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* UnintentionallyUnsympathetic: It's difficult to feel any of the emotional pathos of Will and Kyle seemingly setting aside their differences after Kyle dismisses abandoning Will at age fifteen, describing raising Will as "hanging in there" after Will's mother died, and telling him effectively to just get over "the pain of [his] childhood." Kyle Riker unambiguously gets shown as a DeadbeatDad, by his own admission, no less, and yet the CharacterShilling goes on about how Will should forgive him.
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* UnintentionallyUnsympathetic: It's difficult to feel any of the emotional pathos of Will and Kyle seemingly setting aside their differences after Kyle dismisses abandoning Will at age fifteen, describing raising Will as "hanging in there" after Will's mother died, and telling him effectively to just get over "the pain of [his] childhood." Kyle Riker unambiguously gets shown as a DeadbeatDad, [[ParentalNeglect deadbeat dad]], by his own admission, no less, and yet the CharacterShilling goes on about how Will should forgive him.
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* UnintentionallyUnsympathetic: It's difficult to feel any of the emotional pathos of Will and Kyle seemingly setting aside their differences after Kyle dismisses abandoning Will at age fifteen, describing raising Will as "hanging in there" after Will's mother died, and telling him effectively to just get over "the pain of [his] childhood." Kyle Riker unambiguously gets shown as a DeadbeatDad, by his own admission, no less, and yet the CharacterShilling goes on about how Will should forgive him.
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* {{Narm}}: Calling anbo-jyutsu "the ultimate evolution of martial arts" would be a bit more believable if it didn't look like two guys in Film/{{Tron}} suits fighting in ''Series/AmericanGladiators''.
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* {{Narm}}: Calling anbo-jyutsu "the ultimate evolution of martial arts" would be a bit more believable if it didn't look like two guys in Film/{{Tron}} suits fighting in ''Series/AmericanGladiators''.''Series/AmericanGladiators''.
* NarmCharm: While the anbo-jyutsu match might challenge the "Tasha flailing around at another woman on a children's climbing frame" scene from "[[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS1E3CodeOfHonor Code of Honor]]" as the biggest FightSceneFailure in TNG's whole run, Creator/JonathanFrakes and Creator/MitchellRyan are genuinely giving it their all and trying to get some emotion out of the scene (Ron Jones' soundtrack also helps), creating an oddly endearing end result.
* {{Padding}}: A lot of the main storyline is spent listening to other characters trying to persuade Will how awesome Kyle is (and vice-versa) and how they should set their differences aside, which quickly gets repetitive and ends up having little bearing on the resolution of the story, which is having the two Rikers work out their differences by beating each other up in an anbo-jyutsu match. On top of that, Will's potentially taking command of the ''Aries'' is such a blatant LikeYouWouldReallyDoIt situation that the various scenes where the ''Enterprise'' crewmembers go into great detail about the ship, its crew and its mission all become pointless filler.
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* NarmCharm: While the anbo-jyutsu match might challenge the "Tasha flailing around at another woman on a children's climbing frame" scene from "[[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS1E3CodeOfHonor Code of Honor]]" as the biggest FightSceneFailure in TNG's whole run, Creator/JonathanFrakes and Creator/MitchellRyan are genuinely giving it their all and trying to get some emotion out of the scene (Ron Jones' soundtrack also helps), creating an oddly endearing end result.
* {{Padding}}: A lot of the main storyline is spent listening to other characters trying to persuade Will how awesome Kyle is (and vice-versa) and how they should set their differences aside, which quickly gets repetitive and ends up having little bearing on the resolution of the story, which is having the two Rikers work out their differences by beating each other up in an anbo-jyutsu match. On top of that, Will's potentially taking command of the ''Aries'' is such a blatant LikeYouWouldReallyDoIt situation that the various scenes where the ''Enterprise'' crewmembers go into great detail about the ship, its crew and its mission all become pointless filler.
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Both characters are supposed to be sympathetic, even if Kyle is more in the wrong than Riker.
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* {{Narm}}: Calling anbo-jyutsu "the ultimate evolution of martial arts" would be a bit more believable if it didn't look like two guys in Film/{{Tron}} suits fighting in ''Series/AmericanGladiators''.
* UnintentionallySympathetic: The episode portrays both Riker and his father as in the wrong, with Riker having an OedipusComplex and unable to let go of a grudge and Kyle expressing his feelings of sorrow at the loss of his wife like Riker is upset at the loss of his mom. Pulaski at one point calls Riker out on being petty. But that doesn't change the fact that Kyle ditched his son when he was thirteen and didn't talk to him for fifteen years. Riker's anger is justified, even if Kyle was hurting Riker still has every right to hold a grudge against his father.
* UnintentionallySympathetic: The episode portrays both Riker and his father as in the wrong, with Riker having an OedipusComplex and unable to let go of a grudge and Kyle expressing his feelings of sorrow at the loss of his wife like Riker is upset at the loss of his mom. Pulaski at one point calls Riker out on being petty. But that doesn't change the fact that Kyle ditched his son when he was thirteen and didn't talk to him for fifteen years. Riker's anger is justified, even if Kyle was hurting Riker still has every right to hold a grudge against his father.
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* {{Narm}}: Calling anbo-jyutsu "the ultimate evolution of martial arts" would be a bit more believable if it didn't look like two guys in Film/{{Tron}} suits fighting in ''Series/AmericanGladiators''.
* UnintentionallySympathetic: The episode portrays both Riker and his father as in the wrong, with Riker having an OedipusComplex and unable to let go of a grudge and Kyle expressing his feelings of sorrow at the loss of his wife like Riker is upset at the loss of his mom. Pulaski at one point calls Riker out on being petty. But that doesn't change the fact that Kyle ditched his son when he was thirteen and didn't talk to him for fifteen years. Riker's anger is justified, even if Kyle was hurting Riker still has every right to hold a grudge against his father.''Series/AmericanGladiators''.
* UnintentionallySympathetic: The episode portrays both Riker and his father as in the wrong, with Riker having an OedipusComplex and unable to let go of a grudge and Kyle expressing his feelings of sorrow at the loss of his wife like Riker is upset at the loss of his mom. Pulaski at one point calls Riker out on being petty. But that doesn't change the fact that Kyle ditched his son when he was thirteen and didn't talk to him for fifteen years. Riker's anger is justified, even if Kyle was hurting Riker still has every right to hold a grudge against his father.
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* {{Narm}}: Calling anbo-jyutsu "the ultimate evolution of martial arts" would be a bit more believable if it didn't look like two guys in Film/{{Tron}} suits fighting in ''Series/AmericanGladiators''.
* UnintentionallySympathetic: The episode portrays both Riker and his father as in the wrong, with Riker having an OedipusComplex and unable to let go of a grudge and Kyle expressing his feelings of sorrow at the loss of his wife like Riker is upset at the loss of his mom. Pulaski at one point calls Riker out on being petty. But that doesn't change the fact that Kyle ditched his son when he was thirteen and didn't talk to him for fifteen years. Riker's anger is justified, even if Kyle was hurting Riker still has every right to hold a grudge against his father.
* UnintentionallySympathetic: The episode portrays both Riker and his father as in the wrong, with Riker having an OedipusComplex and unable to let go of a grudge and Kyle expressing his feelings of sorrow at the loss of his wife like Riker is upset at the loss of his mom. Pulaski at one point calls Riker out on being petty. But that doesn't change the fact that Kyle ditched his son when he was thirteen and didn't talk to him for fifteen years. Riker's anger is justified, even if Kyle was hurting Riker still has every right to hold a grudge against his father.
