ST:TNG All Good Things
Feb. 13th, 2011 01:46 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
beccaelizabethI have finally finished rewatching all 7 seasons of Star Trek the Next Generation.
Season 7 had the most episode that I'd never seen before, but All Good Things I'd seen a great many times, since it tends to win those 'best of' surveys.
In context though it fits with the weirdness, the focus on altered states of mind and people playing alternate versions of their characters, fits into the season real well. Those however are always the bits that make me all squirmy uncomfortable watching it. We know Picard is making sense, but nobody else knows, so it's all weird in the interactions.
Still makes me kind of tearful by the end. Seven years! All done now.
... think it was a good place to stop.
The other thing I have learned is my season 7 DVD box set is completely and consistently borked. It won't play the last two minutes on episodes 2 and 4. On any disc. At all. It just freezes and, if I'm lucky, stops as if the disc has ended. And it's not just on my shiny upscaling box, it's on the regular DVD player too, so it's the discs, not the box. Great. I need another box set that actually works. *sigh*
Also, having watched on both the upscale and the regular, dear god the upscaling does good things for the picture. Some bits are unwatchable on the old set. Yikes. Old version all muddy and trailing ghosts, new set shiny colors and crystal edges almost all the time. It's a very nice box I bought there.
I like the internet: I went on YouTube and found the missing minutes when I particularly needed them.
It's frustrating because the main plot wraps before those two minutes but the emotional resolution is held over for the tag scene, every time. I discover from this process I care about the emotions more than the bare plot, especially after this many rewatches. I want the closeups of people looking glum or happy or realising what their friends mean to them! It's the payoff for the whole episode. Or on occasion the whole season.
Picard joining the poker games: :-)
Season 7 had the most episode that I'd never seen before, but All Good Things I'd seen a great many times, since it tends to win those 'best of' surveys.
In context though it fits with the weirdness, the focus on altered states of mind and people playing alternate versions of their characters, fits into the season real well. Those however are always the bits that make me all squirmy uncomfortable watching it. We know Picard is making sense, but nobody else knows, so it's all weird in the interactions.
Still makes me kind of tearful by the end. Seven years! All done now.
... think it was a good place to stop.
The other thing I have learned is my season 7 DVD box set is completely and consistently borked. It won't play the last two minutes on episodes 2 and 4. On any disc. At all. It just freezes and, if I'm lucky, stops as if the disc has ended. And it's not just on my shiny upscaling box, it's on the regular DVD player too, so it's the discs, not the box. Great. I need another box set that actually works. *sigh*
Also, having watched on both the upscale and the regular, dear god the upscaling does good things for the picture. Some bits are unwatchable on the old set. Yikes. Old version all muddy and trailing ghosts, new set shiny colors and crystal edges almost all the time. It's a very nice box I bought there.
I like the internet: I went on YouTube and found the missing minutes when I particularly needed them.
It's frustrating because the main plot wraps before those two minutes but the emotional resolution is held over for the tag scene, every time. I discover from this process I care about the emotions more than the bare plot, especially after this many rewatches. I want the closeups of people looking glum or happy or realising what their friends mean to them! It's the payoff for the whole episode. Or on occasion the whole season.
Picard joining the poker games: :-)