#trekkers

Me:

When I was younger I had these books: “The Nitpicker’s Guide for Classic Trekkers.” The title alone was a play on the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, so you knew right away not to take it seriously.

Inside these books, every single episode and movie of classic Star Trek was laid out. First with a summary of what happened, then a list of “nitpicks” detailing mistakes or trivia the writer found. These could be anything from simple wardrobe malfunctions, to incorrect turbo-lift numbers, to genuine plot holes.

All of it was done with a tongue in cheek way. You weren’t supposed to take these seriously. The idea that someone would dedicate THIS MUCH TIME to nitpicking a sci-fi TV show was part of the in-joke.

Then something weird happened during the mid 2000’s, and now nitpicking and listing off “sins” for films has become a quantifiable metric people will actually use.

Which is stupid.

Art is subjective. No amount of legitimate continuity errors makes a film automatically good or bad if the positive feelings it creates resonates with you. This is one of the reasons why people love watching “bad” movies.