Just want to focus in on one element of your post here.

Parent. Singular. Supposedly. Anakin’s daddy was the Force itself, if you believe his mother.

Not at all! In the former case they are a person with an innate talent, but otherwise is anybody or nobody. In the latter case they are fundamentally special and unique and obviously important and significant. That is a huge narrative weight that makes a big difference. It was a big factor in Qui-Gon taking Anakin to…

They cooked the heck out of it. By definition, not sashimi either.

Those limits have been expanded again and again in the modern era. Don’t think for a moment that aggressive attempts won’t be made to expand them further when particularly valuable IP becomes vulnerable again.

I admit to not being strongly familiar with Enoch, but it is my general understanding that he was a man elevated to a vantage point in heaven that was able to observe and witness the workings therein. The parallel may not be direct, but an inspiration may still be taken in whole or in part.

No. Enoch, from the Book of Enoch. It is a book of the Bible considered apocryphal by most traditions, with some exceptions.

Lest we forget his experiences with Missy, especially in the final episodes of the season, clearly opening up the possibility to him.

Likely the difficulty in interpreting your comment came down to a lack of an apostrophe in indicating a possessive. If you had written “first Doctor’s”, then it would have been clear you meant the first Doctor specifically and singular. Without that, it does ambiguously seem to refer to any number of “first Doctors”,…

I think it’s more likely that both characters were inspired from the same source material.

That would be because they’re basically all made in Canada with Canadian actors. As I understand it, Canada has laws about requiring a certain amount of Canadian-made programming on their TV, and as such there are a lot of joint Canadian/US TV projects.

You’re thinking of the PlayChoice-10, which had the actual home-version NES games in it, and you fed it quarters for play time. I remember playing Metroid on it. Not a great game to play in 5 minute bursts....

I am constantly subjected to the Hallmark Channel due to others in my household addicted to it, and I think it is much more accurate to say that they assume black people and Asians simply do not exist.

I would argue that “trickle down” is the easy self-delusion that gives them permission not to even feel guilty about not caring. Most humans, even the nasty ones, will feel a twinge of guilt now and then about harming others... unless they can give themselves an out. “It will trickle down.” “It’s for their own good.”…

Not just sorry, but emotionally wrecked by it. Said a lot of things about her.

Despite her affinity otherwise for constrictive... things.

Well I mean unless the Internet has a lending library for that sort of thing....

Can’t say I have. I’ve quite sadly gotten away from reading books very often. Bit of a combo of lack of attention span and lack of availability (haven’t had a library of any note at my disposal in many years). It does sound like an interesting collection though. I can see parallels in your description.

I felt like it worked as a finale because it brought the Ed and Kelly arc to a climax, and even a cliffhanger of sorts. Nothing of great cosmic import, but the series opens with the last moment of their marriage, so there’s a symmetry.

Agreed. I think more often than not Picard chose to walk away from a situation rather than try to impose his morals on it, however much he wanted to. Picard’s big speeches on principles tended to be directed more at his own people.