Fandom: someone here may be doing it wrong.

[lizbee]

I was reading through the AV Club's TNG reviews, and in one of them, the review says that, even though he doesn't hate Wesley, the character totally doesn't work for him because Wil Wheaton was way too old to play a 10 year old.

SOMEONE IS WRONG ON THE INTERNET! I thought, for as all nerds of the late '80s and early '90s should know, Wesley is 14 as TNG begins and turns 15 at some point in the first season. Or something like that, anyway. I can only read so many pages of Memory Alpha in a day.

So I checked the comments to be sure he had been put right.

What did I find? Many, many, many threads about whether or not you're killed and replaced by a duplicate every time you use the transporter. (Answer: the more important question is, is it an evil duplicate? What if the evil duplicate is beamed somewhere? Is s/he replaced by a good duplicate, or does he or she just keep getting more evil, until finally they materialise with a goatee or an eyepatch?)

Then there was a list of Worst Trek Episodes Ever, and by the time I'd disentangled myself from a very serious discussion of just how drunk you need to be to watch "Threshold" (for the record, I've seen it four times, all sober) I'd completely forgotten why I was reading the comments in the first place.

Other things I have achieved today:

- two loads of laundry
- extensive gardening
- dishes
- preserved a vast mass of parsley
- finished re-reading Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

Things I am going to do next:

- have lunch
- start on Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
- have a nap
- keep watching season 1 of TNG

Things I am going to do in upcoming days:

- borrow weaverandom's copy of Avatar: The Last Airbender and watch hell out of it. I watched the first episode the other day. It opened with a Captain Planet and the Planeteers flashback, but then the dialogue happened, and Katara won at life in an epic sort of way, and I fell in love.

Comments

[yiduiqie]

WHEN WILL WE FIND THE TIME TO WATCH SEAQUEST DSV?!

[neigedens]

Many, many, many threads about whether or not you're killed and replaced by a duplicate every time you use the transporter.

Lol I think I read a creepypasta like this once.

Also! You are possibly going to be getting a lot of this, but A:TLA IS SO AMAZING. Season one is good clean fun and then in seasons two and three it is still fun but also EPIC AS ALL HELL. Happy watching! :D

[purple_smurf]

The only season 1 TNG reviews I read are the ones written by Wil Wheaton. I think this is a good rule to live by.

I really wanna watch A:TLA except I can't find it in boxsets anywhere, and I refuse to pay $25+ per disc (all boxsets of the first season are sold out, and the second season hasn't been released in a boxset yet. Why do you hate us, region 4?!).

[sianmink]

hey, whether or not transporter use is fatal is SRS BZNS.

[sianmink]

This. A:tLA is the best thing ever.

[sabra_n]

Yay! Welcome to the world of Avatar love! (The better Avatar, that is.)

[melengro]

ASDJKFJKSF;SKFSFAF A AVATAR.

Seriously, you think the first episode is good? Wait until (among many, many other amazing characters!) the lady in my icon shows up. And in season three, look out for one of the main villains saying (THIS IS AN EXACT QUOTE) 'Sharp outfit, Chan. Careful, you could puncture the hull of an Empire-class Fire Nation battleship, leaving thousands to drown at sea...because it's so sharp.'

Also, Toph. TOPH. SO MUCH LOVE.

Yeah, it's really the early part of season two when things get epic and amazing.

[lizzieladie]

I may or may not be in series 3 of Avatar after starting to watch it on Wednesday. It may or may not be true that I'd be done with it already if I didn't have to go to work. The whole thing is pretty much made of awesome, and I really don't have enough squee for it.

[amaresu]

I watched Threshold two days ago. It's not the best episode ever, but it's not terrible.

[melengro]

Also, Lucius Malfoy voices the main antagonist for the first season. And Mark Hamill shows up later.

[vjs2259]

Wesley Crusher is the sole reason I got my nephews to watch ST:TNG at all. He's a gateway character for kids, 'specially boys, and I retain fondness for him. I tell people if you don't like him, chill. 'THEY DIDN'T MAKE HIM FOR YOU.'

Katara is all sorts of win, as is Toph. But Iroh remains my all-time favorite. I about choked when he asked Zuko: "It's time for you to look inward and start asking yourself the big question: who are you and what do you want?"

[lizbee]

SOON! WHEN ARE YOU COMING HOME FROM PERTH?

[lizbee]

"It's time for you to look inward and start asking yourself the big question: who are you and what do you want?"

FNJSKLAFHDSLAFDLSFJGDSAFDLSAHJFGKDLDHSAJKLFHDSKJALFHDALHFDSLAHFJKAHJKDFLSAHKJDSLHFKAJHFSA!!!!!!!!!!

I've long had a list of characters who are secretly Time Lords. I didn't think I needed one for characters who are secretly Vorlons!

[myniamh]

Yup. Toph is possibly the best thing in an already amazing show.

[vjs2259]

My husband maintains that Vorlons are Time Lords. He's a twisty one, my R.

[fyrdrakken]

Yes. I just finished A:TLA and they managed in the final confrontation to make the epic battle actually worth the buildup. As well as having lots of good female characters.