danny la rouge
More like *fanny* la rouge!
I’ve finished Enterprise. I think it’s been unfairly maligned. Once I got used to it, I liked it. Seasons 1 and 2 are the most even in terms of story quality. Season three drags at the start, then picks up. Season 4 is more patchy, but has some excellent moments. The Temporal Cold War seems to just peter out in Season 4. I thought it would re-emerge, but they just seem to forget about it.
I wasn’t keen on the Nazi episodes. Nor did I like the Mirror Universe ones; in fact, I gave up on the second one and skipped to the next story. That’s the only time I had to do that with Enterprise. They were especially pointless because they interrupted the flow of a series reaching its conclusion, and didn’t have any of “Our” Universe Enterprise crew, so it was hard to see why we were supposed to care. And I didn’t. Although I enjoyed the changed theme tune and title sequence.
Final episode:
So now I've just got a couple of the TNG films to see and DISCO.
I wasn’t keen on the Nazi episodes. Nor did I like the Mirror Universe ones; in fact, I gave up on the second one and skipped to the next story. That’s the only time I had to do that with Enterprise. They were especially pointless because they interrupted the flow of a series reaching its conclusion, and didn’t have any of “Our” Universe Enterprise crew, so it was hard to see why we were supposed to care. And I didn’t. Although I enjoyed the changed theme tune and title sequence.
Final episode:
I thought at first they were going to do a Bobby-wakes-up-in-the-shower style “it was all just a holonovel that Ryker was using”, but they didn’t. I kind of get that it was supposed to show that they’d gone down in history, and to locate the series within Trek mythology. But I felt it actually undermined the show and crew by not allowing them their own conclusion: they were just part of a story that hadn’t even been thought through properly between Ryker and an unseen Picard. (I did smile when they only had Data’s voice, though: the actor had just been in Enterprise a few episodes previously and we therefore knew he’d grown too old to carry off the boyish android’s appearance any more!)
So now I've just got a couple of the TNG films to see and DISCO.
