tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8349653650482188023.post984817584776212420..comments2024-02-18T22:30:19.655-10:00Comments on Vaka Rangi: “All in the game, yo. All in the game”: The WireAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03828341842948036592noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8349653650482188023.post-74854666242976215782016-05-12T08:03:11.202-10:002016-05-12T08:03:11.202-10:00All creative works of fiction are autobiographical...All creative works of fiction are autobiographical. Especially lies.Keith Joneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09191397165163257948noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8349653650482188023.post-19018664892046447032016-05-12T08:02:24.403-10:002016-05-12T08:02:24.403-10:00And ties with O'Brien as my utter favorite cha...And ties with O'Brien as my utter favorite character.<br /><br />Especially the lies.Keith Joneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09191397165163257948noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8349653650482188023.post-69744487057735940272016-05-12T08:01:16.154-10:002016-05-12T08:01:16.154-10:00I think I've modelled myself after Garak. Plai...I think I've modelled myself after Garak. Plain, simple Me. For better or worse I navigate 'heightened' reality with mystique and aplomb, but when the past comes back, or things get real, it's a full neural systems collapse. Garak is a post-mortem idealist.Keith Joneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09191397165163257948noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8349653650482188023.post-18474030248992410232016-05-05T05:11:47.043-10:002016-05-05T05:11:47.043-10:00I was at a Star Trek convention in 2012, and Andre...I was at a Star Trek convention in 2012, and Andrew Robinson was there. I was genuinely too intimidated to go up and talk to him, I loved Garak so much growing up.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03552895044884005458noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8349653650482188023.post-44843785388257677132016-05-04T15:10:11.784-10:002016-05-04T15:10:11.784-10:00There is no hidden platonic “real” you because a p...<em> There is no hidden platonic “real” you because a part of you behaves a certain way in social situations, and it's by those facets you display in interactions through which you will be defined in the eyes of society. I never got far enough in philosophy to say with confidence if there's a name for that theory, apart from perhaps “anti-solipsism”. </em><br /><br />Drop the "in the eyes of society" and you're pretty close to discovering existentialism.Rosshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09703211229982182936noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8349653650482188023.post-10999649461942773012016-05-04T14:52:59.603-10:002016-05-04T14:52:59.603-10:00I was always a little disappointed that it didn...I was always a little disappointed that it didn't turn out that Garak really was just a simple tailor and everythign else was just him screwing with Bashir.Rosshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09703211229982182936noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8349653650482188023.post-21097587284077344272016-05-04T07:08:07.300-10:002016-05-04T07:08:07.300-10:00My preferred origin for Garak is that he's a c...My preferred origin for Garak is that he's a con artist who made the biggest and most elementary mistake a con artist could make: he thought the government could be trusted like a fellow con artist. Really puts him in the Moore tradition, wouldn't you say?<br /><br />Also this is one of the most shippiest things ever. Sadly, it still doesn't hold a candle to Kei doing the sign for I Love You to Yuri in How to Kill a Computer or Mary Jane Watson flat out stating that she and Peter love Harry in Best of Enemies.Sean Dillonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01244017975428530057noreply@blogger.com