The Revival – Remeet
Because of the storyline’s late start, there will also be an extra comic Monday Wednesday.
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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I’m waiting for the one person that always pipes up with, “Don’t kink shame!”
*points* you just did
Ruth didn’t say it wasn’t an option for *someone*, just that that is the ONLY way it would be an option. ?
Death by snu/snu!
“If they get their hands on us, they’ll rape us to death, eat our flesh, and wear our skins for blankets. If we’re lucky, they’ll do it in that order…”
With the money they save on the super-cheap Expo option they could buy a fuckton of rat poison and paint to be used in advance.
What, legit possibility that Neil may show up for our con?! OF COURSE it is gonna be there!
I was under the impression that this webcomic is roughly contemporary; it’s been a while since Gaiman has lived in Menomonie — and there was enough noise about his split that I’d expect this crew to know that.
Um, last I checked he still lives there. He splits time there and at his wife Amanda Palmer’s place out east, so he’s not there as often as he used to be, but he still calls it home.
(I literally live within twenty minutes of Menomonie)