I don’t see it as acting “like a teenager”. These eccentricities seem more to me as being representative of a person who knows all the rules (both formal and informal), and has decided which ones are worth breaking – whether it’s for personal comfort or if it’s for a more purposeful reason, that I can’t say.
Complaints about her demeanor remind me of people who complain about nurses with tattoos or dyed hair for being “unprofessional”. They clearly have the resume and skills for the role.
SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca 5 hours ago
That’s a perfect description of how a teenager thinks.
An adult thinks about responsibility and the effect their behaviour has on others. A captain of a ship is responsible for the lives of everyone aboard their ship. The crew of a ship takes cues from the captain. If the captain is acting like a lazy teenager, the crew is likely to follow her lead. They start blowing off some of their duties because the captain doesn’t give a shit, so why should we?
Have you ever been an airplane? Why do they even bother wearing uniforms? You could perform the job functions of piloting an aircraft wearing a T-shirt and shorts. IT would be a lot more comfortable, so why do they wear uniforms? They wear uniforms and behave professionally because people tend to get nervous when people in positions of responsibility look like they don’t give a shit. And adults understand how they appear affect others around them, so they make an effort to look and behave professionally for the sake of other people. A selfish teenager doesn’t think this way and thinks they should feel comfortable and everyone else should change how they think.
Bottom line, she’s behaving in a way that teenagers might relate to, but she’s not behaving the way someone that’s responsible for people’s lives would behave. A captain may need to give an order and have it followed without hesitation would want the people under her command to think of her as a serious person. Not a teenager that bends the rules for the sake of her own comfort.
So yeah… it breaks immersion to have a captain acting like a teenager. It’s just an actor that didn’t bother to think about how captains in real life behave thinking it’s cute to be sitting in the captain’s chair like a teenager would. Not believable as a captain responsible for people’s lives.