Michelle Erica Green Trek reviews appreciation thread

[Gaith]

To tell the truth, I've barely watched any Trek in years... But when I return to it someday, by accessing on demand episodes from a Netflix box or the like, I'll be glad to have MG's reviews to steer me to the wheat and away from the chaff. Life's just too short for bad Trek.

To that end, I've compiled word files for each series, with a one-sentence MG quote pulled to sum up the overall quality. It's taken a fair amount of time, but I think it's worth it; if anyone's interested I'd be glad to post them.

Anyone else look forward to Friday's Retro Reviews? Here's hoping she writes up the movies after finishing TNG!

 

[number6]

No.

Not a MEG fan in the least.

 

[Amaris]

To tell the truth, I've barely watched any Trek in years... But when I return to it someday, by accessing on demand episodes from a Netflix box or the like, I'll be glad to have MG's reviews to steer me to the wheat and away from the chaff. Life's just too short for bad Trek.

To that end, I've compiled word files for each series, with a one-sentence MG quote pulled to sum up the overall quality. It's taken a fair amount of time, but I think it's worth it; if anyone's interested I'd be glad to post them.

Anyone else look forward to Friday's Retro Reviews? Here's hoping she writes up the movies after finishing TNG!

No.
I dislike MEG's reviews, and I'll leave it at that.

J.

 

[JNG]

She produces what are known in the field of literary criticism as "gendered readings." It grates.

I do look forward to them in that they can remind me of episodes, and moments from them, I hadn't thought of in a long time. I imagine this was a goal of the reviews, and in this they have been successful regardless of their actual content.

 

[Broccoli]

Everything is sexist to MEG. Her TOS reviews were horrid because she was looking at a 1960s show from a 2000s perspective. Not a good thing. And she all but declared the worst writer in Star Trek because of ENT's "Bounty." Not because the episode was a clunker, but because it dealt with women as slaves (even though the "slave" part was really a ruse).

I should probably stop now.

 

[Michael]

Love her reviews! Thanks for the hard work, MEG.

 

[MarianLH]

Everything is sexist to MEG. Her TOS reviews were horrid because she was looking at a 1960s show from a 2000s perspective. Not a good thing.

Never heard of her before this thread, so I looked them up to see for myself. So far, out of the first four TOS episodes only one has mentioned sexism at all, and in direct contrast to your claim it contains the following disclaimer:

This is all much easier for me to dismiss on a 1966 television series than it is when it occurs in 1995 Enterprise episodes, so while I can't not-mention it, it doesn't particularly diminish the episode for me

EDIT: Just read her review of ENT "Bounty". First, it's no harsher than Bernd Schneider's review, and second, it doesn't mention slaves at all. Also, I didn't see any mention of the phrase "worst writer", but with your fucked up grammar I'm not sure what you meant anyway. You're not under the impression she wrote the episode, or some other bad Trek episode, are you? Because that's one possible way to parse your mangled sentence.

EDIT #2: Okay, maybe you meant "Bound" rather than "Bounty". She does call it the worst Trek episode ever, and cites sexism as the reason why. I haven't seen it, so I can't comment on the accuracy of her review, but again, Bernd Schneider criticises the same things in his review. Nor does she make a particular deal about the slave thing in and of itself. There's nothing in her review that a real life BDSM enthusiast would object to.


Marian

 

[Jack Bauer]

She goes off into way too many feminist rant tangents. I stopped reading her reviews a long time ago. Sure not all of them are like that but enough of them are for me to want to avoid reading even a sentence of it for fear I'll come across one of her rants.

 

[Smiley]

If her reviews match your tastes, or if you can judge if you will like an episode or not from her reviews, then go ahead and use them. However, I find that I agree with her opinion only about 25% of the time.

Personally, I have found at least one worthwhile moment or scene in each Trek episode, even those I hate, so I would recommend watching it all at least once.

 

[Brian]

I enjoy MEG's reviews.

And I think too many here have an itchy trigger finger with the "feminazi" claims. Just because she watches them from a woman's point of view (she is a woman, after all), doesn't make her some kind of extremist nutjob.

All reviews are subjective, and those who have this agenda against MEG need to lighten up. Or stop reading her reviews and find a reviewer who thinks exactly like you do.

 

[Amaris]

I enjoy MEG's reviews.

And I think too many here have an itchy trigger finger with the "feminazi" claims. Just because she watches them from a woman's point of view (she is a woman, after all), doesn't make her some kind of extremist nutjob.

All reviews are subjective, and those who have this agenda against MEG need to lighten up. Or stop reading her reviews and find a reviewer who thinks exactly like you do.

