Belated realization re "Charlie X"

[Basil]

Hey, that's not bad!

 

[number6]

I try.

 

[Aike]

What's also interesting is how Charlie X's personality fits so much of the criticism I read about Gen-Y: narcissistic, lack of impulse control, sense of entitlement, difficulty coping with authority and failure, etc. The underlying argument is spoil the child and you get a maladjusted adult . . . which is Charlie X.

Sorry that is the baby boom generation.

 

[Basil]

What's also interesting is how Charlie X's personality fits so much of the criticism I read about Gen-Y: narcissistic, lack of impulse control, sense of entitlement, difficulty coping with authority and failure, etc. The underlying argument is spoil the child and you get a maladjusted adult . . . which is Charlie X.

Sorry that is the baby boom generation.

Not according to this guy, among others: http://www.amazon.com/Dumbest-Gener...=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1246249690&sr=1-1

But, hey, I'm Gen-X. Both of the other generations are equally worthless.

 

[Brutal Strudel]

I'm Gen X and a teacher. I hazard that this Peter Pan nonsense started with the Boomers and has gotten progressively worse with each passing generation. X was worse than the Boomers, Y is worse than X, etc., etc. America is in its decadent slide. What are ya gonna do? Of course, the previous generations thought nothing of casual and reflexive racism, sexism and homophobia so they were rather shit, too, weren't they? Humanity is a blight. Have a nice day.

 

[erastus25]

Thematically both are very similar to Hide and Q. Riker gets god-like abilities, it goes to his head, bad things happen, etc. A classic sci-fi premise.

 

[Admiral Buzzkill]

It's a re-working of "Where No Man Has Gone Before!"

No.

It's a reworking of "It's A Good Life," with adolescent angst substituted for the rampant id of a preschooler.

"The Day Charlie Became God" was one of Roddenberry's earliest premises for a Star Trek episode and is in fact contained in the extant version of his series proposal. Whether or not Roddenberry would have read Bixby's award-winning short story, it's vanishingly unlikely that he had not seen the 1961 Twilight Zone adaptation.

In putting Trek together Roddenberry borrowed freely from the science fiction canon that he knew of - not unusual amongst the pulp writers themselves, BTW - and this is an obvious example of it.

 

[Green Shirt]

Thematically both are very similar to Hide and Q. Riker gets god-like abilities, it goes to his head, bad things happen, etc. A classic sci-fi premise.

Things weren't all bad, Wesley did get skewered after all.

 

[Aike]

Isn´t Charlie really Roddenberry as a teen? The two biographies about him describe him as an outsider who is bright, shy, narcissistic and hates conventional sexual morals.

Kirk=The ideal self of Roddenberry
Charlie=His id
The aliens in the episode=NBC or maybe Roddenberry´s superego

 

[Aike]

What's also interesting is how Charlie X's personality fits so much of the criticism I read about Gen-Y: narcissistic, lack of impulse control, sense of entitlement, difficulty coping with authority and failure, etc. The underlying argument is spoil the child and you get a maladjusted adult . . . which is Charlie X.

Sorry that is the baby boom generation.

Not according to this guy, among others: http://www.amazon.com/Dumbest-Gener...=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1246249690&sr=1-1

But, hey, I'm Gen-X. Both of the other generations are equally worthless.

Here´s a good review of the book:

...what is really disturbing about this book and its fans' uncritical praise is the self-adulation and complete lack of humility. Face it, we older Americans (I'm 57) aren't exactly setting cosmic records as intellectual beacons, enlightened leaders, and philosopher kings. This is yet another in the avalanche of egotistical books by Boomer and older Xer authors lavishly praising ourselves and our generation as morally and intellectually superior to the "dumb," "unworthy" young that utterly fail to represent the critical scholarship these authors say they prize.

Author: Mike Males, Ph.D.
Source:http://www.amazon.com/Dumbest-Gener...?ie=UTF8&showViewpoints=0&filterBy=addOneStar

 

[Brutal Strudel]

Kids today.

 

[Hartzilla2007]

What's also interesting is how Charlie X's personality fits so much of the criticism I read about Gen-Y: narcissistic, lack of impulse control, sense of entitlement, difficulty coping with authority and failure, etc. The underlying argument is spoil the child and you get a maladjusted adult . . . which is Charlie X.

Sorry that is the baby boom generation.

Who a good chunck of interstingly enough would have been about Charlie X's age.

 

[seigezunt]

It's hard to feel sorry for Charlie. He did get to slap Yeoman Rand on the ass, after all.

Worth it just for that. Ans Spock jamming.

"WHEN I CAME ABOARD!!!"

yeah, what was up with that? The second reading doesn't even make sense.