Especially if you hadn't seen some or all of it in a long time? Now that it is in one, relatively available and easy to find place, have you rewatched it? Have you brought preconceptions to it? Has it surprised you? Did you dislike it more??
Some of my own thoughts: I DO in fact rewatch some of STNG from time to time, I have a handful of STNG seasons on DVD. But the Sci-Fi airings have inspired me to watch more of it.
First, broadcast visual quality. With Sci-Fi HD the picture still looks better even if the source is not HD. I recall when watching STNG in the relatively primitive 1990s that my cable picture was still often grainy, that it cut out at times (and there were only 70-80 channels). I've never seen STNG look this good ON TV!
The dated look claimed by some people from this board hasn't surfaced. STNG looks better after 20 years than TOS did at 10. By comparison, Star Wars had appeared. There is nothing that has come since that has radically altered the quality of FX. CGI has proliferated, but it existed at the time of STNG. They used the Quantel Harry for a lot of simple FX and they still look good to this day. Perhaps the only disappointing thing about STNG is the use of video. STNG MUST be "remastered" to look its best. Some of the FX do look a little low res and with a lack of detail, but for the most part, they convey the scenes well enough. I watched the ending scene for "Q Who" last night and there is a beautiful ILM stock shot of the E-D as it flies away after the Borg encounter. Amazing!
Its sad that STNG prodcuers did not nominate its own actors (per Emmy regs) for awards more often. If the Academy had seen a lot of these early episodes, Stewart and Spiner would have been shoe ins. I'd forgotten how good the acting was in general.
Last night, 4 episodes from what I considered to be STNG's weakest season: season 2 blew me away. My wife even rewatched Measure of a Man with me. So is season 2 better than I remembered and therfore all of STNG??? Maybe, we will see!
Some of my own thoughts: I DO in fact rewatch some of STNG from time to time, I have a handful of STNG seasons on DVD. But the Sci-Fi airings have inspired me to watch more of it.
First, broadcast visual quality. With Sci-Fi HD the picture still looks better even if the source is not HD. I recall when watching STNG in the relatively primitive 1990s that my cable picture was still often grainy, that it cut out at times (and there were only 70-80 channels). I've never seen STNG look this good ON TV!
The dated look claimed by some people from this board hasn't surfaced. STNG looks better after 20 years than TOS did at 10. By comparison, Star Wars had appeared. There is nothing that has come since that has radically altered the quality of FX. CGI has proliferated, but it existed at the time of STNG. They used the Quantel Harry for a lot of simple FX and they still look good to this day. Perhaps the only disappointing thing about STNG is the use of video. STNG MUST be "remastered" to look its best. Some of the FX do look a little low res and with a lack of detail, but for the most part, they convey the scenes well enough. I watched the ending scene for "Q Who" last night and there is a beautiful ILM stock shot of the E-D as it flies away after the Borg encounter. Amazing!
Its sad that STNG prodcuers did not nominate its own actors (per Emmy regs) for awards more often. If the Academy had seen a lot of these early episodes, Stewart and Spiner would have been shoe ins. I'd forgotten how good the acting was in general.
Last night, 4 episodes from what I considered to be STNG's weakest season: season 2 blew me away. My wife even rewatched Measure of a Man with me. So is season 2 better than I remembered and therfore all of STNG??? Maybe, we will see!
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and maybe it's because of Nemesis playing in the back of my mind, I get easily irritated when Data gets dialogue that would've fitted different characters much better, which I never noticed when I watched the show ten years ago 
