Earth Females Are Too Fragile
29 December 2008 | 1:17 PM
People often give me grief because I spent most of the late evenings during my formative college years watching episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation. To those people, I say watch this clip. Then I say, “You’re goddamn right I did”:
How that series failed to win a Nobel prize, I’ll never understand….
Posted by Andy in Awesome (To Me, Anyway)
Is ST:TNG my favorite show, ever? You’re damn right it is. I’ve probably watched 8 or 9 hours of it in the last week. Lifetime average? Way higher than anything else, except for the Simpsons, which might lead ST:TNG in total hours.
Anyhow, yeah… this is just an awkward scene. There isn’t enough room for both of them, nor the camera and mirror. Diana Sirtis is way too close to the wall, and it looks like she’s being crowded by McFadden. The bulkhead is inexplicable. Are they yoga-ing (yoging?) in some corridor on deck 10? Wow.
And the costumes? One can almost hear the costume direction… “Yeah, put ‘em in something absolutely skin-tight, with a pattern that draws attention to the T&A, but you know… make it subtle, so use a pastel color.”
Also, this possibly the nerdiest thing I’ve ever written. Point me to the nearest ST:TNG support group.
I don’t know how you can say any scene in which Gates McFadden and Marina Sirtis pretend to do yoga in leotards is “awkward”.
I like to call this scene “The Prime Cameltoe Directive”.