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Enterprise has had sort of a reappraisal I think
Except the last episode
The later seasons improve, but it's still hamstrung by one of the core problems Voyager had. The writing for the captain was generally awful and the writers seemed to play favorites with what they gave the rest of the crew. One of the big things about DS9, other than the general high quality of the work, is that everyone on the cast got a little sumptin sumptin from the writers. Voyager and Enterprise, not so much.
Justice for...ummmm.....these guys?
Discovering it means someone *found* it.
But it is linguistically problematic now I think about it.
I absolutely loved the lead up to that "What's Dom Jot?" "A game Nausicaan's are very bad at but love to bet on for some reason." Which was both funny in its own right, and precision-crafted funny as a call back to TNG's Tapestry.
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Unless Bakula came up with the idea of having Archer's dog piss on a holy tree and then have Archer be angry that the locals didn't like it, I'm going to go with the writers being the ones who were doing a bad job. This is the writer's room that came up with Dear Doctor after all.
Like 'discovering' America or Australia. Those people living there already hadn't written it down, so it didn't count.
That said, I did try to watch the first episode of LD, but It's just way to fast and frenetic for me. I'm just getting to old for this hyperactive animation style.
It does slow down somewhat as it goes along. I might try random episode from the second or third season to see if it’s something you’d be into.
I'm going to guess based on the translation...
It took me a while to get into LD, and the first ep was rough yeah (esp the random boimler stabbing at the start)
i cant pretend I love the animation style but i wish I hadnt dismissed it because of it I only really started watching it because of this thread and thought 'well I must be missing out'
Second Season Only
A random 3rd season episode could be the Bird People episode which I would not want to walk into cold
It's literally the same opening as Rick and Morty; older, terrible mentor figure comes in completely drunk and forces the sober mentee into a dangerous situation. It even flows similarly, it's uncanny.
1.9 Crisis Point is a loving homage to TOS movies with a point
1.10 No Small Parts is just pure Star Trek with a wonderful payoff.
If you don't enjoy those, it's not your jam - and that's ok!
I recently saw that again for the first time since original broadcast.
It's still bad!
Enterprise is a just a pretty bad show. Yeah it supposedly gets better in the later seasons, but to get there you have to get through one of the worst show pilots out there, possibly the dumbest and most whiney star trek captain ever, and eventually, when the show was struggling to keep an audience, a completely unnecessary, demeaning, and insulting TnA scene with Jolene Blalok, who I believe was an actual Trek fan who had always wanted to act on a Trek show.\
Edit: Though I do have to remind myself when I talk about Enterprise how TNG had some real offensive episodes in those first two seasons and had plenty bad writing. And it also wasn't above its own unnecessary TnA scenes like the infamous girls stretching in tights scene.
And Archer is just annoying! He seems to hate his job most of the time. Dude, you're in frickin' space, lighten up!
And that last episode....wow. Way to insult fans and cast at the same time Berman.
But there are some good things about Enterprise. And not just grapplers. S4 is better and in many ways I'd recommend just watching that.
One of my favorite reviewers has a particularly negative response to Crisis Point, and after mulling it over I really can't blame him.
SfDebris, the reviewer in question, used to teach in American public school. He was actually unable to finish watching the episode because
He lived in a world where a school shooting could happen at any time, caused by any student, teacher, or stranger off the street. If he knew that a coworker was role-playing a murder of all of the teachers, he would never work with that person again.
I liked the episode, but I can't argue at all with that viewpoint.
But fuck you — no, fuck y'all, that's as blunt as it gets"
- Kendrick Lamar, "The Blacker the Berry"
I started to respond to this, but then I remembered that my own high school experience was almost 40 years ago.
A lot has changed and/or "hits different", as they say.
Yes I can see that. But critically the episode has much to say on that issue and I think the resolution justifies what happens before as a warning lesson, not a thrill.
Also I happen to love
But fuck you — no, fuck y'all, that's as blunt as it gets"
- Kendrick Lamar, "The Blacker the Berry"