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Bookish, arty, science loving leftist Trekkie, partner, cat daddy, invisibly disabled, woke, European. “Big Starfleet Nerd is an accurate description.” He/him. https://linktr.ee/michaelangie

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Michael 🖖🏻💙🎶🎨🇵🇸🐈 @michaelangie.bsky.social · Jun 26

So here’s my latest labour of love, a piece on Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me, one of my favourite films. Inevitably it’s subjective (I sobbed at the end of my recent rewatch!), but I don’t mind that & am quite happy with it. 🙂 beyondthatnextstar.blogspot.com/2025/06/laur... #TwinPeaks #DavidLynch

Laura was the One: Trauma and Transcendence in Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me

CONTENT WARNING / TRIGGER WARNING: This review discusses themes of sexual assault, incest and murder, though it doesn’t include graphic de...

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Michael 🖖🏻💙🎶🎨🇵🇸🐈 @michaelangie.bsky.social · 34m

Such sad news about Diane Keaton! Here she is on Santa Monica Beach (1997), photographed by Annie Leibovitz.

Black and white photograph by Annie Leibovitz of Diane Keaton wearing a black hat and sunglasses, reclining on a beach with four big dogs.

Michael 🖖🏻💙🎶🎨🇵🇸🐈 @michaelangie.bsky.social · 1h

Oh, that’s really interesting & somehow not what I expected! For me it’s the opposite; I feel uncomfortable or frustrated if I feel I’m imagining a scene “wrong”, such as a room being too modern, etc. Which happens quite often!

Michael 🖖🏻💙🎶🎨🇵🇸🐈 @michaelangie.bsky.social · 1h

Aww, thank you, that means a lot! I felt very involved in the characters’ lives, especially in S3 & S4. I’ll miss them, although I’ll soon be back on my DS9 rewatch! And maybe a bit of a break from writing threads! 😊💜

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Michael 🖖🏻💙🎶🎨🇵🇸🐈 @michaelangie.bsky.social · 1h

The Small Drawing-Room: Madame Hessel at Her Sewing Table (1917), by Édouard Vuillard

Painting by Édouard Vuillard of a woman sewing by the light of a yellow lamp.

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Michael 🖖🏻💙🎶🎨🇵🇸🐈 @michaelangie.bsky.social · 2h

Nude (Margrethe) (1923), by Edward Weston

Black and white photograph by Edward Weston of a nude woman sitting in a chair, facing to the right, on a wooden floor against a shiny metallic background.

Michael 🖖🏻💙🎶🎨🇵🇸🐈 @michaelangie.bsky.social · 2h

Reapers Resting in a Wheat Field (1885), by John Singer Sargent

Painting by John Singer Sargent of a wheat field with trees in the distance, and reapers resting by some haystacks.

Michael 🖖🏻💙🎶🎨🇵🇸🐈 @michaelangie.bsky.social · 2h

Ah, not at all - I enjoy the interaction! 🖖🏼

Michael 🖖🏻💙🎶🎨🇵🇸🐈 @michaelangie.bsky.social · 2h

Thank you so much. My sister has had a tougher time with it than me, I think, but I can’t imagine having lost her as well. As well as missing family, it’s left me with a heightened death anxiety because life feels so much less safe & secure.

Michael 🖖🏻💙🎶🎨🇵🇸🐈 @michaelangie.bsky.social · 2h

It’s not at all weird when you’ve lost you brother. And yes, Lulu Wilson was wonderful. She was almost like the soul of the episode in a way.

Michael 🖖🏻💙🎶🎨🇵🇸🐈 @michaelangie.bsky.social · 2h

Oh, what a close parallel to your own life in that episode! It must have been so tough for you. A friend of mine was similarly hit by Yvette Picard’s story in S2, & it profoundly affected how they felt about the whole season. Sometimes even beloved series are just too close to home.

Michael 🖖🏻💙🎶🎨🇵🇸🐈 @michaelangie.bsky.social · 2h

You’re welcome - thank you for reading it! Yes, S1 was definitely about grief; no coincidence that Episode 1 was called “Remembrance”. I love how the theme is expressed in so many varied ways - it’s very rich & layered writing, especially in the first eight episodes, I think.

Michael 🖖🏻💙🎶🎨🇵🇸🐈 @michaelangie.bsky.social · 2h

Le Moulin du Kalf à Knokke, by Théo van Rysselberghe

Pointillist painting by Théo van Rysselberghe of a windmill on a hill in sunshine.

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Michael 🖖🏻💙🎶🎨🇵🇸🐈 @michaelangie.bsky.social · 4h

Yes, of course, here it is: beyondthatnextstar.blogspot.com/2021/07/to-q... And thank you for expressing interest in it. I can understand why the episode was hard for you. And I’m so sorry about your brother’s death. I’ve had a lot of family bereavements since 2020 - it’s not easy, to say the least.

“To Quiet all Pain and Strife”: Thoughts on “Nepenthe”

“Helen, daughter of Zeus, took other counsel. Straightway she cast into the wine of which they were drinking a drug to quiet all pain and st...

