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WCDT strips 3751-3755 (28th May to 1st June 2018)

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BenRG:
IIRC, they had some budget and screenwriter strikes during season 2. However, I feel that their worst conceptual failing was trying to recreate  the Spock/McCoy antagonism between Data and Pulaski (Diana Muldur doing her best with a poorly-conceived legacy-ripoff character).

Mr_Rose:
They failed because they forgot that the reason it worked in the first place was that Spock gave at least as good as he got when McCoy was being an arse to him. Data on the other hand, being the naive-but-curious type, goes straight to “kicked puppy” mode whenever Pulaski was dehumanising, which was every other breath, and it made her come across like a complete monster rather than one half of a mutually respectful/antagonistic relationship. Plus there was no third party who knew ‘this is what they’re like, this is what they’ve always been like’ to moderate or mediate or let the audience know that this is just how these two express their affection for each other.

Basically they took the core element of ‘doctor is sarcastic to emotionless guy’ and threw it at the script without any establishing background or support. This is like trying to put a roof on a building with no walls. Not that they ever even finished putting the roof together properly either.

fantasticalice:

--- Quote from: Penquin47 on 04 Jun 2018, 21:48 ---
--- Quote from: Is it cold in here? on 04 Jun 2018, 18:20 ---It included "Loud as a Whisper".

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It also included "Shades of Grey."  Allowing those two to cancel out... yeah.  About the same as season 1.  (Thankfully, season 3 got SO MUCH BETTER.)

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I always consider this ultimate vindication as a Doctor Who fan. Basically Star Trek didn't Start getting good until Doctor who was Off the air. And except for TOS(which was good as was 66-69 Docr Who) Star Trek has never had a superior or critically acclaimed season when airing against Doctor Who. I had to giggle when Docovery was set in stone for a air date and once the Doctor who trailers started dropping..... boom.... Postponed.

If it aint broke don fix it. Aka Classic Doctor Who fans are predisposed to watch Star Trek when Doctor who isn't on. And a whole oof a lot of us were very happy we had Discovery to enjoy when Doctor Who took a break.

As for AI stuff, I think they did some amazing stuff with the concept of humanity with data in 3-7. Also even though I maintain DS9 was the superior show( Yes I'm one of those) Voyager really double dipped and did some brilliant stuff with AI. and they even did some AiI type storylines with 7of9.


And yes, Pulaski came off as a monster.

Morituri:

--- Quote from: fayelovesbubbles on 29 May 2018, 08:10 ---Right, but she needs to reject them, then, surely? Not easy but what she’s doing now isn’t going to work. She hasn’t really given clear indications that it’s never going to happen, and if that’s the case, she’s gotta.

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Of course she doesn't need to do that.

Even if she were neurotypical, she probably wouldn't do that.  I don't really know how it looks from the many other perspectives out there, but from the observations of a cisgendered heterosexual male, women very rarely "reject" anyone unless anyone is a super persistent jerk who can't take a hint.  To have her ignoring their attraction to her is about as strong a message as Clinton or Elliot should expect or need, at least once they're certain that she knows about their attraction to her.

And if they don't accept that as a clear message that she's not interested in them that way, they're just being deliberately dense.

BenRG:
Poll Results Post
Summer's here! What summer stories would you like to see?

1. Northampton's medieval-themed Summer Faire (Bubbles mentors Sam to win the Tournament) - 30 (18%)
=2. The Reed/Bean family vacation (Marten, Claire (and Pintsize?) along for the ride; lots of coincidental background characters returning) - 27 (16.2%)
=2. Claire's final exams looms; later the graduation is a significant thing - 27 (16.2%)
4. Angus's show is on hiatus; he comes back to try to make peace with Faye - 23 (13.8%)
5. For the first time, Bubbles is able to face the annual reunion of the survivors of her unit - 22 (13.2%)
6. The Fairy Girl ropes the ladies into some weird Summer Solstice festival - 12 (7.2%)
=7. Pintsize, having cleaned up at the poker game, goes on tour to several world casinos with Melon as his sidekick/assistant - 8 (4.8%)
=7 Sven is going on tour to the summer Country festivals; somehow, May gets a Roadie job - 8 (4.8%)
9. Dora decides to add iced teas and iced coffees to CoD's repetoire; there are teething troubles - 6 (3.6%)
10. Other (please specify in a comment) - 4 (2.4%)

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So, the general victors are Bubbles as Sam's sensei-sama, a vacation arc and Claire's graduation. Well, given events in the strips starting Monday 2nd July, it seems that we might at least get the latter of these!

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