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M. came over for a visit.
A. had her online playdate with K.
My MIL was on family zoom, but no one else outside our family.
It was a quiet day, which was fine. A. did a bunch of beatsaber on oculus (I keep thinking that is beatsaver, which of course makes even less sense). I made banana bread. We did the sheets. I vacuumed the master suite and hallway.
When I went down to the freezer to find something to thaw to cook over the next few days (I ate the last of the steak I had cooked for T.’s steak sandwiches), I saw some beef shoulder tenders, and I didn’t know what those were. Turns out they are the teres major cut that my BIL was raving about and that I had a reference to sitting in my Note file for … months, maybe a year or more. I learn new things every day.
Yesterday evening, I watched things. I watched “Tsunkatse”, an episode of Star Trek: Voyager which had “The Rock” (Dwayne Johnson, but listed as “The Rock”) on it. My friend I. mentioned it when she was binging ST:V on Netflix; they didn’t still have ST:V, but I bought the episode over on Amazon and watched it after checking out a clip on YouTube of Johnson’s entrance. It looked goofy and I never have watched very many ST:V episodes.
In this episode, some of the crew has Shore Leave and many of them go to see a major entertainment form which is Tsunkatse fighting, one on one in a ring with low walls. Meanwhile, the Captain is off doing … something elsewhere leaving Chokotay in charge. He then delegates so he can go have shore leave as well. Also Meanwhile, Tuvok and 7 of 9 go off to Science something because they are not interested in this Shore Leave / Entertainment thing, or at least, not as much as the Science.
One theme of the episode is trafficking (I know, you didn’t see that coming either, right?!?) to get fighters for the Tsunkatse entertainment. The crew on leave don’t consider where the fighters are coming from (much less why any of them might be willing to participate in a deathmatch) until they see 7 of 9 and then try to rescue her. Initial efforts to involve the local government run up against a wall of indifference; they are too interested in the tourism money to worry about a little thing like trafficking.
Another theme of the episode is the nature of socializing. There’s the usual teasing of Tuvok and 7 of 9 for having less “normal” styles of interaction, and unsolicited advice given on how they can get “better” at socializing. Meanwhile, the most “normal” people are down enjoying the violent exploitation, while the “less good at it” folx go off to science and wind up trafficked into the fighting. The “less good at it” Tuvok and 7 of 9 have heartwarming discussions of long silences and whether they are awkward or not, what they think of the “normal” people’s interaction styles, and eventually discussion of whether 7 of 9’s loss of control while experiencing powerful negative emotions like shame indicate a lapse in her efforts to regain her humanity or indicate that she is indeed succeeding in that project. (Tuvok lands firmly on the latter.)
If I thought there was any chance the series as a whole would be like this, I’d binge watch it. Alas, I do not.
The Rock is just playing The Rock in Tsunkatse, and definitely at the eviller end of the spectrum of The Rock’s persona (probably _past_ the evil end, honestly). Fun to see him here, tho.
I also watched _Riders of Justice_ (the subtitled one, as I am doing a little Danish in Duolingo and figured the practice would not hurt). My second cousin in the UK had recommended it highly (also while it was on Netflix, and also not still on Netflix, so also I bought it on Amazon), and it turns out that my cousin J. also really enjoyed it. I was expecting bonkers funny action a la Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, however, in addition to the expected, I got a very satisfying ending, and a ton of interesting psychological character development, and insights into how people try to find or make meaning in their lives, how that fails, and what they do next. Found family, FTW, which I always love. More trafficking themes in this as well.
A. had her online playdate with K.
My MIL was on family zoom, but no one else outside our family.
It was a quiet day, which was fine. A. did a bunch of beatsaber on oculus (I keep thinking that is beatsaver, which of course makes even less sense). I made banana bread. We did the sheets. I vacuumed the master suite and hallway.
When I went down to the freezer to find something to thaw to cook over the next few days (I ate the last of the steak I had cooked for T.’s steak sandwiches), I saw some beef shoulder tenders, and I didn’t know what those were. Turns out they are the teres major cut that my BIL was raving about and that I had a reference to sitting in my Note file for … months, maybe a year or more. I learn new things every day.
Yesterday evening, I watched things. I watched “Tsunkatse”, an episode of Star Trek: Voyager which had “The Rock” (Dwayne Johnson, but listed as “The Rock”) on it. My friend I. mentioned it when she was binging ST:V on Netflix; they didn’t still have ST:V, but I bought the episode over on Amazon and watched it after checking out a clip on YouTube of Johnson’s entrance. It looked goofy and I never have watched very many ST:V episodes.
In this episode, some of the crew has Shore Leave and many of them go to see a major entertainment form which is Tsunkatse fighting, one on one in a ring with low walls. Meanwhile, the Captain is off doing … something elsewhere leaving Chokotay in charge. He then delegates so he can go have shore leave as well. Also Meanwhile, Tuvok and 7 of 9 go off to Science something because they are not interested in this Shore Leave / Entertainment thing, or at least, not as much as the Science.
One theme of the episode is trafficking (I know, you didn’t see that coming either, right?!?) to get fighters for the Tsunkatse entertainment. The crew on leave don’t consider where the fighters are coming from (much less why any of them might be willing to participate in a deathmatch) until they see 7 of 9 and then try to rescue her. Initial efforts to involve the local government run up against a wall of indifference; they are too interested in the tourism money to worry about a little thing like trafficking.
Another theme of the episode is the nature of socializing. There’s the usual teasing of Tuvok and 7 of 9 for having less “normal” styles of interaction, and unsolicited advice given on how they can get “better” at socializing. Meanwhile, the most “normal” people are down enjoying the violent exploitation, while the “less good at it” folx go off to science and wind up trafficked into the fighting. The “less good at it” Tuvok and 7 of 9 have heartwarming discussions of long silences and whether they are awkward or not, what they think of the “normal” people’s interaction styles, and eventually discussion of whether 7 of 9’s loss of control while experiencing powerful negative emotions like shame indicate a lapse in her efforts to regain her humanity or indicate that she is indeed succeeding in that project. (Tuvok lands firmly on the latter.)
If I thought there was any chance the series as a whole would be like this, I’d binge watch it. Alas, I do not.
The Rock is just playing The Rock in Tsunkatse, and definitely at the eviller end of the spectrum of The Rock’s persona (probably _past_ the evil end, honestly). Fun to see him here, tho.
I also watched _Riders of Justice_ (the subtitled one, as I am doing a little Danish in Duolingo and figured the practice would not hurt). My second cousin in the UK had recommended it highly (also while it was on Netflix, and also not still on Netflix, so also I bought it on Amazon), and it turns out that my cousin J. also really enjoyed it. I was expecting bonkers funny action a la Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, however, in addition to the expected, I got a very satisfying ending, and a ton of interesting psychological character development, and insights into how people try to find or make meaning in their lives, how that fails, and what they do next. Found family, FTW, which I always love. More trafficking themes in this as well.