One of the most beautiful and painful parts about being a human being is the potentially psyche-shattering range of emotions available for you to experience at any given time. Most of us will go through nearly all of them at some point in our lives. Fortunately, the human brain has developed certain safeguards that prevent us from experiencing too many of them in too short a time-frame. If we could experience joy, terror, despondency, apathy, exuberance, and outright anger all within, say, three hours and nineteen minutes, who knows what the consequences could be for our fragile minds?
Tonight, the Mariners disregarded our collective mental well-being and forced us to experience pretty much every possible emotion in three hours and nineteen minutes.