Has age, new insight, children etc changed your view on any episodes?

[Yeoman Randi]

Last night i rewatched TNG's Silicon Avatar. I hadnt rewatched it in many years because i never really cared for the episode and found Dr Marr's character annoying and the whole thing kind of silly.

So, anyway, i rewatched it, and the episode effected me and hit me in a whole new light. I think in particular, because of circumstances that happened in my real life, i saw Dr Marr's character as incredibly sympathetic and absolutely heartbreaking. I was particularly moved when she heard her dead son's voice speaking through Data, as he "read" her dead son's journals.

I've also found myself seeing many other episodes differently, now that i have aged (a few) years since originally watching them.

Have any of you experienced this? Maybe because of becoming parents, loss, wisdom with age, etc? Have you found new ways to 'connect' with old episodes that you originally didnt care for?

No need to give private details or anything like that. Just wondering if anyone else has changed their opinions on episodes that didnt originally do anything for you, due to time, life, etc.

 

[CDR6]

Re: Has age, new insight, children etc changed your view on any episod

It sure has. An while I have aged a great deal since my first look at Star Trek back in the 60's, the same stories are no longer the same. However, I enjoy them now from a "different perspective", and some of them I enjoy simply because they are fun to watch. A few other things in my life are like that as well. But Star Trek (and all incarnations there in) I kind of have of taken in as "my own". (Makes a good hobby.)

-Chuck

 

[barnaclelapse]

Re: Has age, new insight, children etc changed your view on any episod

I would say age has influenced my perception of Star Trek over the years. I've been through hell and back a few times, and that certainly seems to change my overall perception of the things I might have loved as a child. I relate to certain characters more, for example. I also tend to view certain episodes as someone who has actually been out in the world a little more.

I realize it's a bit of jump to say that things in real life can affect your perception of a science fiction franchise, but I'd still say my outlook on Star Trek is different than it was when I was five or six years old.

Being a writer has influenced that quite a bit of over the years as well, especially since it was stuff like Star Trek that led me to start writing my own comics and stories as a small child in the first place. Now, having written for a living for the last twelve years I can say that I definitely pay a lot more attention to the writing side of all things Trek-related than I did when I was little.

 

[seigezunt]

Re: Has age, new insight, children etc changed your view on any episod

I'm more forgiving of Shatner's beer belly in Season 2.

 

[Yeoman Randi]

Re: Has age, new insight, children etc changed your view on any episod

^^ LOL!!!

I thought of another episode that i see in a whole new light.... DS9's first one, "The Emissary". When the wormhole aliens keep saying to Sisko, "And yet you choose to exist here"....meaning not getting past his wife's death and moving on with life.

When i first saw it i had never really lost anyone (in death, i mean) that i really loved or was very close to-- but as time marches on, we all eventually do lose someone we love....and suddenly, that scene can really hit home, you know?

 

[CorporalClegg]

Re: Has age, new insight, children etc changed your view on any episod

Yes. When I was a kid I loved TWOK.

Then I got a brain...