I watch too much Buffy....
Dec. 30th, 2003 10:32 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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Why isn't there another new slayer? I mean, the first time Buffy died, we got Kendra. And when Kendra died, we got Faith. But then Buffy died again. Didn't that activate another new slayer? We know her resurrection helped destabilize the slayer line, so why did we still have only two slayers running around, instead of three?
(edit)After typing that, I realized I have problems with some other shows, so let's turn this into a general inconsistencies rant, okay?
1. I don't, unlike some people, mind Captain Picard speaking with a British accent... it's certainly better than trying to make Patrick Stewart speak with a French accent! Heck, I don't even mind the fact that his French, when required to speak it, isn't all that good. But why on earth does he seemingly know no French authors or playwrights? Why is it always Shakespeare and Dickens? Why not Moliere and Voltaire? Or La Fontaine? Or, well, anyone? It's a further outgrowth of my complaint that Terran Culture is just American culture with no money and cool spaceships. *sighs deeply*
2. Why, oh why, has Daniel Jackson stopped translating everything? Universal translators are, frankly, impossible, but in shows and books where they exist, I accept that... I'll allow some suspension of disbelief. But when you have a character whose job it is to translate, why on earth does everyone start speaking English? It's annoying. Just make up some sort of translating device, maybe one which works semi-realisticly by making you learn languages faster instead of really translating, and I'll be happy.
3. What happened to Judy from Family matters? They used to have two daughters, and then, all of a sudden, they just had one. No reason either, she just disappeared from all but the credits. Similarly, what happened to the older son in Happy Days? Huh? Huh?
4. Back to Star Trek. One word. Klingons. And don't give me that "we don't talk about it" crap, I want a real reason, one that fits into the story. Yes, I know they didn't have the budget for the makeup in TOS, I still want a real storyline reason!
(edit)After typing that, I realized I have problems with some other shows, so let's turn this into a general inconsistencies rant, okay?
1. I don't, unlike some people, mind Captain Picard speaking with a British accent... it's certainly better than trying to make Patrick Stewart speak with a French accent! Heck, I don't even mind the fact that his French, when required to speak it, isn't all that good. But why on earth does he seemingly know no French authors or playwrights? Why is it always Shakespeare and Dickens? Why not Moliere and Voltaire? Or La Fontaine? Or, well, anyone? It's a further outgrowth of my complaint that Terran Culture is just American culture with no money and cool spaceships. *sighs deeply*
2. Why, oh why, has Daniel Jackson stopped translating everything? Universal translators are, frankly, impossible, but in shows and books where they exist, I accept that... I'll allow some suspension of disbelief. But when you have a character whose job it is to translate, why on earth does everyone start speaking English? It's annoying. Just make up some sort of translating device, maybe one which works semi-realisticly by making you learn languages faster instead of really translating, and I'll be happy.
3. What happened to Judy from Family matters? They used to have two daughters, and then, all of a sudden, they just had one. No reason either, she just disappeared from all but the credits. Similarly, what happened to the older son in Happy Days? Huh? Huh?
4. Back to Star Trek. One word. Klingons. And don't give me that "we don't talk about it" crap, I want a real reason, one that fits into the story. Yes, I know they didn't have the budget for the makeup in TOS, I still want a real storyline reason!
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Date: 2003-12-30 09:07 pm (UTC)Oh, I know the real-life why, I just want the storyline why. I don't mind a little suspension of disbelief, I just want to know what it is I'm not disbelieving.
Also, there are very rarely any planets which seem to have any level of linguistic diversity. Clearly, all advanced, spacefaring cultures are completely homogenous in that respect.
Linguistic, cultural, racial... Incidentally, why on Vulcan is Tuvok black? Aren't all Vulcans pasty pale? Continuing that, why are all Klingons fierce and honorable, and all Vulcans unemotional and all Ferengi greedy pigs and nothing else, but humans get to be all those things and more?
But then... why does the point of origin glyph on Earth's stargate represent a pyramid? The Goa'uld didn't build the 'gates; they just used them... :)
So that people with nothing to say would have something to talk about. Um. Maybe the Goa'uld are the world's biggest grafitti artists?
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Date: 2003-12-30 10:01 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-12-30 10:10 pm (UTC)And what was with that episode where Q decided to condemn the Enterprise for humanity's crimes? Why didn't Worf, or even Troi just sit there like, "yup, okay, I'm getting off now, nice knowing you!"? They're not human!
And it's nice to know that in our new, enlightened universe, the federation is made up of white people. Mostly white men, judging by the starships... I mean, seriously, except for Worf, are any of the alien-actors black, or asian, or hispanic, or anything but white under all that makeup, or the lack thereof?
Still, at least I know I'm safe!
OOH! More questions! So, Janeway absconds with a starship, gets lost for god knows how long, and gets home to a cushy admiral job... but Picard's still a lowly captain? Huh?
Of course, maybe if he would initiate the auto-destruct a little less often.... AND WHY DID IT TAKE THEM SO LONG TO PUT A SPECIAL SHIELD AROUND THE WARP CORE?