Some people think the Traveller had a creepy sub text, do you think that is true?
http://sfdebris.com/videos/startrek/t179.asp
http://sfdebris.com/videos/startrek/t179.asp
Was the Traveller Creepy?
- Thread starter The Overlord
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He did have a sort of creepy vibe in how he was portrayed and his leering at/fixation with Wesley only amplified that.
Yes. Very.
Yes, his fascination with Wesley came off a bit creepy.
You'd think someone would catch the creepy factor when they were viewing the dailies.
By the time dailies arrive it's probably too late. Television production doesn't always have the time and money to have the line rewritten, haul back all the actors, and reshoot the scene. If they cut the line out completely, then the show comes up short on running time and they have to make up for it some other way. These sort of things should have been caught by the director during shooting when there might have been time to fix it. Any line changes always had to be approved by the producers, improvised lines were rarely allowed.
With the Adult Wesley business, the scene probably wouldn't have raised any eyebrows at all if Troi or Yar had delivered the "Not bad" line.
I knew this thread was a result of SFDebris' latest review. I never found him creepy, but I won't be able to hear the dialogue the same way again, thanks to SFDebris. 
I'm more weirded out by Roddenberry's narcissism, naming Wesley after himself and making him a galactic Mozart.
I'm more weirded out by Roddenberry's narcissism, naming Wesley after himself and making him a galactic Mozart.
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Sometimes not explaining things is actually better. As sometimes if answers are given all they do is dissapoint.
This is what he was really after.
I think these judgments say more about how people today read a sexual context into everything.
The Traveler was enlightened.
Bert and Ernie are not sexual.
Hm, come to think of it, Full House was really sick. And don't get me started on Leave it to Beaver!
The cynic who can't believe the truth when he hears it has become the fool he so abhors.
The Traveler was enlightened.
Bert and Ernie are not sexual.
Hm, come to think of it, Full House was really sick. And don't get me started on Leave it to Beaver!
The cynic who can't believe the truth when he hears it has become the fool he so abhors.
I always just figured that the Traveler just over indulged in smoking pot.
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