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:o the original Manci Pixie Dream girl

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manic_Pixie_Dream_Girl

That seems a bit disrespectul as a summary, even though I have to grudgingly admit that it's not wrong... It would have been nice for the article to say more about the woman, which would have mostly avoided the cliché!

I read the biography the article draws from and it also did not mention that much about her or their relationship. It delved deeply into Dirac's childhood, but mostly ignored his home life as an adult.

It makes some sense, it is a biography of Dirac, but felt strange at the time.

But the whole article is a cliché!

The socially incompetent techie who is rescued by love from his rationality.

I dont wanna guess how many readers here secretly hope for this event to occur at some point. Like in the story, ideally they'd not even have to court the woman. She would just appear and take care of them. Cliché!

It does echo a bad Nicholas Sparks novel (they're all bad). But when the cliché is writ large in real life, it's touching, no? Secretly hoping for _something_ to magically rescue us from the emotional difficulties of our lives ... of course. Likelihood of it happening: (1.0 e -42).

Thanks for the link. Reading the article it seems that Dirac was a jerk, his only “luck” was that back in the day physicists were treated like rockstars were treated in the ‘70s and the ‘80s, otherwise I cannot explain why Margit Wigner accepted all those dick letter responses coming from him.

And the original mr. Spock?

honestly closer to Mr. Data. Spock had emotions that were repressed; Data thought he didn't have them and had to discover them, as they were relatively weak.

I believe Data actually needed an 'emotion chip'. I recall some episode where he received one. Sometimes I think that's a pretty good description of most men (we need an emotion chip). I say that as a man, FYI.

If you have time in the covid pandemic SIP era, go back and watch the episodes, it was a running gag that he would do something extremely human, downright emotional, and not realize it. Couple of examples off the top of my head: "The ensigns of command", final scene, where Data says goodbye to Gosheven; "Data's Day", where he proclaims that if he had 'gut feelings' he would be suspicious of the 'vulcan ambassador'; "In theory" where Data 'learns' some "toxic male" emotional behaviour by consuming media.

"The Most Toys" is another very good example, as is "The Measure of a Man". There's not much in TNG, especially early TNG, that strongly moves me, but his conversation with Riker in the latter episode's coda never fails to.

I wonder where Jordan from the film Real Genius fits in to that. She was definitely manic in the film.

But an agent of herself.

Chris Knight is Mitch’s pixie dust, not Jordan. “I couldn’t figure out where to hang your sports coats,so, i threw them out. I’m chris knight!” “oh no” “oh yes!”

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