[ SECRET POST #2395 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2395 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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02.
[The Most Popular Girls in School]


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03.
[Welcome to Night Vale]


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04.
[Gerard Way and Frank Iero]


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05.
[Mastumoto Jun]


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06.
[Macdonald Hall]


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07.
[Downton Abbey]


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08.
[Generator Rex]


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09.
[Neil Oliver]


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10.
[Star Trek]


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11.
[Star Trek: TNG]


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12.
[The Vampire Diaries]













Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 01 pages, 025 secrets from Secret Submission Post #342.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 1 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I think the writers were trying to write Pulaski as "thinks of Data as a fascinating machine, no more, no less", but it came off as insistent bullying -- after all, we as viewers already had a season to see and think of Data as much more! There's also a lost opportunity in not having her re-examine that belief in the ep where Data's autonomy from Starfleet is challenged.

There's a late-season ep, though, where I think she's written with a more palatable attitude towards him that could have developed into something interesting if she had stayed on for another season. It's the one where she pretty much pushes Data into playing a strategy game against an extremely skilled and arrogant visiting alien tactician. Data loses and ends up losing confidence in his decision-making, and while Pulaski is upset that a "computer" lost, she later chides him for having a bruised ego and then apologizes for manipulating him -- both attributing a high level of sentience and autonomy that she probably wouldn't have in the first half of the season. She also argues to Picard (who is in disbelief that Data can lose confidence) that the loss of confidence is the same, whether it's through human emotions or android algorithms, which I think is kind of huge for her character without sacrificing her central belief.

But yeah, I can't really watch her early interactions with Data without getting all "MAYBE YOU'RE THE HEARTLESS CLOCKWORK ;_;"