For anyone who doesn't know, that's Seven of Nine's actress on Voyager. I'm creeped out but not surprised, I guess, that he's dipping back into one of his first fandoms.
Screenshot in case he deletes the Tweet: https://imgur.com/nF17tMJ
Yeah, that was my first thought, too. It's not like her answer is automatically the "right" one anyway?? She's not the only creative force behind the character.
At best this feels like a flimsy excuse to @ a celebrity. At worst, if she had responded, that gives him a scrap of approval/authority over a tiny detail about Voyager.
Seven of Nine is the more common spelling from what I can tell. Which (intentionally or not) hedges the bet in Andy's favor no matter what, because either he gets to be right, or he gets to be the reason a ton of people who love Voyager enough to follow Jeri Ryan on Twitter find out she prefers 7 of 9.
Okay sorry to respond to myself but I'm looking at it again and seeing a different angle. Andy outright says that his version is the one in the credits, which pretty much solidifies it as canon. He's asking if 7 of 9 is... acceptable? Synonymous?
I haven't seen all of Voyager but there's at least Trek precedent that points to an answer: Data points out his own name is pronounced "Dayta," not "Dah-ta," is asked what the difference is, and says "One is my name. The other is not." Differentiating his name from the word "data."
On the one hand it feels weird to waste tweet space explaining the RL context instead of asking something like "How does Seven feel about her name? Is it a Dayta/Dahta situation, or is 7 of 9 acceptable?" That would be a more tempting conversation starter for me if I was Seven's actor, especially because her character was supposed to be "the Data" (the Spock, the Odo, etc) of Voyager.
On the other hand the "friend" (real or not) might have felt like a necessary excuse to throw out there for any of us who happened to see the tweet.
On the third hand, I think I'm over-analyzing things. Was it TeaBlogger or someone else who suggested that Andy is overly wordy on purpose to confuse people? Seems to be working on me lol.
It feels like his usual "I totally and DEEPLY understand this" type of casual nerd-bragging, with a side of dragging in a friend as his Reason For Doing A Fandom Thing.
The whole thing feels unnecessarily wordy, and uncomfortably assertive. No question marks. It's an imperative with a "please" tacked on for politeness.
"Is it 7 of 9 or Seven of Nine?" gets the main point across immediately, but isn't as attention-grabbing or ~smart~ as a tweet full of words like "autonomy" and "numerals," I guess.
Today he retweeted Sarah Silverman with a comment about his cats hating fireworks. I don't follow him or anything so I have no idea if he makes a habit of stuff like this, but it seems like a red flag for someone with his track record re: celebrities.
Not entirely sure why it bugs you, but it bugs ME because:
a) It is purple prose word salad b) It is grammatically awkward and unclear, particularly the "all about" part. It should at least say, "... in a character who is all about claiming...", although that wouldn't really help much c) It is typical Andy wankery
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(Anonymous) 2020-06-22 05:03 am (UTC)(link)https://twitter.com/AndrewMBlake/status/1270143543433064448
For anyone who doesn't know, that's Seven of Nine's actress on Voyager. I'm creeped out but not surprised, I guess, that he's dipping back into one of his first fandoms.
Screenshot in case he deletes the Tweet: https://imgur.com/nF17tMJ
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(Anonymous) 2020-06-22 08:51 pm (UTC)(link)Yeah, that was my first thought, too. It's not like her answer is automatically the "right" one anyway?? She's not the only creative force behind the character.
At best this feels like a flimsy excuse to @ a celebrity. At worst, if she had responded, that gives him a scrap of approval/authority over a tiny detail about Voyager.
Seven of Nine is the more common spelling from what I can tell. Which (intentionally or not) hedges the bet in Andy's favor no matter what, because either he gets to be right, or he gets to be the reason a ton of people who love Voyager enough to follow Jeri Ryan on Twitter find out she prefers 7 of 9.
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(Anonymous) 2020-06-22 09:10 pm (UTC)(link)Okay sorry to respond to myself but I'm looking at it again and seeing a different angle. Andy outright says that his version is the one in the credits, which pretty much solidifies it as canon. He's asking if 7 of 9 is... acceptable? Synonymous?
I haven't seen all of Voyager but there's at least Trek precedent that points to an answer: Data points out his own name is pronounced "Dayta," not "Dah-ta," is asked what the difference is, and says "One is my name. The other is not." Differentiating his name from the word "data."
On the one hand it feels weird to waste tweet space explaining the RL context instead of asking something like "How does Seven feel about her name? Is it a Dayta/Dahta situation, or is 7 of 9 acceptable?" That would be a more tempting conversation starter for me if I was Seven's actor, especially because her character was supposed to be "the Data" (the Spock, the Odo, etc) of Voyager.
On the other hand the "friend" (real or not) might have felt like a necessary excuse to throw out there for any of us who happened to see the tweet.
On the third hand, I think I'm over-analyzing things. Was it TeaBlogger or someone else who suggested that Andy is overly wordy on purpose to confuse people? Seems to be working on me lol.
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(Anonymous) 2020-06-22 08:40 pm (UTC)(link)It feels like his usual "I totally and DEEPLY understand this" type of casual nerd-bragging, with a side of dragging in a friend as his Reason For Doing A Fandom Thing.
The whole thing feels unnecessarily wordy, and uncomfortably assertive. No question marks. It's an imperative with a "please" tacked on for politeness.
"Is it 7 of 9 or Seven of Nine?" gets the main point across immediately, but isn't as attention-grabbing or ~smart~ as a tweet full of words like "autonomy" and "numerals," I guess.
Today he retweeted Sarah Silverman with a comment about his cats hating fireworks. I don't follow him or anything so I have no idea if he makes a habit of stuff like this, but it seems like a red flag for someone with his track record re: celebrities.
https://twitter.com/AndrewMBlake/status/1274965157165232128
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(Anonymous) 2020-09-10 07:30 pm (UTC)(link)a) It is purple prose word salad
b) It is grammatically awkward and unclear, particularly the "all about" part. It should at least say, "... in a character who is all about claiming...", although that wouldn't really help much
c) It is typical Andy wankery
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(Anonymous) 2020-09-10 07:36 pm (UTC)(link)no subject
(Anonymous) 2020-09-13 12:37 pm (UTC)(link)From someone else it might seem innocuous, if presumptive. From Andy it feels like “forced teaming”.