Personally, I have no agenda against MEG, I simply find her reviews severely lacking. As for your reviewer comment, you do realize that, in general, people listen to reviewers they agree with, as this helps them decide whether they want to see the movie or not. If I agree with MEG 25% of the time, why would I read her reviews? 3 out of 4 reviews might lead me to avoid movies and episodes I would have enjoyed.


J.

 

[Michael]

I enjoy MEG's reviews.

And I think too many here have an itchy trigger finger with the "feminazi" claims. Just because she watches them from a woman's point of view (she is a woman, after all), doesn't make her some kind of extremist nutjob.

All reviews are subjective, and those who have this agenda against MEG need to lighten up. Or stop reading her reviews and find a reviewer who thinks exactly like you do.

Personally, I have no agenda against MEG, I simply find her reviews severely lacking. As for your reviewer comment, you do realize that, in general, people listen to reviewers they agree with, as this helps them decide whether they want to see the movie or not. If I agree with MEG 25% of the time, why would I read her reviews? 3 out of 4 reviews might lead me to avoid movies and episodes I would have enjoyed.

I think that'd be true for every review of a movie or series I haven't seen. But naturally (as a Trek fan) I've already seen all the episodes of all the series. I don't need reviews to tell me which episodes are good and which aren't. I already made up my mind. I just want to read the perspective of another viewer. Other thoughts about the episodes. And how boring would that be if they were always the same as mine?

So, again, all hail MEG!

 

[Brian]

As for your reviewer comment, you do realize that, in general, people listen to reviewers they agree with, as this helps them decide whether they want to see the movie or not. If I agree with MEG 25% of the time, why would I read her reviews? 3 out of 4 reviews might lead me to avoid movies and episodes I would have enjoyed.

That's the point I was trying to make. There are those around here who seem to read her reviews just so they can shit on them. If her POV is so contrary to theirs, then why read her reviews?

 

[Amaris]

I think that'd be true for every review of a movie or series I haven't seen. But naturally (as a Trek fan) I've already seen all the episodes of all the series. I don't need reviews to tell me which episodes are good and which aren't. I already made up my mind. I just want to read the perspective of another viewer. Other thoughts about the episodes. And how boring would that be if they were always the same as mine?

So, again, all hail MEG!

Different viewpoints are good. I tend not to agree with Roger Ebert, but he's one of my favorite reviewers (him and James Berardinelli). It's just for me, her style turns me away.

That's the point I was trying to make. There are those around here who seem to read her reviews just so they can shit on them. If her POV is so contrary to theirs, then why read her reviews?

Well, it's usually a "to each his or her own" thing. I don't know why people have to viciously attack her, although she has, in the past, given back as well as she's got. It's like Ann Coulter. I can't stand her and strongly dislike her style of, well, anything. But there are people who think she's the best thing since sliced bread. I'm okay with that, I'm just not a fan.


J.

 

[Brian]

Gotcha.

One more interesting point to make... Reading back over this "appreciation" thread, I just noticed that the first four replies are negative, indicative of what I was saying. If one does not appreciate her reviews, why come in to drop shitbombs in an appreciation thread?

I know, it's because it's the Internet. It's our way.

 

[Amaris]

Gotcha.

One more interesting point to make... Reading back over this "appreciation" thread, I just noticed that the first four replies are negative, indicative of what I was saying. If one does not appreciate her, why come to drop shitbombs in an appreciation thread?

I know, it's because it's the Internet. It's our way.

Definitely because it's our way.

Actually, I didn't see the 'appreciation' part of the thread. I just saw where it was mentioned about waxing nostalgia while reading MEG's reviews. Now I'll grant it would do that, but maybe the not the same feeling by all.


J.

 

[OmahaStar]

Um, no. I don't "appreciate" her at all. She twists decades-old episodes to fit her warped, narrow-minded views. She does not possess the ability to see things from outside this warped perspective, and insists on everyone else conforming to her views.

A few quick searches reveals enough about her background to pretty much disqualify her from the ability to get me to read any of her reviews. She's not worth my time. I say this having read many of her reviews and forming my own opinion of her based on her own words. I mean it's really special that she's a man-hating lesbian (source - her blog), and it's special beyond words just how much she hates Star Trek (source - her reviews). She's very special all right.

Enough said. I'm bored with this.

 

[Brian]

Case in point.

 

[Alidar Jarok]

One more interesting point to make... Reading back over this "appreciation" thread, I just noticed that the first four replies are negative, indicative of what I was saying. If one does not appreciate her reviews, why come in to drop shitbombs in an appreciation thread?

Well, threads dedicated only to praise make boring threads because they're extremely one-sided.

 

[Gaith]

...it's no harsher than Bernd Schneider's review...

Ooh, I'd been wondering if there were any other franchise-spanning, in-depth reviews. After skimming a few, he seems solid, but reading more than a few lines on his page is torture on the eyes.