Re: 3rd Season Enterprise - Carpenter Street - 5 star poll - SPOILERS AHOY!

Once Upon A Time Derek wrote:

>On 01 Dec 2003, Captain Infinity posted the following to
>alt.tv.star-trek.enterprise: 
>
>> Once Upon A Time Brian Thorn wrote:
>> 
>>>On Sun, 30 Nov 2003 22:52:48 -0500, Captain Infinity
>>><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>>
>>>>>I may have missed something, but I think we only saw Archer
>>>>>*pull out* from a parallel parking job (when he stole the
>>>>>car). He didn't actually park a car that way.
>>>>
>>>>You did miss something.  When Archer pulled up to the lab
>>>>building he neatly slid the car beside the curb, as if he'd
>>>>been doing it all his life.
>>>
>>>That's not parallel parking... that's just plain parking.
>> 
>> Parking parallel to the curb is parallel parking, as opposed to
>> diagonal parking or perpendicular parking.  And all three are
>> just plain parking. 
>
>But simply pulling up to the side of the road and stopping is not 
>"parallel parking" in the sense that there were no other cars 
>present.
>
>If parking parallel to the curb is "parallel parking", one could 
>argue that the parking job he did in the parking lot was parallel, 
>given that he parked next to the curb.

This is a pointless discussion.  The bottom line is that Archer parked
the damned car flawlessly, which is highly unlikely.  I've been driving
for twenty years and just today I rubbed a curb while parking.  The scene
kicked the ass of my suspension of disbelief and took my attention away
from the story.  Good writing wouldn't do that.  


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