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If the process were easier she wouldn’t have been “led” to reassess those priorities.

How does an easier process change her conclusion of, "I would be happier as a nurse?"

Not exactly.

When Tretiak first arrived in Canada in December 2022, she looked into obtaining a license to practice medicine, but the complexity of the process and volume of paperwork led her to reassess her priorities.

That doesn't say she thought it was "too much." It says she decided it wasn't what she wanted to do.

You can argue that the process is too much - and it probably is, at least in places - but she pretty directly states that it led to her deciding that she didn't actually want to be a doctor, and would rather be a nurse.

She says she sees nursing as an opportunity to engage more deeply with patients through communication and empathy. “I feel that I can be a better nurse than a physician,” says Tretiak, who currently works in a retirement home for Ukrainian-speaking older adults.

“I had lost a lot of people already – including many of my friends – and I no longer connected my happiness to my professional goals. It felt impossible to go back to that kind of a life and I didn’t want to sacrifice my time with my family.”

I'm going to suggest we shouldn't force her to do something she doesn't want to do.

I thought there was a bit of a missed opportunity to delve into her training and experiences during the Klingon War. They've used that as part of her backstory, but have given the meatiest stuff to M'Benga and Chapel.

I had an idea for what I would have done with a Disco musical.

Rather than having everyone be forced to sing, the episode would be an actual stage musical put on by the crew in the shuttlebay or someplace.

The plot? The story of first contact with the Vulcans...but the "official," Borg-free version, with a glorified, square-jawed version of Zefram Cochrane.

But when the foreign student cash cow arrived, they pivoted in that direction.

Setting the specific college aside...this is true for pretty much all of them. Government funding and domestic tuition rates simply aren't enough to cover operating costs, and post-secondary institutions have been (over) relying on foreign students for decades.

Sometimes, she crashes the ship!

I thought this one was a perfectly enjoyable, even "classic" (whatever that means) episode - something I'd been hoping for in this season that has seemed a little too "gimmicky" at times.

I wasn't wowed by it, but it was hitting all the right notes.

And then they got to the Metron reveal, and...I just don't know. It serves little purpose aside from connecting dots of continuity, and I just don't find that interesting. It's fine, I guess, but I think the episode would have been better off without it.

I mean, that's pretty standard. They wrote the "Best of Both Worlds" cliffhanger with no idea how they were going to resolve it.

Very, very few shows aren't "made up as they went along".

after the 3 minute mark, timekeeping switches from ‘running time’ to ‘stopped time’

A big fan of this - make the end of the game as dramatic as possible!

Looking forward to the Banjo Bowl - hopefully the home field advantage will help put the Blue over the top.

I can only imagine the tension in the building during the final three minutes...

I'm going to try something different this time and type out my thoughts in real time. That's sure to make them more coherent and less disjointed...right?

The effect of materializing the TARDIS around Rose is cool.

It's interesting that the Doctor talks about the Time War in somewhat abstract terms - it's his people that destroyed the Daleks - but the Dalek Emperor seems to lay the blame more squarely on the Doctor.

This is the first "Oncoming Storm" nickname. I'd honestly forgotten where it came from.

A little convenient that the Emperor's ship just happened to be the one that survived the end of the war.

The whole "we've been hiding on Earth for centuries" thing really makes no sense, and has no emotional resonance for me at all. We probably needed to see some of the humans they speak of being converted.

That said, a Dalek cult is a fun idea.

The sound mix is terrible, and I can barely make out the dialogue.

My library-issued DVDs are scratched, so I missed the scene where the Doctor tricks Rose into going home. From what I remember, it's pretty good.

The scene in the restaurant is great - I love Rose and Jackie's debate over whether the battle is happening 200,000 years in the future, or right now. And good on Mickey for helping Rose, despite the things she's saying about there being nothing for her in the present being incredibly hurtful. The scene where Rose tells Jackie she met Pete is also dynamite.

It's a lot of fun watching the civilians getting picked off. Waht can I say - I like these sorts of stories. RTD's bloodlust is in fine form here, and he gives each of them just enough characterization for you to give a damn, if only a little.

I wonder if there's an alternate universe - maybe the one in which Eccleston had stayed on - where Rose doesn't survive staring into the heart of the TARDIS, and regresses to an infant or something.

Billie Piper is decent as the Bad Wolf entity, but it's interesting to see the contrast between this and her second time 'round in "The Day of the Doctor".

Hey, who's this new guy? He'll never last.

This episode belongs to Christopher Eccleston, and he makes the most of it, running the full spectrum of the Ninth Doctor's emotions. He turns on a dime from despondent, to aloof, to furious, and everything in between.

And that's a wrap on series 1. I think it's a pretty mixed bag overall - they're definitely still figuring things out. But there are flashes of brilliance throughout. It's definitely not my favourite series, but Eccleston will be missed.

What. A. Game.

As I'm starting this comment, the game isn't quite over, technically - The Riders just finished their interception on that 2-point convert attempt with 30 seconds to go.

This has been a defensive battle, and at the end of the day, the Riders have the better defense. I thought Collaros did pretty well under pressure, but he was under pressure damn near all the time. No good.

But the Bombers continue to improve, and the feel more like a complete team than they did a few weeks ago. It gives me some hope for the Banjo Bowl.

Well done to the Riders. We'll see you next week.

The pivot-to-movie happened well before anything was filmed.

But it does seem like the "pivot" was trying to stuff ten hours of story into a two-hour bag.

I obviously think Georgiou is a more interesting character than you do, but other than that, I agree with this list.

I find it interesting that Capaldi seems quite determined to stay away from the role now that he's out of it.

It's absolutely his right...but it's interesting.

I think that was definitely the idea. I'm somewhat skeptical that it worked, but it would be cool if it was a gateway movie for someone.

it was ambiguous, did it really exist? Was it just one crazy guy?

This was never credible, and was never how it was presented in DS9.

Even in "Inquisition", Sloan had two other guys standing next to him, and an entire starship at his disposal. Starfleet Command covered for him at the end - something that was noted by the DS9 senior staff.

In subsequent episodes, Admiral Ross acknowledged their existence, and Bashir worked out what he believed to be the bare minimum number of operatives required to create the morphogenic virus (73).

Later, we saw them working for the United Earth Starfleet in the ENT era.

The only suggestion that it's just "once crazy guy" comes from Koval, who then helps Sloan fake his death and is revealed to be a S31 asset in the very next scene.

So no, that's not really something Discovery changed. People have had to wilfully ignore the DS9 episodes to buy into that theory.

the characters that we built and the rapport that we had with each other was amazing

I have to admit, I thought Alok was a pretty interesting character. Sam Richardson was also very charismatic as Quasi, though he didn't have much to do. And Young Garrett was okay, too.

I wouldn't mind seeing any of those characters pop up again, with a better story.

Yeah, it's a thing with federation - I see it on Mastodon from time to time.

I've raised it with the Lemmy devs, and they suspect it's some kind of caching issue that will be fixed in the next update.

We hope.