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crow of the day is: watching traffic
This time it's a twofer! Two reviews in the "compact" form of one.
Over the last month or two I've been watching Prodigy, Lower Decks and Strange New Worlds with my boyfriend, in what started as a sort of morbid curiosity for Prodigy with its apparent sequel to voyager scenario writing which truly did fascinate me from the get go. Unfortunately this is not a review which includes Prodigy since in its current turbulent state I cannot really say much other than "Towards the very end they pulled it all together and made a show I was enthralled in" but it was rocky, very rock up to that point.
After watching Prodigy though, Elliot and I set out upon watching more modern trek that we didn't have opinions on prior. Of course the shows in question are Strange New Worlds and Lower Decks. We started with Lower Decks since it was the most "ripping off a band-aid" I think we could get what with the art style being reminiscent of modern adult cartoons like, Bighead and, the one with the dog, etc. But after a bit it did get us, and we decided to watch Strange New Worlds as well due to it having that fun little crossover episode. Review/Thoughts on both under the cut!
The adage that you can 'never go home again' is oft-repeated, and I think it's worth reflecting on. When we leave the nest to live a new life in a new place, doing so changes us, and the places we grew up change in our absence. As Tim Rogers puts it, "Places do not remember us." But what's even more dramatically true is that you can never go back to school again. One's childhood, at least, has some sprawl to it, stretching over years. We rarely spend more than a handful of years in a given educational context, and education (if it's doing anything right at all) transforms the person receiving it.
So I will never again sit in a classroom as a student, not as I was. Those classrooms remain, but those classes are gone, as is the person I was and the era within which I was embedded. And something I've learned in that time, and continue to learn: How narrow and fleeting this sliver that is "today."
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