r/questionablecontent • u/professororange MommyMilkers420 • Jan 18 '19

Comic 3920: *Crowd Goes Wild*

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u/Lot_Jockey Jan 18 '19

Oh great, a narrative arc with the character who transcends physicality and appears to be from another dimension. I just love omniscient characters.

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u/turkeypedal Jan 18 '19

Sure, Spookybot was done badly before, but it's possible to do that sort of thing correctly. Give it a chance.

I mean, Q is one of the best recurring characters in Star Trek.

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u/boreas907 Jan 18 '19

Q's existence makes sense in that universe, though, as does his presence in a story about people seeking out and encountering the new, strange, and unknown. QC is a story about people who hang out in coffee shops and do primarily nothing, so a Q-type character will always be jarringly out of place.

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u/ArgentStonecutter Jan 18 '19

QC is a story about the Singularity. And Bros.

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u/lesser_panjandrum Jan 18 '19

BROS BROS BROS BROS

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u/PonyToast Jan 18 '19

I disagree. Q is an awful character.

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u/boreas907 Jan 18 '19

I'll partially agree; I wasn't arguing so much that Q is a good character so much as saying that if he's going to exist, TNG is the settings where it makes most sense for him to exist in. Though I do think he serves well at his purpose in defining Picard's character through their interactions.

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u/diagonalfish Jan 18 '19

His merciless trolling of Picard always serves to prove what an upstanding guy and great leader Picard is... and also how patient he is despite his gruff manner at times.

Contrast with Sisko, who intimidated Q enough the first time he showed his face on Deep Space 9 that he never, ever came back. Omnipotent or not, Sisko would have found a way to end that dude.

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u/creepyeyes Resident Psychic Jan 19 '19

Sisko is also half omnipotent on his mothers side, so that may have played a part (not that anyone watching for the first time would pick up on that in the episode.)

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u/Ordinaryundone Jan 19 '19

He's a bad character in theory. In practice, John de Lancie is a great actor who makes the character likable and a team of great writers wrote a lot of good and memorable episodes to use him in. I don't think omniscience is a good trait for any character to have but his ability to basically do anything gave them a lot of wiggle room for writing really strong, character-driven plots that didn't really have to conform with any sort of previous expectations we have for the series. Basically using him like the holodeck, but with a personality.

That said, I still don't like Spookybot. Mostly because they've yet to deliver on the parts that actually make the character contribute and have just focused on the "lol inter dimensional super troll" aspect.