Rosalyn Landor's sheer hotness cannot compensate for a poorly written episode.
I am the last person who is offended about anything, but when a show depicts Irish people in a way that would be equivalent to showing black people brandishing spears and wearing bone jewelry (and they came close to doing so in season 1, episode 4), I must object. It's like the writers had a checklist of every negative stereotype about Irish people, and they went the extra step in not just checking off all of the boxes --they used English ACTORS to portray the Irish "rabble." I've been on a marathon binge of the show during the last month. Am I going to see Turkish actors portraying Armenians as idiots next? Also, the cloning plot was painfully obtuse. Picard (not an exact quotation, but it should be): "They just abducted two of my crew members, forcefully extracted their DNA then forced them to kill their clone selves. Hmmmm.. How can I HELP them now? I KNOW: I have some extra sacks of DNA laying around in the form of these Irish farmhands. That's the ticket."
Horrible episode. I will award three stars to it just because Rosalyn Landor is probably the sexiest woman who has ever appeared on Next Generation, and she did a good job acting-wise as well.
I am the last person who is offended about anything, but when a show depicts Irish people in a way that would be equivalent to showing black people brandishing spears and wearing bone jewelry (and they came close to doing so in season 1, episode 4), I must object. It's like the writers had a checklist of every negative stereotype about Irish people, and they went the extra step in not just checking off all of the boxes --they used English ACTORS to portray the Irish "rabble." I've been on a marathon binge of the show during the last month. Am I going to see Turkish actors portraying Armenians as idiots next? Also, the cloning plot was painfully obtuse. Picard (not an exact quotation, but it should be): "They just abducted two of my crew members, forcefully extracted their DNA then forced them to kill their clone selves. Hmmmm.. How can I HELP them now? I KNOW: I have some extra sacks of DNA laying around in the form of these Irish farmhands. That's the ticket."
Horrible episode. I will award three stars to it just because Rosalyn Landor is probably the sexiest woman who has ever appeared on Next Generation, and she did a good job acting-wise as well.