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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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Whenever Awesome Roy talks, I imagine Atop the Fourth Wall’s 90’s Kid voice.
I had to look up clips to see what you were talking about…
…but yeah, that’s not far off from the voice in my head.
Duuuuuuuude!! It’s the poly bagged variant of “Empire Builder” with the trading card and embossed holo-foil logo!
Really? I imagine Chester A. Bum from Bum Reviews.
Games? Y’got games? Oh, c’mon, help a guy out! GAMES?!
or
Ohmygod this is the
greatestawesomest game EVER!Nope I never forgot Awesome Roy
AwesomeRoy is my favorite character.
So, I started yesterday, around the same hour as now, reading the first strip of this. Besides of being awesome and funny as heck and all(with the necessary spices of sadness and seriousness), I have to know… How does max’s hair works? Does he have the forbidden secret of mickey mouse’s ears perspective? And finally, what would happen with it if two spectators were to look at him in different angles?
1. Max’s hair always points to the right (unless viewed from directly behind)
2. As the artwork in UnCONventional is an abstract representation of their reality, if you were to directly observe Max, he would appear in a much more human form, with hair that obeyed a much more reasonable set of physical rules 😛