TNG s2e9 “The Measue of a Man”

  • MudMan@fedia.io
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    4 days ago

    Man, it always gets me.

    Not even the Picard speech, although it’s a good Picard speech.

    It’s the slavery bit with Guinan. Goldberg is gut-wrenchingly good in that scene. She defines the character, the episode, the subject and the entire show with the energy of a “very special episode” but the gravitas and emotional punch of genuinely all-timer good sci-fi.

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      3 days ago

      It’s too bad Whoopi Goldberg has ruined so much goodwill by being generally unpleasant because she really is a terrific actor.

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        3 days ago

        ¯_(ツ)_/¯

        I’m not particularly keen on projecting artists onto the finished product, particularly compared with the average outrage culture of US terminally online people. Even if I was, she isn’t a presence in my local media, so “generally unpleasant” wouldn’t be a factor anyway.