You are pretty much making the point for him.
The death itself was lame, but people cared for the character, therefore she was brought back and the actress even played her daughter in a few more episodes. Pretty much nobody ever cared for Airiam and it was too early to care for Hemmer.
Maybe for you. But if you read a lot of responses to the episode, plenty of people cared for the character and the manner of death has spurred a lot of discussion. Many feel he deserved a better death; others felt the death was well done in the context of the story, in character, and had a somewhat emotional impact on them.
I was watching TNG first run when they killed Tasha Yar. The responses to that death were either;
" it's a real example of the horrible level of writing of the on the show..."
" the character was so poorly written no wonder she wanted off the show."
" If that was an example of her acting ability, good riddance."
" it's too bad. She was one of the few nice pieces of eye candy on that show."
And as far as the character of Sela, please. The majority of even hardcore TNG fan reaction has been:
"Terrible character, poorly written and poorly acted..."
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Well said. We cared about yar.
You care so much about the character you can't even spell her name correctly. Her name is:
Tasha Yar, not "Tasher yar" ( and yes I thought you might have had a typo there, but you use the exact same spelling later in your post that I'm quoting here.
I think one of the most important moment is in tng measure of a man when data is been interrogated and he mentioned he and yar were a romantic item and everyone was shocked maybe even data himself having had to fully reliase it only when his livelihood was was been threaten.
All I can really respond to the above with is:
Yes, data made that comment in the TNG S2
The Measure of a Man; but that was a probably an attempt to blunt the negativity they got from the only scene that infers a "romantic relationship".
Said scene occurred in TNG S1 The Naked Now, and I don't know if you could call what they had "romantic", based on that scene. The scene involves a effectively drunk Tasha Yar asking data if he's "fully functional" to which he responds, "In every way, of course. I am programmed in multiple techniques, a broad variety of pleasuring..."; "Oh, you jewel! That's exactly what I hoped."
Basically, she sees data as her personal sex toy. And it's actually pretty cringe-worthy when you consider that earlier in the scene she tells Data about her former life on the failed human colony where she grew up avoiding "rape gangs". There's also the fact that data is very naive when it comes to human behavior, and it's almost like she's taking advantage of a child at this point who doesn't really understand what's going on, or her reason for suddenly wanting to engage in this activity with him. It's basically a pseudo sex scene between two characters, neither of which really have the required mental capacity or understanding to actually consent to the act in a meaningful way.
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So yeah that's an example of the type of writing on early season 1 TNG, no wonder Denise Crosby wanted out.
How is hammer remembers here that has real impact or depth
From the reaction I've read here on this forum, and around the internet; the character was well liked, and the majority of viewers were unhappy to see the character go in this manner. Many (myself included) felt the death scene was well written and well acted. Others had different opinions; but overall, for you to claim the above just shows you either haven't been really reading the discussions about it, or really backing up the claim with any actual evidence.
Generic CW tv dialogue like uhura saying team hemura. I can't even believe I am putting snw and tng in the same sentence when it is clear which show had the superior and mature writing with memorable one off characters like tasher yar.
Interesting how the character played by Denise Crosby is so memorable you can't even spell the characters name correctly. (and after doing it twice in your post, no, as I also said earlier, I don't believe it's a typo.)
Again, I can only respond to what you've stated above with:
I assume by the comment: "...uhura saying team hemura..."; you're referring to her line of: "team Hemmer"; and yeah, given the relationship that was developed over the six episodes that featured the characters of Hemmer and Uhura in scenes together; I think it's a lot better written then the scene in TNG S2
Measure of a Man, where data confuses Tasha Yars use of him as her personal dildo, in a situation where neither were able to give consent, as a caring romantic relationship.
I can't believe you're putting TNG season 1 writing on the same level as SNW season 1 writing either.
TNG season 1's writing is considered substandard by majority of even hardcore TNG fans. There's plenty of threads in the TNG Forum of this very BBS that expose that fact.
