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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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MAGfest 2013 memories.
There was an Animazement (2007 I think?) where this happened TWICE.
I remember this….i was so mad cause i had just fell asleep like 2hours before it went off and i just happen to get a room at the main hotel…..everyone was getting dressed and i was like fuck it got my comp bag and headed out in PJs xDD they made us get in lines and i felt like i was in school for fire drills and drug raids/searches again. So mad T^T
Multiple Otakon flashbacks…
Hey look it’s Perry. *Epic Phineas and Ferb reference*
so with out clothes on apparently max is stick thin…
We’ve actually seen it before. Without clothes ALL of the characters look like stick figures.
I believe Trae you also stated that they are just stick figure reps of real people so they aren’t really stick figures but just stick representations of real people.
We have ti to use our own imagination to to interpret them as people.
Well yes. I was talking about how they look in the art. Max and Veronica would look more like this in reality http://www.trhonline.com/uncon-reimagined/veronicaandmax.png
Mysticon a coupe of years ago.
I was at that Mysticon! XD
As an attendee and staff member of MFF staff for 9 years I feel your pain. 4 of the last 9 years I think? Though for the last 2 at least I hadn’t gone to bed…..yet
Leastwise nobody’s playing S&M games on the sprinkler vis the Great Flood at Disclave… (One of this year’s Kazoo Award categories was convention mis-accomodations. I had absolutely no trouble whatsoever finding six songs, each about a different convention for the ballot. I could have likely found three times that number if I’d needed to. 🙂 )
I was in a hotel (not at a con) where this happened. Someone had been holding some sort of candle lit ritual in his room and it got out of hand. Fire doors shut and everything. We didn’t have to evacuate though, so we had that.
Furfright, MFF, etc, etc. It’s a tradition! …a shitty, shitty tradition.