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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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There is no describing the Funk. It can only be experienced.
Come on I wanna See Sarah start a shin kicking the staffers responsible.
That’s one thing a staffer show have in their con survival pack, a nice gas mask to protect from after dance face melting funk.
not sure why but I see Sarah as a more talkative version Dina from shortpacked.
DINA FROM SHORTPACKED IS DEEEEEEEAD
correction… Dumbing of age
I don’t know why.
Dina in Dumbing of Age is very low energy, quiet and socially awkward, while Sarah is high energy, loud and outgoing. They’re both Asian girls who wear hats?
If Sarah has any similarity to a WIllis character, it’s Robin.
I was thinking that as well, though even then, there there are only a few similarities.
Kiiiiiiiiiiiiiinnnn!
Oh con funk.this is why at our con all the staff has bottles of fabreze
Evil job. Evvvvvvil.
Either my nose simply didn’t want to know, or I should probably be eternally grateful that I’ve usually been driven off of the dance floor and out of the room very early on by the LOUD.