Here’s Something That Doesn’t Work
Believing that people are generally good and will do the right thing in the end, eventually, of given enough time, on their own. (Also: trying to fix lazy/sloppy writing in TNG while watching it. Herb and I keep pointing out problems with logic, but nothing changes. After our comments, the silent one turns to the complainer and says “there, there, frustrated geek, it’s only tv”. Seriously, dude! Two people are likely to vanish, so you put them alone together on a mission? One of the two goes missing (d’uh) and the other goes off into the wilderness without warning anyone? Gees, who are these people and what crappy starfleet academy did they go to (not the writers, I don’t want to know what school they went to - but the characters, dude! They’re supposed to have had all this rad training!)? Mind you, it’s not as bad as Scully and Mulder consistently entering dangerous locales alone with no one knowing where they are, and certainly not as bad as being an FBI agent in high heels. But almost as bad. In any case this wasn’t supposed to be about my geeky frustrations. Or maybe it was.)
November 17th, 2006 at 11:46 am
We have this exact same conversation, every other day [and I’m geeky enough to know which episode you’re talking about]. TNG is an endless source of amusement. And though I watch a dose of ‘Trek’ almost every day, I still don’t consider myself a fan. Is it fanhood if you have an allergy/fascination with cheese and you watch some shows just to make your own skin crawl?