Tuesday, January 6, 2009

The hammer falls

Matt Yglesias comes out: Deep Space Nine is his favorite Star Trek series and Voyager is his least favorite. Pretty much the same here. And it's not like there are too many protesters on his comment thread: most of the Voyager defenders are making arguments along the lines of "Seven of Nine was hot", "it was dopey fun sometimes", or "Enterprise was worse". The fact that all of these are true, and that nobody seems to be insisting that Voyager actually had great acting (impossible) or great stories tells you everything you need to know.
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The Man, The Myth, The Bio

East Bay, California, United States
Problem: I have lots of opinions on politics and culture that I need to vent. If I do not do this I will wind up muttering to myself, and that's only like one or two steps away from being a hobo. Solution: I write two blogs. A political blog that has some evident sympathies (pro-Obama, mostly liberal though I dissent on some issues, like guns and trade) and a culture blog that does, well, cultural essays in a more long-form manner. My particular thing is taking overrated things (movies, mostly, but other things too) down a peg and putting underrated things up a peg. I'm sort of the court of last resort, and I tend to focus on more obscure cultural phenomena.