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I officially began my journey through all Star Trek on October 9th...

I'm late to the party (I stopped getting notifications for this thread for some reason) but am I the only one that's glad Year of Hell wasn't the entire seasons arc?

It's bad enough when the reset button is pressed at the end of a single episode or a two parter. Imagine if an ENTIRE SEASON was reset out of existence.

That'd pissed me off to no end.
Past episodes are only very rarely remembered on Voyager and when they are most of the time they are retconned rather than remembered. When braxton for example "remembers" his previous meetings with Janeway they are only vaguely related to what we actually saw.
 
It's bad enough when the reset button is pressed at the end of a single episode or a two parter. Imagine if an ENTIRE SEASON was reset out of existence.
No, but consider that YoH was a compromise, and there is no reason to believe that Braga would have wanted to see the series reset if it had gone through a year long arc. The reset button always reflected the desires of the studio, not the writers in particular. Had Braga won the argument about Year of Hell, there is every reason to believe that Voyager would have been embracing serialization in some way.
 
If they didn't hit the reset button it'd be different, sure, but then it wouldn't be a one season arc, it'd have been the entire series - which, as I'm sure we all agree with here, is what the show should have been the entire time.

Two small enemy crews forced to work together on one ship, surviving through 70,000 light years of hostile forces with no support, limited supplies, and little hope. All with the knowledge that if they survive their earlier trials an advanced cybernetic / biological species bent on their destruction is coming for them.

I would watch that show.

In fact, I did watch that show. When it was called BattleStar Galactica. It was great. Until
everyone turned out to be an angel.
 
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If they didn't hit the reset button it'd be different, sure, but then it wouldn't be a one season arc, it'd have been the entire series - which, as I'm sure we all agree with here, is what the show should have been the entire time.

Two small enemy crews forced to work together on one ship, surviving through 70,000 light years of hostile forces with no support, limited supplies, and little hope. All with the knowledge that if they survive their earlier trials an advanced cybernetic / biological species bent on their destruction is coming for them.

I would watch that show.

In fact, I did watch that show. When it was called BattleStar Galactica. It was great.

You had me...

Until everyone turned out to be an angel.

...then you lost me.
 
I was cool with it. Trek has boatloads of god-beings who meddle in human affairs. This just involved god-beings meddling in human affairs who didn't explain themselves. And unless I missed something, everyone didn't turn out to be an angel.
 
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I was cool with it. Trek has boatloads of god-beings who meddle in human affairs. This just involved god-beings meddling in human affairs who didn't explain themselves. And unless I missed something, everyone didn't turn out to be an angel.

Three of the main cast being angels is a good percentage of it :)

To each his own, I'll agree that the ending of the series was better than the follow up "The Plan" where it was revealed that that super secret, elaborate plan mentioned in the opening credits of the episodes turned out to be "Kill all humans" .
 
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Well, one was an "angel" all along and said as much fairly early on...it just turned out that she wasn't lying. Another took the form of a main character, but wasn't the character himself. The third I didn't mind...I really liked what they did with her last scene.
 
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I enjoyed the BSG finale too. I still miss that series. The only one I can remember 'suddenly' turning into an angel was Starbuck, though we knew something wasn't right with her after we found out she hadn't died.

We knew Head Six and Head Baltar weren't really there for as long as they appeared, and they aren't the actual characters they look like. The whole point of them was that Baltar and Six thought they were imagining the whole thing at first, until they finally realised their role in everything.

I can't work out how clear I'm being, it's 4am here and I'm off to work in a few minutes. :wtf:
 
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Oh you are perfectly clear, I disagree with you but I respect people have different preferences and have no desire to try convincing any of you that you are "wrong" for liking it - to each his / her own. If it worked for you guys then awesome, I'm glad you were all satisfied. I wasn't, but that's my personal taste.

My bad for posting something that derailed the thread for a couple of pages, it wasn't my intention.
 
There's nothing to apologize for, but I do fear spoiling our OP too much, since he said he's planning to watch BSG sometime in the future.
 
You know, thinking about it, I feel very few shows ever stick the ending. The only "perfect" show ending I can think of is The Shield.
 
You know, thinking about it, I feel very few shows ever stick the ending. The only "perfect" show ending I can think of is The Shield.

I don't know. I've found a few series endings that were satisfactory. I don't know if the perfect ending exists since you can always find something better.
 
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