Re: Anyone ever watch Enterprise?
- From: "Slitheen" <Slitheen23@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 15 Jun 2008 23:57:47 +0100
"Mike Van Pelt" <mike.vanpelt@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I liked the actors and the characters they portrayed ... except for
that over-the-top twitchy neurotic security guy. Later, he got
better, though.
"Enterprise" should have been a whole lot better than it ended up
being, and that's entirely the fault of the decisions made about what
kind of stories to tell. This should have been a show that was really,
*really* big into that whole "sense of wonder" thing; this crew is
going out where no human has ever been before, seeing things no human
has ever seen.
Instead, they saddled the series with that abominably stupid "temporal
cold war" atrocity, and did aliens that made no sense. Time travel
should never, ever, not once, been mentioned. Ever. At all.
They really should have stuck pretty much to alien civilizations that
were known in Kirk's time. They messed up the Tellerites. What they
did to the Vulcans constitutes rape with violence. On the other hand,
they did a fabulous job on the Andorians.
They should have done more, a *lot* more, with the boomers. That's a
whole civilization of humans out there, slow-boating from one star to
another, raising generations of families living in space. Fascinating.
And they did nothing much with it.
The whole Xindi arc I'm ambivalent about. Some parts of it were good,
but it was too tightly interwoven with that whole Temporal Cold War
abomination.
The "Mirror Mirror" universe episode, which showed the other side of
"The Tholian Web". I really liked what they did with the Tholian, and
the whole sequence with the Gorn was also fabulous. Most especially
using the ship's gravity as a weapon. (Though it does ruin the plot of
a whole bunch of other episodes of Trek over the years, as "Why don't
they crank up the Gs on <invader of the week> then?")
I kept watching. It was uneven, with some good episodes, and some
really putrid ones. (But even Old Trek... Dare I mention "Spock's
Brain"?)
The final season I liked more, once Coto got past the stupid Nazi bit
he was saddled with from the previous season's cliffhanger. Until...
Until...
That horrible disaster of the final episode. Pure, unadulterated
stupidity, and killing Trip off in the most stupid, ludicrous way.
What a bad taste to leave the fans with. Bleah.
I like the way Trip selflessly sacrificed himself to save his
crewmates...what was ludicrous about it? I don't see he had much choice.
"There's just one more thing I need to tell you.....you can all go straight
to hell!" Fizzle, crackle...KABOOOM!
It was cool :)
--
Slitheen.
"I've searched the phrase 'I shall walk the Earth and my hunger shall know
no bounds', but I keep getting redirected to Weight Watchers!"
Ianto Jones, Torchwood.
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