usually the perfect candidate for Little Red Insane Fic-writing is a show that leaves so many character and plot holes, though horribly squeeeful and awesome in other ways (and explosions. like those). I guess the arc of the Expanse kinda choked me -- totally worth it, because I LOVE big arcs, but I don't like to start writing things that will make no sense by the time I'm on page 4 because the next episode changes everything all up.
I love T'Pol, but she's just not very Vulcan.
Love everything you said here. I loved "Carbon Creek", and imagine her as a wee little Vulcan sitting listening to stories of this wild human frontier. And she *is* the first Vulcan to tolerate living with humans for so long... seems some part of her never really wanted to be on Vulcan.
... I wonder if this Koss-betrothal was one of the reasons she left the high command and stayed on Enterprise. Not that I mind if it isn't -- I mean, it was kinda cool that she respected Archer enough and/or was convinced he would get everyone killed without her.
But *bounce bounce bounce* I heart T'Pol, poor little confused Vulcan. I do NOT heart the way she has become everybody's favourite PSA, and I still hate them for the Vulcan AIDS and the time she went into heat and... well, I *did* hate them for the space crack, but that is so bad it's funny.
I do like him better as a hard ass than as the buddy-buddy captain, but he still annoys me.
Yeah. And I really don't want him to. But he annoys me LESS, and I will focus on that.
I love your Hoshi thoughts. I will fondly imagine that is what happened. And we will have the luxury of never being proven wrong since it's not as if they'll ever revisit the issue.
Yes! YAY!!! At the end of last season, I was all "OMG! Archer/Hoshi!" after the last few eps of the arc, but that's done now, so I feel a lot less disturbed by myself and can go back to imagining her having a cute prolonged courtship with Travis and kinda crushing on Trip occasionally, because he's so cute. I really wanted Trip and T'Pol to take her to Vulcan where she could learn to meditate in peace after that mess, but oh well. No one loves Hoshi sufficiently to play house with her. *SIGH*
I really need a Hoshi icon about linguistics. That would kick ass.
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Date: 2004-10-26 02:50 pm (UTC)They have done terrible things to T'Pol in the name of plot, PSAs and gratuitous nudity haven't they? But the greater the awfulness of the plot, the more I loved her. JB gamely soldiered on and managed to create great performances out of some exceptionally lousy scripts. So bad it's funny, indeed.
I wanted to love Archer so much. I had a lot of residual love for Quantum Leap that was just hanging around looking for a home, but unfortunately Archer is just too much of an asshat to deserve it, dammit. He did start to grow on me last season though, so there is hope. I especially loved him Hatchery for some reason.
Hey! I was all Archer/Hoshi at the end of the season too! Cuteness is always the way to go, but I'm also a sucker for the sweetheart/dickhead pairing. Always assuming that the dickhead turns into a goofy sweetheart after the appropriate period of angst, of course.
Poor Hoshi.