From: picard@IASTATE.EDU (David B Roy)
Subject: Re: Promos for: COST OF LIVING (#220)
Reply-To: picard@IASTATE.EDU (David B Roy)
Organization: Iowa State University
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1992 12:05:56 GMT

In article <1992Apr13.013132.8533@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>, dnadams@isis.cs.du.edu
(Promos, Promos, Promos) writes:
> 
> kanamori@Xenon.Stanford.EDU (Atsushi Kanamori) writes:
> 
>  >dnadams@isis.cs.du.edu (Dean Adams) writes:
>  >>Here is the promo copy for COST OF LIVING, announcer:
>  >> A CLASH BETWEEN GENERATIONS...
>  >>  [ Worf looking annoyed; Lwaxana talking closely with Alexander ]
>  >>Alexander:  I hate him.
> 
>  >Make them stop. Please. Make them stop. 
> 
> Ditto...  The scenes with that kid look pretty awful.  Pathetic even.

The whole episode looks pretty bad, not just the scenes with Alexander.  You
know that they always put the best effects in the promos, right?  Well, then
this episode must have terrible production values as well. :-)
 
>  >Can't they for ONCE write the kid without the "brat" routine?
> 
> It sure doesn't seem that way, unless you want to count the wessmeister 
> in his most recent appearance.  Every other time he was as whiney and
> brattily annoying as ever...

Now, now, Dean.  You're letting your prejudices against kids show again. 
Atsushi was commenting just on Alexander, not the kids in general.  I happen to
know that he liked the kid in Hero Worship.  And Wes wasn't that whiney in The
Game either.  The episode just sucked.
 
>  >> ...AND WORF AND HIS SON ARE TRAPPED IN IT'S PATH OF DESTRUCTION.
> 
> Actually, it looks like this is Lwaxana and the kid who are trapped together.
> I suppose Worf has to "rescue" them both.  I wonder if he will be crying
> out that fatherly "Alexander!!!" some more...<yawn>

Maybe Worf will come to his senses and say "Eh.  Let them die." :-)  (I wish)
 
>  >Don't repeat NEW GROUND's mistake. KILL the kid this time. No smiley.
> 
> Well, you KNOW I agree with that.  He should have died in that first fire.
> That would have made the character MEAN something, and it would have provided
> some worthwhile situation for Worf to develop.  Instead we have a recurring
> irritating and ridiculously bland "brat"...

Couldn't agree more. [Glug!]  (Or is that just when the reviewers agree?  Oh
well, like I need an excuse! :-)
 
>  >>Short promo version:
>  >>  The crew struggles to stop a parasite from devouring it's way 
>  >>  through the Enterprise, on Star Trek: The Next Generation.
> 
>  >So we've got three plots: the obligatory ship-in-danger, a wedding
>  >and what looks like another horrid Alexander story.
> 
> I'd say the wedding has the most potential for being interesting,
> and except for Troi's "astonishment", there was really no sight of
> it whatsoever in the promos...

Only if Lwaxana is written MUCH more intelligently then she has been in the
past.  She's never really been in a "ship in danger" plot, which is supposed to
be serious.  She's usually only good for comic relief (though I did kind of
enjoy Half a Life).
 
>  >I'm going to break precedent and update my .sig BEFORE seeing 
>  >the episode.
> 
> Well... Considering you have highly rated shows I thought were very 
> boring and mundane, and given ones I enjoyed *tremendously* as a ".",
> I can't really take them that seriously...

Yet you agree with him throughout his entire post.
 
>  >This one's hopeless.
> 
> If they can keep Lwaxana away from that brat for any length of time,
> there may at least be a few decent scenes.  Moments with her and Troi
> or Picard are almost always interesting.  The majority of this episode
> doesn't sound too great though...

Agreed [Glug!]

DaveRoy

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