TheAlbatross

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 hours ago (7 children)

What's with the hostility here?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Hey I'm actually baffled by your reply. You clearly didn't know there were 5 actors who played Alexander, because if you did, you'd know they were mostly one offs, from a different series at a different age or, uh, a photograph. It's like you saw my comment, decided to reply to it, searched "Star Trek Alexander actor" and read the headline of the first result, a Screen Rant article titled "Star Trek: All 5 Actors Who Played Worf's Son, Alexander", and decided "That's enough info, I'm ready to reply to that comment."

Clearly you didn't read the article, otherwise you wouldn't reply the way you did, because you'd know why there's 5 Alexander's and it wasn't because the writers were trying to fix the issue.

I'm not mad or annoyed or anything, I'm just utterly baffled by how you use the internet.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

That's.. not quite right. Did you get this from skimming Wikipedia? It's true that the first TNG ep featuring Alexander had someone other than Bonsall play the role, that kid stopped acting almost immediately after. Bonsall played Alexander for the rest of TNG. They age up Alexander significantly for his return in DS9, so, yeah, needs a different actor. There's a TNG ep where Alexander comes back from the future to try and correct what a shitty character they made, so that's probably your "fourth" Alexander and I'm not sure where the fifth comes from.

Edit: Looked that one up. The "Fifth Alexander" is a technicality. Worf has a picture of him and Alexander as one of his personal effects that he brings with him onto DS9 and the person in that picture "playing" Alexander is uncredited, but makes no other appearance other than being in that photo.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Star Trek has always struggled with child actors, but I think Bonsall was really just too young to handle the role. In part, I think the writers realized this and tried to cut him out, but this lead to the issue of making Worf look like a horrible father, so they bring him back and repeat.

He was a child so I can't put any blame on Bonsall, but I truly think it was a serious mistake to cast him for that.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 17 hours ago

Hmmm perhaps but where is the financial incentive?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 19 hours ago (7 children)

Brian Bonsall as Alexander in Star Trek The Next Generation.

The role was poorly thought out and written, that's not his fault, but the kid always looked wildly uncomfortable in the loaf and couldn't act at all.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (1 children)

Leaving the coasts somehow sets you up for experiencing overt antisemitism. In Arizona, I was genuinely asked if matzo contains the blood of Christian children and I was expected to pay most of the time since "He's a Jew, he's got plenty". In NOLA I was asked to leave a bar by patrons with swastika tattoos. In Colorado, at a conference (they were from NC, I picked up a "fan" who wanted to shout Nazi slogans and do the salute around me after they overheard me speaking Yiddish.

I'm so sorry you were attacked in NOLA, it's absurd that we have to put up with this shit. I truly hope we can be free from this stupidity one day.

America is fucked up.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The second guy is way braver to put themselves out there like that, you go dude, enjoy yourself

[–] [email protected] 57 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Ain't payin no $80 for no game

[–] [email protected] 49 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Gotta remember that AI isn't occasionally hallucinating and often recalling information, it's never recalling information, it's always hallucinating, just that we say we like some of the hallucinations, so it does those more often.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Actually this is pretty goofy, isn't it? "Oh you can look at these tools for murder and destruction, but not those? Those are currently being dropped on civilians and kids, these merely have the potential to be dropped on them.

Like fuck Israel, but I'm not gonna pretend they invented bombing innocents.

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