From: spork@camelot.bradley.edu (Richard Izzo)
Subject: Re: --<Man of the People>-- *SPOILERS*
Organization: Bradley University
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Date:  7 Oct 92 03:14:39 GMT

In <1992Oct6.123441.10359@uoft02.utoledo.edu> mneylon@jupiter.cse.utoledo.edu (Michael Neylon) writes:

>Spoilers for MotP...
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>"Man of the People" was well written IMHO.  We start off with the plot
>right away, and never really do anything else but watch the plot unfold.
>There were enough hints through the shows as to the situation with
>the ambasssador and (female) empaths.  The plot was given plenty
>of time to build, and a comparable amount to resolution.  Obviously, this
>episode shows that writtens have definitely overcome pitfalls of last season.

	*PUKE*  Hate to be rude, but...this has to be THE worst episode 
since...GAWD, I don't remember when.  This is an example of writing so
bad that it defies logic.  Why would a peacekeeper bring his MOTHER on
the ship?  A sick person, at that.  I figure that would've at least brought
about SOME suspicion.

	For another thing, Troi fell pretty quickly for this "death ritual."
One would figure she would have noticed that he wasn't honest with his angst
over his "mother's" death.

>Acting was quite well done.  Sitris had very good parts, playing well
>out of character (as she was meant to in this episode).  Looking back after
>knowing exactly what was happening, she did a marvelous job of showing
>'negative' emotions (angry, lust, rage, etc).  Steward,, Frankes, and 
>McFadden also played their parts quite well and in character (are we
>about to see the Riker-Trio relation build again now?)  I didnt really
>care for the ambassador, although he did have that 'Im *sorta* evil'
>quality in him.

	All I saw in Sirtis's acting is that she really can't play lead
roles, a suspicion confirmed in previous episodes over the years ("The 
loss" comes to mind)  The acting seemed contrived.  Riker showed, like
most of last season, his hormones are never far from the surface.  McFadden
played her role well, though.  She displayed that intrusive, the-patient-
at-all-costs personality Dr. Crusher always has, and the episode reinforced
rusher's personality well.

>A few other odd points...
>-I dont know if I would wanna be a member of that race...they always 
>die like a dead gerbil...

	Agreed.  They reminded me of insects dying, when I noticed it.

>I would give this episode an 8.5 out of 10 .  It was quite well done,
>but there were just little things that could have been done better....

I give it a 2.  I hope Scotty in believable, although in the preview, he
looks a little thinner than he did in Star Treks 3-6.  Maybe being stuck
in a transporter for 75 years cuts down on the ol' fat...  =-)

>-- 
>Michael Neylon   aka Masem the Great and Almighty Thermodynamics GOD!
>      //         | Senior, Chemical Engineering, Univ. of Toledo
>  \\ // Only the |   Summer Intern, NASA Lewis Research Center
>\  \X/   AMIGA!  |         mneylon@jupiter.cse.utoledo.edu           /


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