"So is this the good Olaf, via South Park, or the evil Olaf as in the old Star Trek?"
....whaaat? What the fuck is she talking about? Obviously she's making references to these series, but I don't know what episodes, and I also don't see how the fuck it makes sense since last I checked there was no good Olaf at all. This is just so...awkward and weird and random and I don't know if it's meant to be hip and witty and LKH showing her supposed nerd-cred or what but my only reaction is an eternal WTF every time I see this line.
It ass-backwards. In Star Trek the Original Series (TOS) there was an episode where Kirk, Uhura, and Bones switched places with their 'evil' clones from a parallel universe. This mirror universe was often referred to as the 'Dark' version of the Trek universe, (they later expand upon it in Deep Space 9). In this Dark Universe, Mirror-Spock had a beard...a very obvious fake beard which became something of a joke as it filtered through pop culture. When people started making jokes about evil clones, they would bring up the bearded Spock as in 'evil clones always wear a beard.'
South Park later did an episode that played on this. Stan, Kyle, Cartmen and Kenny encounter their doppelgangers from a parallel universe, and the 'evil' clones all have beards. Except in this mirror universe, Mirror-Cartmen is actually a 'good' clone (still has the beard). The joke is that Cartman from regular South Park is so evil that his 'evil' clone is actually good.
But yeah, not sure what LKH is going with this quote, as the South Park episode is just parodying what happened in the TOS mirror universe episode. Referencing both is a bit redundant. It also fails as Mirror-Spock was actually a good guy, in relation to everyone else in his universe.
I doubt LKH watches South Park as they've been known to mock goths and vampire romances/erotica from time to time. And considering how butthurt she got when another writer made an off-hand comment about disliking vampire erotica, I'm guessing that she would lose her shit over those SP episodes. LKH has no sense of humor and lacks the ability to laugh at herself or take anything about her and her work lightly.
I also doubt she watches Trek, not enough sex for her. Like I said, a lot of TOS is deeply ingrained into pop culture. You don't have to even know the name Star Trek to know of the 'evil bearded clone' trope. Name dropping something like this does not impress me.
The thing of it is, Jim Butcher does Trek/Star Wars/nerd references and they work. He is an actual nerd and knows his shit. LKH is just name-dropping to show how 'hip' and cool she is. She's probably referencing Trek because of those Nu-Trek movies, hoping to show those young-uns that she still knows whats going on. That's why she dresses like a 14 yr old who shops exclusively at Hot Topic, she's desperate to prove that she is still cool and young, even as she ages day by day, decaying and fading away while the rest of the youth ignore her in favor of Twilight. It really must piss her off that today's 'gothic' youth are more into Twilight and have never even heard the name 'Laurell K Hamilton.'
Sorry for the rant, as a hard-core Trekkie, it really pisses me off to see something like this. I wonder if she even realizes how badass Uhura was in the Mirror universe episode.
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....whaaat? What the fuck is she talking about? Obviously she's making references to these series, but I don't know what episodes, and I also don't see how the fuck it makes sense since last I checked there was no good Olaf at all. This is just so...awkward and weird and random and I don't know if it's meant to be hip and witty and LKH showing her supposed nerd-cred or what but my only reaction is an eternal WTF every time I see this line.
It ass-backwards. In Star Trek the Original Series (TOS) there was an episode where Kirk, Uhura, and Bones switched places with their 'evil' clones from a parallel universe. This mirror universe was often referred to as the 'Dark' version of the Trek universe, (they later expand upon it in Deep Space 9). In this Dark Universe, Mirror-Spock had a beard...a very obvious fake beard which became something of a joke as it filtered through pop culture. When people started making jokes about evil clones, they would bring up the bearded Spock as in 'evil clones always wear a beard.'
South Park later did an episode that played on this. Stan, Kyle, Cartmen and Kenny encounter their doppelgangers from a parallel universe, and the 'evil' clones all have beards. Except in this mirror universe, Mirror-Cartmen is actually a 'good' clone (still has the beard). The joke is that Cartman from regular South Park is so evil that his 'evil' clone is actually good.
But yeah, not sure what LKH is going with this quote, as the South Park episode is just parodying what happened in the TOS mirror universe episode. Referencing both is a bit redundant. It also fails as Mirror-Spock was actually a good guy, in relation to everyone else in his universe.
I doubt LKH watches South Park as they've been known to mock goths and vampire romances/erotica from time to time. And considering how butthurt she got when another writer made an off-hand comment about disliking vampire erotica, I'm guessing that she would lose her shit over those SP episodes. LKH has no sense of humor and lacks the ability to laugh at herself or take anything about her and her work lightly.
I also doubt she watches Trek, not enough sex for her. Like I said, a lot of TOS is deeply ingrained into pop culture. You don't have to even know the name Star Trek to know of the 'evil bearded clone' trope. Name dropping something like this does not impress me.
The thing of it is, Jim Butcher does Trek/Star Wars/nerd references and they work. He is an actual nerd and knows his shit. LKH is just name-dropping to show how 'hip' and cool she is. She's probably referencing Trek because of those Nu-Trek movies, hoping to show those young-uns that she still knows whats going on. That's why she dresses like a 14 yr old who shops exclusively at Hot Topic, she's desperate to prove that she is still cool and young, even as she ages day by day, decaying and fading away while the rest of the youth ignore her in favor of Twilight. It really must piss her off that today's 'gothic' youth are more into Twilight and have never even heard the name 'Laurell K Hamilton.'
Sorry for the rant, as a hard-core Trekkie, it really pisses me off to see something like this. I wonder if she even realizes how badass Uhura was in the Mirror universe episode.