TNG; you were wonderful, inspiring and entertaining. And boring, must not forget boring.
I Love TNG
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TNG was the most consistently enjoyable of all Trek series from mid season two until the end of season six. Far from boring.
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^ Yeah, Season Two about halfway just really picked up the pace and started running. I love my Season Two DVD set.
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Not half as boring as DS9 was.
Why was DS9 widely seen as boring? I don't get that, as much I don't get how Seasons 5/6 of Voyager are inferior to Seasons 2/3.
With The Next Generation, most of its earlier episodes are now quite difficult watch and aged worse than TOS, although most of Season Five and Six of TNG is as good or better than I remembered it, although there are still a few duds even then.
When I think of TNG, the colour greyish-pink comes to mind.
Why is that?? I just saw it with him recently, its an amazing, touching episode with great music and some of the best FX of the series. I love re-watching the old eps on a 46" inch screen too.
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Why is that?? I just saw it with him recently, its an amazing, touching episode with great music and some of the best FX of the series. I love re-watching the old eps on a 46" inch screen too.
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I just watched it -it was next up in my run-through of TNG. It's an OK episode -and the music in it *IS* fantastic- but it's not an episode I've ever really liked. I guess I just don't like Tam and it makes it hard for me to like the episode.
If they hadn't gone to extreme lengths with Tam, Tin Man might have been considered a classic. Tam was just too annoying which almost ruined a well plotted episode.
Yeah, Tam was just too much. He was an annoying douche who I couldn't stand and there's nothing "redeemable" about his character. I'm supposed to care that he goes off to have a May-December relationship with an elderly, infirm, living space vessel?
Pfft.
Tin Man, however, would certainly be in my "upper" set of TNG episodes and certainly not one of it's worst moments.
Pfft.
Tin Man, however, would certainly be in my "upper" set of TNG episodes and certainly not one of it's worst moments.
That's quite a sad and unfair opinion, since even though the uneven first season had dross like "Q-Less" which must've chased away millions of viewers, which missed out on the excellent "Duet".
DS9 - mustard yellow and brown, chocolate brown, dark grey, and violet.
V'Ger - Dark blue, silver grey, and light green.
Now that's amazing. Usually watching "Tin Man" makes me want to break things.
Why is that?? I just saw it with him recently, its an amazing, touching episode with great music and some of the best FX of the series. I love re-watching the old eps on a 46" inch screen too.
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I just watched it -it was next up in my run-through of TNG. It's an OK episode -and the music in it *IS* fantastic- but it's not an episode I've ever really liked. I guess I just don't like Tam and it makes it hard for me to like the episode.
Hmm, I feel its a realistic and touching transformation of a damaged, incomplete man and a very unusual but humanized alien...we can wind up identifying with BOTH despite their differences to us. Its full of good moments for Data, Troi, and the guest star and probably should have been nominated for some awards. I guess it honestly didn't occur to me that anyone didn't like this episode.
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Oh, agreed with you. (I like DS9.)
That seems right to me. VGR's light green would be from the Borg, no?
I remember my first impression of TNG when I watched the premiere was: It's sure strange to hear an English accent on a captain's log, and coming from a captain. I was, of course, used to Kirk's voice, so it was a bit disconcerting at first. Even though the first season was uneven, I sure do like TNG a hell of a lot, too! My fave characters are Picard, Data, Worf, and Riker. -- RR
I have to admit, TNG is what sealed the deal on Trek for me. The TOS movies were what sparked my interest. But watching the early seasons of TNG were truly captivating. Looking back on them now, they aren't quite as profound as I remember them ... but there's no denying that TNG developed into the "gold standard" to which all subsequent shows (DS9, B5, BSG, etc.) are compared.
I didn't want you to "like" him.
I feel asleep on the couch this afternoon while my husband & I were watching the news. When I woke up, he had gone upstairs to read, but he left the TV tuned to "Cause & Effect" on BBC America.
"Tin Man" is one of my personal favorites. I'm going to cut and paste what I said in another thread:
When I first watched the episode back when I was a teenager, I absolutely hated him--who was this guy who didn't get along with Riker and Picard, and put our beloved Enterprise in danger? What kind of jerk wouldn't want to hang around the cool Federation people I watched every week?
Coming at it 20 years later, I obviously feel differently. Like I said in the last graph, he made the regulars much more interesting characters.
When I first watched the episode back when I was a teenager, I absolutely hated him--who was this guy who didn't get along with Riker and Picard, and put our beloved Enterprise in danger? What kind of jerk wouldn't want to hang around the cool Federation people I watched every week?
Coming at it 20 years later, I obviously feel differently. Like I said in the last graph, he made the regulars much more interesting characters.
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