Eye of the Beholder

[startrekwatcher]

I watched this one tonite. I remember finding that the episode started out with a somewhat intriguing mystery but then it ended in such an anti-climatic and lame way that it ruined the episode.

And you know what that was pretty much my assessment 13 years later. TNG was pretty good with these sci-fi episodes but this one was very much lacking. Could the end be any more abrupt and rushed?

So do you like it or not?

 

[Zhylka]

I liked it, but it's not my favorite episode. There is one thing that I noticed. More of an observation than an annoyance. This was first time I noticed Mirina Sirtis' lips. Don't get me wrong, she is very beautiful- in fact, I saw her at Dragoncon on 2005 and she looked very elegent. But in that particular episode they were very predominent.

I did like the fact she was wearing a uniform. When she started wearing it, I started liking her character even more.

 

[J47]

It was nice to see a new set on the Enterprise...but that was about all this episode really had going for it.

 

[WillsBabe]

I like this episode. I like the beginning when they are dashing through the Enterprise, and it's good to see Troi doing something a little different. Also the Troi/Worf thing interests me.

 

[Good Will Riker]

There are only 2 TNG episodes that I never caught during its origingal run, and "Eye of the Beholder" happens to be one of them (My friend Chris Henderson called me for 1 whole hour when this episode came on, and I missed the weekend recap. ), and the other being "Hide and Q" (which I actually saw a promo for on television in 1987.)

I finally caught up watching this episode in the fall of 1994. And "Hide and Q" in the spring of 1995.

 

[euphorik]

i actually like this one a lot - there aren't many 7th season shows that i don't have some kind of reservations about, but this is one of them. not a great episode by any stretch of the imagination, but definitely unobjectionable.

 

[startrekwatcher]

I'm surprised that people like it.

It to me exemplified a show that was hurt tremendously by the reveal. Up until then the episode was holding my interest then to find out most everything was "all in Troi's head". There wasn't a body in the nacelle which undermined the sort of cool secret history of the Enterprise. I loved even the idea of TNG trying to provide a sci-fi take on the idea of a place having a "psychic scar" because of something horrible happening there. I was just waiting to see how the writers were going to get Troi out of Worf's murder and then it just fizzles and the ending scene was awfully abrupt. I would have even preferred Troi's bizarre behavior taking place in reality due to the psychic impression making her recreate the jealous love triangle.

It was too easy in my opinion.