languatron
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Maybe it's because Ronald D. Moore sees every writing assignment as his "Personal Ego Project." He spends so much time trying to convince everyone that he is a brilliant writer (HE ISN'T), that somewhere along the way he never learned how to simply entertain the television audience. It's ironic that what Ronald D. Moore thinks is brilliant writing, is actually dysfunctional boredom and cliched clap-trap. Edward James Olmos has spent every moment in Ron Moore's production, with a scowl on his face. We are supposed to like this character Olmos is playing? Why? What is there to like about him? The other cast members play characters humping each other, screwing each other psychologically, and not having one likeable characteristic. Where is the brilliant writing in all of this? This isn't brilliant writing. It's "Paint By The Numbers/Easy To Create/Negative Conflict" drama. Anybody could write this CRAP, because it's easy as hell to write negative conflict, than it is to write cheerful, happy drama. Just ask the writing staff of "7th Heaven." They'll tell you how hard it is.
So, in creating his "Negative Conflict/Ego Project", Ronald D. Moore has isolated himself from the healthy impulses of the television viewing audience. The audience that is instinctively drawn to happy, well adjusted, and loving characters on the tv screen. What little audience watches his crap, looks at his CRAP on the tv screen, instead of becoming involved in it. Watching a Ronald D. Moore production is an "Uninvolving Spectator Sport." You're looking into the Roman Colliseum, and hoping that every character you are repulsed by, DIES. Moore and his cast members have created characters THAT WE ALL HOPE, WILL DIE.
This isn't entertaining television. You can't make a character who is a SON OF A BITCH, a likeable character. No matter how hard you try as a writer or producer. The moment you create a cast of characters who immediately repulse the television audience, you are digging your own grave as a writer/producer. And the myth continues in Hollywood, that if you create a piece of SHIT that is populated with unlikeable characters, you are somehow a brilliant writer or producer for having created it. I have never understood this DERANGED line of thinking in Hollywood.
Ego projects in Hollywood have always had a short life span on this Earth. John Travolta's "Battlefield: Earth" played to empty movie theaters. Michael Cimino worked his way right out of the Hollywood profession forever when he went millions over budget and shot miles of useless film for "Heaven's Gate" in 1980. The scriptwriting in "M.A.S.H." went way down hill when Larry Gelbart left the series and someone made the FATAL MISTAKE of telling Alan Alda he was a comic genius. The consequences were, episode after episode of Alan Alda and Mike Farrel uttering ridiculous clapt-trap back and forth to one another in the midst of threadbare plots.
I don't believe anyone told Ronald D. Moore he was a scriptwriting genius. I do believe however, that somewhere along the way he began telling it to himself. It clouded his ability to function normally as a writer. To make the right decisions in devising formats and conceiving characters. No writer in his right mind would have conceived of the "Six" character, being so close to emulating "Seven of Nine." Quite frankly, I believe Moore ran into good old fashioned writers block when devising his mini series characters. His EGO took over, told him to RIP-OFF "Seven Of Nine", and then try to convince everyone that he didn't.
Ronald D. Moore is not a viewer friendly writer. Moore writes from his EGO. It's his "EGO'S Way Or The Highway." If the television audience doesn't like it, Moore tells the audience to take a hike. A rather bold and reckless stance from a "NOBODY FORMER STAR TREK STAFF WRITER" who has nothing to fall back on financially if his Sci-Fi Channel deal falls flat on its face. To this day, Ronald D. Moore remains a BIG NOBODY. One of those "FORMER STAR TREK STAFF WRITERS" who BORED THE AUDIENCE TO DEATH.
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