joN. on :
things worth mentioning:
1. something about wondering whether wesley would want some kind of memory-stuff from his father that he barely knew? too bad i wasn't on this one since my dad died three months before i was born. as a kid, i had no reason to care anything about my father in the slightest. his life simply wasn't a part of my life. having no father was completely normal for me. as i get older though, i do find myself wanting to learn more about dad -- and it's strictly involuntary. it's like being haunted -- sort of like in hamlet.
2. defending the jon madsen scale. you may have forgotten that the reason for my scale isn't because i hate certain numbers, but because it's in protest of your rating system. i hate how you don't simply rate the episode yourself, but instead guess as to what someone else would rate it (usually someone who isn't a star trek fan). therefore the score will never go higher than 7 because non-star trek fans will automatically view any given episode with the stigma that they're actually watching star trek. the absolute most perfect star trek episode must therefore be knocked down simply because it's a star trek episode and "there are lots of people who think star trek is dorky." so my rating system isn't giving into that, it's protesting it by pointing such a thing out. journalism is ideally supposed to be objective, but media criticism is not. in my opinion the best, funnest media criticism to view is not the objective stuff that just list broad qualities, but the extremely subjective criticism of personal taste. if there's one thing i'm good at, it's watching tv. i totally watch what i want to watch and i've developed over the years what i consider very good taste -- in the sense that I KNOW WHAT I FIND AWESOME. if someone else can't grasp onto what's awesome -- that's their problem. when i want to rate something it's COMPLETELY from my point of view. so i'm talking to someone who doesn't like star trek? in my mind, they SHOULD like star trek. why wouldn't they? it's a good show. in the meantime, i'm not going to presume to understand their complexities. honestly, i think people can guess how good something is based on my character rather than what i think their character is. they can come to their own conclusions -- but telling them how they feel is presumptuous and isn't nearly as fun and enlightening as rating it strictly for myself.
also i only go down to 2 because i feel bad failing something so hard.
3. french accents are dead in the 24th century. futurama has a running joke about the french language. pay very close attention to the first episode. in it, fry accidentally falls into a cryogenics pod on new year's eve in 1999 right as everyone around the world is counting down. for a second it shows everyone gathered in paris who yell in french whatever number of the countdown they're at. fry arrives 1000 years in the future and witnesses the new year's countdown of that year. again it shows paris, but this time the parisian crowd yells their number IN ENGLISH. in a later episode, professor farnsworth attempts to build some kind of alien language to english translator but is annoyed because it doesn't translate back into english, but instead "returns only gibberish." fry speaks into its microphone "hello?" and the translater exclaims, "bonjour!"
4. it's been a while since i've seen "brothers" but I have a password that is incredibly long too. if you've ever accessed the wireless network at my house (called 'jane') then you know how crazy that password is. i'd change it if i could -- i mean, how much security on the wireless network could i possibly need or want?
5. with regard to data's emotion at the end of "brothers," you guys mentioned that maybe he acted that way to benefit dr. soong. i say that perhaps data is SO LOGICAL that he became aware that his existence is actually viewed by a syndicated 20th century audience every week. perhaps he didn't act all dramatic for the good doctor, PERHAPS IT WAS FOR US (*slow clap for data*).
1. something about wondering whether wesley would want some kind of memory-stuff from his father that he barely knew? too bad i wasn't on this one since my dad died three months before i was born. as a kid, i had no reason to care anything about my father in the slightest. his life simply wasn't a part of my life. having no father was completely normal for me. as i get older though, i do find myself wanting to learn more about dad -- and it's strictly involuntary. it's like being haunted -- sort of like in hamlet.
2. defending the jon madsen scale. you may have forgotten that the reason for my scale isn't because i hate certain numbers, but because it's in protest of your rating system. i hate how you don't simply rate the episode yourself, but instead guess as to what someone else would rate it (usually someone who isn't a star trek fan). therefore the score will never go higher than 7 because non-star trek fans will automatically view any given episode with the stigma that they're actually watching star trek. the absolute most perfect star trek episode must therefore be knocked down simply because it's a star trek episode and "there are lots of people who think star trek is dorky." so my rating system isn't giving into that, it's protesting it by pointing such a thing out. journalism is ideally supposed to be objective, but media criticism is not. in my opinion the best, funnest media criticism to view is not the objective stuff that just list broad qualities, but the extremely subjective criticism of personal taste. if there's one thing i'm good at, it's watching tv. i totally watch what i want to watch and i've developed over the years what i consider very good taste -- in the sense that I KNOW WHAT I FIND AWESOME. if someone else can't grasp onto what's awesome -- that's their problem. when i want to rate something it's COMPLETELY from my point of view. so i'm talking to someone who doesn't like star trek? in my mind, they SHOULD like star trek. why wouldn't they? it's a good show. in the meantime, i'm not going to presume to understand their complexities. honestly, i think people can guess how good something is based on my character rather than what i think their character is. they can come to their own conclusions -- but telling them how they feel is presumptuous and isn't nearly as fun and enlightening as rating it strictly for myself.
also i only go down to 2 because i feel bad failing something so hard.
3. french accents are dead in the 24th century. futurama has a running joke about the french language. pay very close attention to the first episode. in it, fry accidentally falls into a cryogenics pod on new year's eve in 1999 right as everyone around the world is counting down. for a second it shows everyone gathered in paris who yell in french whatever number of the countdown they're at. fry arrives 1000 years in the future and witnesses the new year's countdown of that year. again it shows paris, but this time the parisian crowd yells their number IN ENGLISH. in a later episode, professor farnsworth attempts to build some kind of alien language to english translator but is annoyed because it doesn't translate back into english, but instead "returns only gibberish." fry speaks into its microphone "hello?" and the translater exclaims, "bonjour!"
4. it's been a while since i've seen "brothers" but I have a password that is incredibly long too. if you've ever accessed the wireless network at my house (called 'jane') then you know how crazy that password is. i'd change it if i could -- i mean, how much security on the wireless network could i possibly need or want?
5. with regard to data's emotion at the end of "brothers," you guys mentioned that maybe he acted that way to benefit dr. soong. i say that perhaps data is SO LOGICAL that he became aware that his existence is actually viewed by a syndicated 20th century audience every week. perhaps he didn't act all dramatic for the good doctor, PERHAPS IT WAS FOR US (*slow clap for data*).
