verychennoy:
From the script to “The Wire” on this site, which tinsnip posted:
lemonsweetie:
Bashir: I’m a doctor. You’re my patient. That’s all I need to know.
Garak: Wrong again… You need to know who you’re trying to save.
raktajino-hot:
So back when I was watching season 2 of DS9, before I had a tumblr to spam with my thoughts, I spammed my sister’s email inbox instead (because she is a wonderful sister, she put up with this and did not murder me). Including, at one point, a recap of The Wire in more-honest-dialog form.
I recently found that email.
Here it is.
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"It’s drama, drama. It’s not about special effects, or scientific quirky ideas that may or may not ever come to realization in our world. It’s about the human heart in conflict with itself. So, yes, sometimes we dare to be talky, but good talk, I think, makes great TV."
"When I was writing the story, the movie Schindler’s List had just come out, and Ira was saying, ‘Maybe he was Schindler, maybe was the guy who let the prisoners go.’ And then it was, ‘Maybe he wasn’t; maybe he was the Butcher of Budapest.’ So we just kept telling all these lies, and I think the truth lies somewhere in there. Maybe he did let people go. Maybe he did shoot the ship down. Who knows? He wasn’t a gul; he wasn’t in the military. He was in the Obsidian Order, and his first name is Elim. Those things, I would say, are the truth."
A Comparison of “The Wire” and “Amok Time” In the Form of a Children’s Story
feltelures:
Once upon a time, there was a Human…
…and an alien.
The alien was something of an outcast among his people, and because of that, he was lonely—even if he wouldn’t admit it.
Then, he met the Human, who didn’t care that he was an outcast. Soon, they became friends.
They became very good friends.
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