I find it very hard to have bad feelings about “Genesis” or “Masks” just because I saw them when I was so young and both those episodes go hard if you’re seven. I had so much fun watching them with my dad I’ve actually petitioned to change my username to a “Genesis” reference. Whatever judgments I might have on those episodes as an adult are completely overridden by being taken back to that age when I see them.
I had no clue “Conundrum” was poorly-regarded at all—I always thought of it as a solid episode.
I don’t think this is odd. iirc he talked about being really into Dixon Hill when he was younger (like pre-Academy days) so it’s something from his youth he’s never let go of, and for another a lot of people have mixed highbrow-lowbrow tastes. When I had a houseguest I was rereading Moby Dick and reading J. Bradford De Long’s big economic history tome Slouching Towards Utopia, but as soon as he left I was relieved that I could relax in the evening and turn on something like Fujiko Mine’s Lie without risking judgment (and I’d much rather play Lupin III in a holoprogram than Ishmael or Ahab).
I had no clue “Conundrum” was poorly-regarded at all—I always thought of it as a solid episode.
I don’t think this is odd. iirc he talked about being really into Dixon Hill when he was younger (like pre-Academy days) so it’s something from his youth he’s never let go of, and for another a lot of people have mixed highbrow-lowbrow tastes. When I had a houseguest I was rereading Moby Dick and reading J. Bradford De Long’s big economic history tome Slouching Towards Utopia, but as soon as he left I was relieved that I could relax in the evening and turn on something like Fujiko Mine’s Lie without risking judgment (and I’d much rather play Lupin III in a holoprogram than Ishmael or Ahab).
