Demolishing old cars, maybe.
One thing I especially hate in "In Theory" ...
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That was an accident. He liked driving them...fast! Not his fault someone put a quarry in his path.
I can't see that was Autism that they wanted to portray as it was not an "apple in anyone's eye yet." I think it was more a reverse Spock they wanted. Each series always had something to do with understanding humans and emotion. I feel with Voyager its Tuvok and the Doctor and with DS9 it was Odo. It's just something - a trend, that ST liked to explore. That would be closer to Barclay, and it makes sense since they based him off of some fans they knew. Not sure they liked it too much. True story. And Barclay actually had MI so they did not need an allegory. But whatever humanizes Data more to others. Have no problem. Also, feel the crew was acting very archaic (About "Broccoli') about that especially with Troi on board but she was usually there just to be a Psi. Even back then people were more enlightened. I mean Data was also awkward. But as soon as he got emotions and it was not perfect, I noticed Picard becoming short with him. *Shrugs*
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Damn Apple Maps updates.That was an accident. He liked driving them...fast! Not his fault someone put a quarry in his path.
Just watched this episode for the first time and... it's not that bad?
Jenna falls for Data because she expends a lot of time with him, he makes her laugh, he's supporting... Those seem to me perfectly normal reasons for falling for someone. Data may not have expressed any romantic interest so far, but why shouldn't she try? Someone has to take the initiative, anyway.
That's not "nice guy" behaviour. A "nice guy" is some dude who fakes friendship in the hopes of getting sex out of a woman, but quickly stops being "nice" as soon as the woman rejects him, because it was all fake. That has nothing to do with Data in the episode.
I also don't think that Jenna treated Data the wrong way. She wasn't trying to change him, or force an unnatural behaviour on him. She liked him with all his quirks.
Of course it didn't work in the end. None of these relationships work in the show because the showrunners wouldn't stick a major character into a permanent relationship. Happened a few episodes before, in "The Host", when they just put the trill into a female body at the end to cut short the relationship with Crusher. Or in "Half a Life", with Lwaxanna's boyfriend choosing death at the end. It's just a cop-out.
As for the "50's sitcom" scene, it's obviously done for comedic effect. And it's made clear that Data is making a mistake in trying to mimic that stuff, and that Jenna doesn't like it at all. Anyway, I feel that Data is imitating the roles of a traditional 50's wife, and not a 50's husband, with all that offering of refreshments or dinner, and cleaning the room while Jenna rests on the sofa after a "hard day's work".
Jenna falls for Data because she expends a lot of time with him, he makes her laugh, he's supporting... Those seem to me perfectly normal reasons for falling for someone. Data may not have expressed any romantic interest so far, but why shouldn't she try? Someone has to take the initiative, anyway.
That's not "nice guy" behaviour. A "nice guy" is some dude who fakes friendship in the hopes of getting sex out of a woman, but quickly stops being "nice" as soon as the woman rejects him, because it was all fake. That has nothing to do with Data in the episode.
I also don't think that Jenna treated Data the wrong way. She wasn't trying to change him, or force an unnatural behaviour on him. She liked him with all his quirks.
Of course it didn't work in the end. None of these relationships work in the show because the showrunners wouldn't stick a major character into a permanent relationship. Happened a few episodes before, in "The Host", when they just put the trill into a female body at the end to cut short the relationship with Crusher. Or in "Half a Life", with Lwaxanna's boyfriend choosing death at the end. It's just a cop-out.
As for the "50's sitcom" scene, it's obviously done for comedic effect. And it's made clear that Data is making a mistake in trying to mimic that stuff, and that Jenna doesn't like it at all. Anyway, I feel that Data is imitating the roles of a traditional 50's wife, and not a 50's husband, with all that offering of refreshments or dinner, and cleaning the room while Jenna rests on the sofa after a "hard day's work".
I don't think either Data or Jenna were in the wrong. I think the advice and changing subroutines by Data is a massive misunderstanding of his character at that point and doesn't serve either character well.
If she had gotten re-married/ started a long term relationship, that wouldn't have been a problem. Quark's mom and the Nagus got together, and they probably appeared about as often as she did.
But why? Data tried to be a father in "The Offspring". It's been a constant of his character that he struggles to be more human, or to experience things as humans do. So why is this different? He had a memento of Tasha, so it's not really like he's completely unemotional. The characters say that, himself included, but reading between the lines it's obviously not true, not at a deep level anyway.
Yeah, but it was a big part of Lwaxanna's character to flirt with Picard for comedic effect, or use her in these manhunting plots. The writers probably didn't want to lose the opportunity to keep doing that, just in case.
That's why I said the writing was a disservice
An American show made for American audiences, using a cultural touchstone that people would understand.
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