YMMV / Star Trek: The Next Generation S2E14 "The Icarus Factor"

• 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 TRON suits fighting in American Gladiators.
• Narm Charm: While the anbo-jyutsu match might challenge the "Tasha flailing around at another woman on a children's climbing frame" scene from "Code of Honor" as the biggest Fight Scene Failure in TNG's whole run, Jonathan Frakes and Mitchell Ryan 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 Like You Would Really Do It 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.
• Unintentionally Unsympathetic: 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 deadbeat dad, by his own admission, no less, and yet the Character Shilling goes on about how Will should forgive him.

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