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beccaelizabeth) wrote2011-02-09 02:01 pm
beccaelizabeth) wrote2011-02-09 02:01 pm
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ST:TNG Genesis & Masks and season 7
I just watched Genesis.
I... what? I mean, what?
... somebody decided to film that. On purpose.
I know they do all sorts of terrible things to science. I'm well aware of this. But there's terrible, and there's terrible-and-pointless. I mean, really, what was the point of all that? 'Worf turns into a giant exoskeleton thingy!!!' That's like a bunny, not an actual plot. It reveals nothing about characters. Not the transformations, and not the resolution. Nobody had to act in character even once in the whole episode. It's so depressing.
Season 7 is on something. Possibly the newbie-fanfic something. There's a lot of weird dream stuff going on, including entire deeply depressing episodes where almost all of it was just a dream, a lot of being possessed, including Data being handed multiple personalities right after he did the amnesia thing, and now this turning into whole other species. It just seems like they ran out of steam so they kept turning them into something else entire.
The only one I can remember this season that was worth watching was Lower Decks, and that wasn't even about the usual main characters. Oh, and I skipped watching Parallels again-again-again, but that was okay as I recall; and once again, not about the existing setup. The Pegasus is the closest it got to proper ordinary story, and that was quite good, except I feel weirdly dislocated watching it because of having watched the Enterprise ep that weaves in with it.
I've only watched the first 19. Three out of 19 isn't encouraging though.
On the other hand, it makes me not sad the series ended.
On the gripping hand, it makes me sad I'm not sad the series ended.
I... what? I mean, what?
... somebody decided to film that. On purpose.
I know they do all sorts of terrible things to science. I'm well aware of this. But there's terrible, and there's terrible-and-pointless. I mean, really, what was the point of all that? 'Worf turns into a giant exoskeleton thingy!!!' That's like a bunny, not an actual plot. It reveals nothing about characters. Not the transformations, and not the resolution. Nobody had to act in character even once in the whole episode. It's so depressing.
Season 7 is on something. Possibly the newbie-fanfic something. There's a lot of weird dream stuff going on, including entire deeply depressing episodes where almost all of it was just a dream, a lot of being possessed, including Data being handed multiple personalities right after he did the amnesia thing, and now this turning into whole other species. It just seems like they ran out of steam so they kept turning them into something else entire.
The only one I can remember this season that was worth watching was Lower Decks, and that wasn't even about the usual main characters. Oh, and I skipped watching Parallels again-again-again, but that was okay as I recall; and once again, not about the existing setup. The Pegasus is the closest it got to proper ordinary story, and that was quite good, except I feel weirdly dislocated watching it because of having watched the Enterprise ep that weaves in with it.
I've only watched the first 19. Three out of 19 isn't encouraging though.
On the other hand, it makes me not sad the series ended.
On the gripping hand, it makes me sad I'm not sad the series ended.