Current Post On Trae’s Blog:
So I'm just going to come out and say it: My favorite episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation is "Conundrum." It's episode fourteen of season five, and I just deeply love it.
I don't know if it's because I literally just assumed Erich Anderson's Commander McDuff was a random Enterprise officer of the week (which we saw quite often during the show) when I watched it as a kid during the original run, so the twist actually worked on eleven year old me. I don't know if it's because I just like a good "everyone has amnesia" story. I don't even know if it's just because it's a good Ro Laren episode. I don't know if it's just because we learn that Starfleet doesn't give a crap about lasers.
I just like it. It's neat.
And I rewatched it last night, and feel that it holds up -- which is why I found it deeply weird that the folks who wrote the episode actually think it's not that good. My favorite episode of the entire seven season run of the show was a failure according to the folks who wrote it.
And maybe, as a writer and creator, I should remember that.
Like the hardest part of releasing creative works to the public is that often, after a while, I'll start to judge those things far more harshly than when I first made them. Or I'll compare it to the potential I thought an idea had in my head. And if I don't reach that potential, I'll think of it as "bad" -- when it might just be slightly different than that idea. I have one hundred percent published stories that I thought were just sort of okay and later had someone tell me how much it meant to them to read it.
*cough*I Hate November*cough*
So I should make sure I remember Conundrum. That one of my favorite things to rewatch is considered one of those failures by its creators. That the things I make might have value, just not in the way I originally thought they should.
It's just sort of how things work out.
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Have we heard about the restraining order before? I don’t remember hearing about the restraining order before.
Also, if he’s the subject of a restraining order against a staff member, wouldn’t that have, in essence, already banned him from the con? I mean, if I had a restraining order against someone, I’d notify the con I work for, and someone on registration staff should have checked their database to make sure he wasn’t on the attendee list.
The restraining order mention is literally how Chapter 8 closes: http://www.unconventional-comic.com/2017/11/breaking-point-murder/
As for the ban — yes, he should have been, but a lot of smaller cons don’t check names for at-door reg, and as they are a couple of hours from the town they live in, Ruth and Sarah may not have thought to inform the reg staff.
Ok, gotta admit I didn’t see that boomerang zooming in behind Terrence – well played sir. Also, it’s not often that you get to see the person being stalked cynically manipulate the process and regulations to make the stalker’s life go to hell – usually rather the opposite.
So ten points for that too.
STOMP HIS FACE!
This is the best comment,
If I gave out prizes, this would win one.
You could take a page from Stan Lee’s book…
And don’t forget to stomp the family jewels too, we don’t need him being able to reproduce. Even if women would no chance in hell, date him, we still don’t need him being able to spread his jerkface genetics. Because sometimes you never know what kind of women might actually give him the time and day.
Okay, so you had them talk about getting one, but not that they did get one. (Moot now that Lynn has said they have it).
Terrence maybe could be in trouble for going to the convention; but only if he knew Ruth and Sarah were/are on staff at this convention. Ruth being in the room merely means knowing she’s there he has to leave/maintain distance. If he neither knew she was at the convention, nor did not see her until Lynn pointed it out, he only has to leave now.
The convention I work with, we do have a permanent ban list, and if any staff member (sometimes attendees, but that ones rare) has someone they need banned or kept away, we expect them to tell us or it’s not our fault if someone they don’t want there shows up. I myself have had to deal with an attendee who she and her ex had mutual restraining orders on each other: whomever got to the convention first, got to stay.
Lynn is counting on the cops not taking his word for it that he didn’t know they were there.
Terrence also doesn’t think the cops will believe him, as he’s not an idiot (just an asshole)
Bluff. This is how you bluff.
I’d worry about cops who’d believe a guy in a Nazi uniform.
when word gets out evey con in the state will pay Ruth and Sara to be on staff to keep F***Boi away from them
Totally forgot about the restraining order!
I suppose you’d call that an “out of court settlement”…
Man I knew that the restraining order was going to come up, I wanted to post about it when you showed his face the first time to ask if it actually had happened.
I am kind of glad I didn’t, because that would have ruined the twist but man I feel smart thinking of that.
I also wanted to note that I thought it was unrealistic no one recognized Terrance… so there is that….
I’m just glad the November story isn’t going to be the trial of Lynn, I was prepping for that depression.
My thought is that no one was looking at his face.
And there is Trae standing there behind Ruth, dumbfounded as to what the hell just happened. That Homestuck cosplayer better have sealed her paint btw. That older man with the goatee also looks dumbfounded. And Jasper of course witnessed nothing or maybe he decided to wash his hands clean because he doesn’t want to testify in court and risk getting banned from any con that Lynn is staffing.
Well played sir, well played. I did not see that coming… to be fair, neither did Terrance.
Garner’s being pretty quiet throughout this conversation. Is he impressed by her at all that she managed to punch him in the face? Or is he just happy to get the guy out of here, I wonder.
Either way, good on Lynn taking her opportunity to punch this guy in the face when she saw she had it.
That or realizing just how goddamn scary she can really be.
TBF these were pretty extenuating circumstances that let her get away with socking someone in the face.
I just noticed something, Jasper has always had his back facing, he’s never show us his frontside.