[ SECRET POST #5847 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5847 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I don't think it's just dudebro fans wanting a logical badass robot

I think the creators did want to write him as logical and emotionless, and intended to write him that way. And they constantly fall back on Data being incapable of comprehending emotions and misunderstanding the kinds of emotional interactions that human beings do have (which I personally think they do a bad job at writing). While at the same time they do also end up writing him as emotional constantly. So I would say that it is, at least, inconsistent.

[(Anonymous)]

Is there a reason you think the writing is bad and inconsistent rather than Data's perception of himself being intentionally written as inaccurate?

[(Anonymous)]

(I'm not going to go and look up references and episodes and scenes and whatnot, I'm just going off my recollection for the most part)

1) I feel like Data being emotionless is often the way that it's depicted and written
2) I feel like other characters sometimes go along with that characterization, implying that it's not simply something that's a diegetic error in Data's self-understanding
3) IIRC there are scenes and plot points at various times where it seems that Data is given emotions and this is treated as a significant break from his normal existence - if I recall correctly the two most notable examples are the bit where he gets to laugh as part of his reward from Q, and the whole emotion chip thing
4) I am skeptical that the writing staff of TNG was good enough to consistently write Data in that way and with that level of intentionality, especially not over the show as a whole, IE including the early seasons

[(Anonymous)]

So you think it's more likely they were just... Horribly inconsistent and not that he was intentionally written that way.

Wow.

I hope you aren't a literary professor, you seem very much a "the curtains are just blue" kinda person with a small dash of "the moon landing was faked" degrees of leaps in logic.

DA

[(Anonymous)]

They're probably a student. Schools don't teach basic literary comprehension anymore.* The students are left to conclude that the curtains are always just blue because the teachers don't tell them there are other ways to read it. They're also left to assume that anything a character says is true (Data: "I have no emotions"), and if other characters say the opposite (Every other character on the show in every Data episode: "You seem to feel some way about this" "Your reaction to that was very human" while practically winking at the camera), it's because the writer was lazy and forgot what the first character said and created a plothole.

*Source: friends and family who are teachers.

Re: DA

[(Anonymous)]

We are not talking about Dostoevsky here. We are talking about Star Trek: The Next Generation, a show that had beautiful and sublime moments of brilliant writing, and also Code Of Honor and Angel One.

[(Anonymous)]

I think a genuinely emotionless character would have been incredibly boring TV. This inconsistency was always going to be the result.