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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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Well, that was utterly completely unexpected…
They’ve been together for four years and five months, living together for over three years, and same sex marriage is finally legal in their state.
A little out of left field in the narrative? A little – but that was on purpose, and only just.
But everyone should have been expecting this pretty soon. 😛
more the Way it was done then the fact that it was done to be honest i was expecting this since her dads funeral
Well, that was the “little” bit.
And yeah, everyone should have been expecting this since Megan’s Dad’s funeral. I was kind of telegraphing. 😛
Awwwwwww…
The whole “thinking about the future, gah!” immediately made me think it was going to lead to a marriage conversation. Not having seen these two discuss that at all made me not expect a proposal, because it’s becoming more and more common to cohabitate indefinitely without marriage, and I didn’t know their feelings on this. When thinking about any of my friends that have been together that long, I always think something like “It’s about time!” which is just ironic considering that Brian and I have been together longer than most of them have even known each other and feel no particular call to get married.
Eh, I don’t think its ironic — you just happen to be wired differently than a lot of other people. Nothing wrong with it.
That’s adorable
Not sure if that’s a horrible proposal, or a great one. Asuming of course it is a proposal… might be a vintage pokemon card in there, or something.
They don’t seem like the type to have a huge grand proposal. This actually fits them. No we wait for the reaction…
What about “huhwhatthe-panic-iloveyou-panic-setthedate?-panic-helpmeweddingday-ikillyousomeday-(butiloveyou)-eeekweddingandparentsandfriendsfromstaf-PANIC?