I posted on the forums a while back, having finished my first round ever of TNG. Some people recommended I tackle DS9 next, others suggested VOY. I watched the first season of both, and felt kind of meh about them. I'll still watch them, but for whatever reason I decided to watch the first season of ENT as well, and man do I love this show. I literally can't wait to watch the next one after I finish an episode.
I like the exploration. Granted they haven't done much of that since the whole Xindi storyline began to unfold. I thought the temporal cold war/Expanse story arc was quite good, but also exhausting. I was quite relieved when it finally wrapped up, even though it seems the show continued on with these "Archer must save Earth" stories right after the pleasant segue that was "Home." I am on the fourth season now, just finished the Vulcan storyline. It had its moments but I am hoping they'll get back to exploring soon.
There have been very few episodes I didn't care for. The Augment story was only watchable because I knew who Soong was. Had I not known, it would not have worked for me. Spiner's a really good actor, but I think the crazy evil scientist has been done a few too many times for it to work unless you know what he does later on. I liked the hint as to his future AI work at the end of the story.
I did skip the western episode. I watched about 10 minutes and then I just couldn't stomach it. I feel a little bit ashamed about that, but I hated the holodeck episodes in TNG, and this smacked a bit too much like one of them.
I don't know if it's a strong series the way TNG was, but it's definitely entertaining. I loved watching TNG, but I watched it much more leisurely. ENT I've been watching about 3 eps per day. It's just so damn exciting. I know many will disagree, but that's alright.
I like the whole cast, although I have no particular love for Mayweather. I find him rather annoying. He's a little too...happy. He constantly looks like he's "just so happy to be in space." I dunno, he just rubs me the wrong way, and that dysfunctional family episode of his didn't help.
Based on comments I had read about Enterprise I wasn't expecting much, but I have really been pleasantly surprised. There were a couple of episodes after which I literally said "holy shit" outloud as the credits rolled, because the writing and suspense was to me just that good. They had managed to recapture the concept of drama based on conflict rather than "where do we put Archer in danger this week?"
Here's hoping the rest of season four lives up to the high standard set by the previous ones.
I like the exploration. Granted they haven't done much of that since the whole Xindi storyline began to unfold. I thought the temporal cold war/Expanse story arc was quite good, but also exhausting. I was quite relieved when it finally wrapped up, even though it seems the show continued on with these "Archer must save Earth" stories right after the pleasant segue that was "Home." I am on the fourth season now, just finished the Vulcan storyline. It had its moments but I am hoping they'll get back to exploring soon.
There have been very few episodes I didn't care for. The Augment story was only watchable because I knew who Soong was. Had I not known, it would not have worked for me. Spiner's a really good actor, but I think the crazy evil scientist has been done a few too many times for it to work unless you know what he does later on. I liked the hint as to his future AI work at the end of the story.
I did skip the western episode. I watched about 10 minutes and then I just couldn't stomach it. I feel a little bit ashamed about that, but I hated the holodeck episodes in TNG, and this smacked a bit too much like one of them.
I don't know if it's a strong series the way TNG was, but it's definitely entertaining. I loved watching TNG, but I watched it much more leisurely. ENT I've been watching about 3 eps per day. It's just so damn exciting. I know many will disagree, but that's alright.
I like the whole cast, although I have no particular love for Mayweather. I find him rather annoying. He's a little too...happy. He constantly looks like he's "just so happy to be in space." I dunno, he just rubs me the wrong way, and that dysfunctional family episode of his didn't help.
Based on comments I had read about Enterprise I wasn't expecting much, but I have really been pleasantly surprised. There were a couple of episodes after which I literally said "holy shit" outloud as the credits rolled, because the writing and suspense was to me just that good. They had managed to recapture the concept of drama based on conflict rather than "where do we put Archer in danger this week?"
Here's hoping the rest of season four lives up to the high standard set by the previous ones.
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