Abject Geekery

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What!? You haven’t seen Supernatural?! Christ, are you living in a f**king cave?!

I am a big time genre TV fan. B5, Trek(s), BSG, XFiles, Smallville,  Heroes, TrueBlood, Terminator and all things Whedon flows through my veins.

So, how did I miss Supernatural?

*sigh* I can only blame Smallville.

See, I have a love/hate thing with that show. I love the idea, but HATE 90% of the implementation. That 90% is pure WB/CW formula teen drama pap. And when I saw another genre show coming out of CW, I immediate thought “here we go again” and passed on what I thought was going to be a cheap knock off of Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

As seasons moved by, I noted that the show continued and never really got what I would call “bad” press from those places where reviews matter to me. Even so, I figured that if I am missing something, I am likely not missing much. Six months ago, an eFriend started pushing me toward checking out the show as something “I think you will like”. After much nagging on his part(and a fair bit of forgetfulness on mine), I put the show in my list of things to watch and finally got around to viewing it with SheGan.(who likes “creepy” stuff…me included, I assume)

After the first episode, I was blown away!

Seriously…it was probably the best pilot to a series I’ve seen since Lost. I was immediately hooked on the characters and meta-story… and couldn’t wait to see the next episodes. I was shocked something this good could have strolled out without huge fanfare…at least in the Geekly quarters. But here it was and I dedicated myself to watching as many episodes as I had time in the week.

I’ve recently caught up to the finale of  season 4 and now I want to talk about it a bit.

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Ensign Picard Is Stabbed In The Heart

So I was surfing the channels, and what do I find?  Star Trek: The Next Generation.  But what is more then just finding an episode of that classic series, is finding one that is a favorite of mine: Tapestry.
“There are many parts of my youth that I’m not proud of… there were loose threads… untidy parts of me that I would like to remove. But when I pulled on one of those threads… it had unraveled the tapestry of my life.”

- Picard to Riker

The episode Tapestry is the 140th installment of ST:TNG, and is the 255th release of 726 total Star Trek Television Shows.  It is one of the episodes featuring the always intriguing Q.

The episode begins with Capt. Picard dying on the operating table from a phaser blast to the chest.  When Picard dies he finds that Q is God.

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