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Michael 🖖🏻💙🎶🎨🇵🇸🐈 @michaelangie.bsky.social · 4h

Indeed, yes. People (with good reason) remember Nepenthe as an episode like a warm, soft blanket, but I wrote a blog post once about how I think the whole thing is about grief. And the characters’ very different responses to it.

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Michael 🖖🏻💙🎶🎨🇵🇸🐈 @michaelangie.bsky.social · 4h

Absolutely, yes. The whole is kind of unsatisfying in a unique way, but there are so many wonderful moments & performances.

I don’t watch it often myself! It’s only because I was finishing a series rewatch. 🙂 And I can understand people seeing “Terra Prime” as the finale, but they’d miss so much.

Michael 🖖🏻💙🎶🎨🇵🇸🐈 @michaelangie.bsky.social · 4h

Yes, Marina in that was so moving.

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Michael 🖖🏻💙🎶🎨🇵🇸🐈 @michaelangie.bsky.social · 5h

Thank you so much! I’m so tired of hearing people say the same old things. And it takes me a lot of effort to write & post a thread this long! So I wanted it to be a labour of love. I noticed things in the episode this time that I’d completely forgotten, like this:

T’Pol’s hand on Shran’s shoulder, as Shran looks up with gratitude, in the Star Trek: Enterprise episode “These Are The Voyages…”

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Michael 🖖🏻💙🎶🎨🇵🇸🐈 @michaelangie.bsky.social · 5h

#ArtistFave15 J. S. BACH
#MusicChallenge Day 12

Violin Partita No 2 in D minor (V: Ciaccona) www.youtube.com/watch?v=96KP...

Cumulatively powerful, & perhaps the greatest single piece of music ever written for the solo fiddle.

Violin Partita No. 2 in D Minor, BWV 1004: V. Ciaccona

YouTube video by Julia Fischer - Topic

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Michael 🖖🏻💙🎶🎨🇵🇸🐈 @michaelangie.bsky.social · 5h

Looking across the northern Sahara from the ISS, with sun glint on the Gibraltar Strait in the distance.

A photograph from the ISS, looking across the northern Sahara with sun glint on the Gibraltar Strait far in the distance.

Michael 🖖🏻💙🎶🎨🇵🇸🐈 @michaelangie.bsky.social · 5h

(23/23) But in at least two places, it made me tear up. Which is a remarkable thing in such a problematic episode, & I absolutely love it for that. #StarTrekEnterprise #carrotcrew

The NX-01 Enterprise flying towards a nebula, in the final shot of the Star Trek: Enterprise episode “These Are The Voyages…”

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Michael 🖖🏻💙🎶🎨🇵🇸🐈 @michaelangie.bsky.social · 5h

(22/23) Understandably, none of the actors were happy about this epilogue, yet they gave it their all & that fills me with gratitude. I can see what the writers were trying to do, & I wish they hadn’t because it wasn’t necessary. It causes awkwardnesses for any fan of these characters.

Archer (Scott Bakula) walking up to the stage, with T’Pol (Jolene Blalock) watching him, in the Star Trek: Enterprise episode “These Are The Voyages…”

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Michael 🖖🏻💙🎶🎨🇵🇸🐈 @michaelangie.bsky.social · 5h

(21/23) It’s the final, perfect bookend to their first meeting, four seasons & a million years ago. Archer had threatened to physically assault her. And now this. Their arc has always been the main theme of Enterprise, expressed on a personal scale, & it reaches its final point of rest right here.

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Michael 🖖🏻💙🎶🎨🇵🇸🐈 @michaelangie.bsky.social · 5h

(20/23) A human & two aliens, together in the show for the last time. And once they’re alone, T’Pol… oh my…

“You look very heroic.” It is, as I heard someone remark on a podcast, the clearest expression of platonic love we can imagine from T’Pol. And recognising this, Archer turns back to hug her.

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Michael 🖖🏻💙🎶🎨🇵🇸🐈 @michaelangie.bsky.social · 5h

(19/23) And there’s one scene that isn’t part of the holo program at all. Archer, Phlox & T’Pol backstage, the captain pacing nervously, T’Pol wonderfully fussing over him in a motherly way… And Riker & Troi aren’t there! The framing falls away, & we see these people as they “really” were.

T’Pol (Jolene Blalock) buttoning Archer’s shirt in the Star Trek: Enterprise episode “These Are The Voyages…”

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Michael 🖖🏻💙🎶🎨🇵🇸🐈 @michaelangie.bsky.social · 6h

(18/23) Well, so much in #StarTrek is magic anyway. So with the obvious exception of the Chef scenes, there may be some in universe explanation for the characters’ utter verisimilitude. It’s still hard for me to make the constant mental adjustment, but maybe this is exactly how it all “happened”.

T’Pol (Jolene Blalock) and Archer (Scott Bakula) in the Star Trek: Enterprise episode “These Are The Voyages…”

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