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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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I imagine Sarah has a playlist of Taylor Swift and Tragic Kingdom era Gwen Stefani on her phone right now.
Taylor Swift? Probably.
Gwen Stefani? Probably not.
Sarah was born in 1995. She probably only knows who Gwen Stefani is from The Voice.
(If she does, she considers No Doubt “Dad music” or something)
This is wrong in ways that make my eye twitch.
This…makes me feel so old. ;_;
Today’s teens and college students feel the way about 90’s ska as we did about 70’s disco.
Our joy is that in the 2030’s, the next generation will feel that way about Drake and Fetty Wap.
This doesn’t really seem to be Ruth’s fault. If in the past Steve had appt access and Sarah revoked it, she should have told her roommates in order to avoid exactly this situation. Not doing that means letting Steve in the appt is a perfectly reasonable decision for Ruth to make. (And no, a Facebook status change does not count as telling people, it’s far too easy to miss to be considered reliable)