Maybe weekly, or twice-weekly? Pick, I dunno, Sundays and Wednesdays or something? I never did understand the compulsion to say something every single day.
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Gee, when did playing a flawed, complicated, and compelling character become a bad thing?
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It's bad when the "flaws" are neither deliberate nor in keeping with the established character. And not everyone finds her "compelling."
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T'pol is not a traditional Vulcan, they've never played her as a traditional Vulcan, she's...a little nutty. And I really don't see anything wrong with that. Human beings aren't all the same, why should that be true for vulcans.
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I don't have a problem with T'Pol being a different kind of Vulcan -- the kind who would go to a jazz club, the kind who would experiment with a mind meld or take a post on a Terran ship because she was so curious. I DO have a problem with the NP arc, because there was no sensible, plot-driven in-character reason for it. It was all about skin. I DO have a problem with an intelligent, logical scientist allowing herself to become addicted to a drug which 'made me feeeel good.' Exposing herself to trellium was not like picking up drinking or smoking. She had to work at finding a way to expose herself to it without killing herself. And even at that, the arc could have been written better, and worked in over the year, but it was jammed into "Damage" like a geranium in a flowerpot and then "solved" in a TV hour. That's my problem: bad storytellng. I believe this is Jolene's complaint also.
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Most of this is just because she's Vulcan, and there is a misconception that you can define that into one particular set of rules, and if you deviate from those rules in any way, you cease to be Vulcan.
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I agree, but remember, this "misconception" is how Roddenberry set the universe up! So forgive us if we expect the franchise to keep playing by the rules originally established.
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And yes admittidly, there is some T&A for no purpose other than T&A, but that's everywhere on TV, it's like commericals, and it should not distract you from the overall story.
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that's what Jolene is saying. She knows she's T&A, but she doesn't want it to replace the story. In S3, not only did it distract me from the story, it was presented AS the story, and I resented it.