Besides, that at least has a great scene that explains the 'why' of Worf.
Even the 5th worst episode of DS9 has something redeemable.
Is DS9 worth binging?
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Even the 5th worst episode of DS9 has something redeemable.
Watched that episode once. Haven't seen it since Nineteen Hundred and Ninety-Six!
I'm both excited about getting back up to it and dreading it at the same time.
I'm both excited about getting back up to it and dreading it at the same time.
Just out of curiosity, what do you think aged poorly about TNG? I'm only a little halfway season 2, so maybe I haven't seen it to it's full extent yet. The animation and costumes definitely come to mind for me so far
"You have not experienced Deep Space Nine until you have watched it in the original Allamarain."
ALLAMARAINE!!!!
For some people it's content rather than entertainment. Just something to look at briefly instead of engaging with.
Although I have skipped through a movie or two after I've realized that they are garbage, so perhaps I shouldn't talk.
She’s 33. Hardly a teenager wanting to fit in.
Attention spans seem to be lessening I think.
I work with adults wanting to fit in, including 30 year olds and 50 year olds.
I agree attention spans are starting to lessen, but I doubt that's the only part of it. But, that's my unscientific opinion.
What is it that you do again?
Mental Health Counselor.
I find myself falling victim to it sometimes and I hate myself for it.
One of my beefs about modern programming is the amount of padding in the form of repetition.
In "fiction" TV, the "mystery box" is frequently used in this way - and the "mystery" is rarely worth it. In "factual" or "reality" TV, it's telling you what you are going to see, recaps of what you have just seen and all-too-common "reminders of the journey " (ie clips from previous shows). For live sports, it's various forms of "time-out" and advertising.
Recording the programme and skipping these boring and inessential parts reduces many shows quite considerably. (I have in mind an "hour-long" documentary that contained about 18 minutes of actual material and many "quiz" shows are 2/3rds empty chatter, 1/3rd, questions)
In theory, I share your horror. In practice, fast-forwarding reduces the amount of time wasted.
If I felt my leisure activity in any way constituted a waste of my time, I would select another leisure activity.
For some people it's content rather than entertainment. Just something to look at briefly instead of engaging with.
Although I have skipped through a movie or two after I've realized that they are garbage, so perhaps I shouldn't talk.
By this point, we have all been well habituated to the slop AI will start producing for us.
mmm love the continuing misuse of the term "filler".
and if people are making lists of the "correct" episodes to watch like this, and eschewing all others, then they are also not "bingeing". and this is especially a poor way to watch something for the first time.
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maybe we would have actually cared about airiam, for example, if we had spent an episode or two with her beforehand...
Yeah. At least the episode itself gave us a look into who she was before what happened happened, but the funeral in the next episode, while well executed, also felt like laying it on a bit thick, if only because it was so inconsistent with how we've typically seen character deaths in Trek handled (though frankly this was an example of how in reality it should be; people deserve to be remembered). It would have been better writing to sprinkle character bits throughout the season leading up to this though, rather than giving us the deep dive in her final episode.
Which I suppose is my way of saying I did care to some degree (at least she'd been present since the beginning), but I was also aware of what the show was doing to manipulate our emotions rather than letting them develop more organically.
some interactions with tilly, an argument with stamets, an episode b-plot were she's dealing with a glitch of some kind, something. instead of just kind of being in the background, getting replaced by a different actress just so she can die and then get replaced by her original actress as a different character, who then proceded to also just be kind of there.
there were regular extras on TNG that got more, i swear.
Like Ensign Rager... in "Night Terrors", she forgot how to use the helm due to sleep deprivation. And in "Schisms", she was one of the crew being experimented on. She even got a first name there, Sariel.
Hell, Morn on DS9 got more development than some of the DISCO characters. And he never spoke a single word.
Never understood really the need for episodes to care about characters. I still cry over Tomlinson.
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