So anyways, I have started watching the suggestions in this thread!
Camp is another word for suck.
You are going to miss out on a lot of entertaining TV shows and movies with that attitude. But to each his own.
I'm okay with missing out on the Xenas, and Legend of the Seekers of the world. Just because garbage is produced does not mean that I have to find a reason to watch it.
Cherry picking.
There was a time that I would have a bag of jelly beans, and then have to find some one to eat all the black ones left over.
Then I went to this wierdos birthday and all they had was black jelly beans.
Needs must as the devil drives.
Don't watch the best episode.
Watch the worst.
Suffer through some bollocks drivel shit which will put the rest in perspective.
Once you've sunk to a bottommost level of talentlessness, you can sit back and enjoy the rest of the series with nothing but blue skies ahead of you.
Start with Endgame.
Is it weird that this makes absolutely perfect sense to me?
Living Witness is the best episode.
So, I checked it out, and Living Witness is not bad at all, despite using the Nemesis Son'a face stretching set. I don't know that it's "the best" but I wasn't instantly revolted by it, and that's a good thing!
Along with those mentioned already, Counterpoint
This was my next episode, as it happened to be on the "captains choice" DVD fanset. Apparently it's Kate Mulgrew's favorite episode because of the "sexual tension".
I didn't see any sexual tension, I only saw a bad guy who was obviously going to betray the crew at the end of the episode, and so while it wasn't horrible, it was bland and uninteresting.
report to ditl.org immediately, click 'reviews' at the top, then click 'episode list' underneath the read 'voy' button on the left, then 'rating' at the top right.
This site ranks "Faces" as the number 1 Voyager episode. I don't know that it's that good, but it's an interesting character study for Torres. I think this was detracted from because I recall a later episode where Torres goes freakoid nuts because her baby will have ridges that completely cancels out the work done here.
This site ranks "Tuvix" as the number 3 best voyager episode (I couldn't find a copy of "Jetrel" to watch). "Tuvix" is an absolutely awful, horrible, horrible abomination of television, and if I had not already seen "threshold" I would classify it as the worst thing ever put on television. the dilemma in this episode was utter ridiculous on the level of "if your arm turned into a leprechaun, would it be immoral to have it spin straw into gold" level of awful.
"Tuvix" is as if I was walking through the plains of Voyager and suddenly stepped on a landmine. I shall have to be more cautious in the future.
I didn't rewatch this episode since it was the pilot and I have a pretty clear memory of it. This is the episode where not only does Janeway destroy her only means of returning home, thus incompetantly stranding her people in the Delta Quadrant.. she also violates the prime directive to do it!
I'll give her one thing: she certainly wastes no time.
Arrrrrgh, this episode was absolutely horrible! Kes is absolutely the least interesting character on Voyager (even less interesting than Neelix) and here, she is suppressed by some kind of bad guy tyrant.. and she goes around yelling at people and trying to intimidate them, despite her being in a 5 foot tall 80 pound waif body.
Still, it wasn't as awful as Tuvix. I'm trying to look at the bright side here.
Nobody here recommended it, but it was on the DVD I had so I watched it. This episode was suprisingly good, of special mention would be the alien race the missile is locked on to destroy.. they weren't just stereotypes, they actually had some character to them.
Ugh! Another freaking Kes episode. Aside from Kes's BS magic powers, the episode itself was pretty basic.. though I found it strange how all of a sudden they know all about the caretakers race, considering they've only met one of them before, and knew nothing of them at that time. This episode was merely on the bad side of "meh"
Here's an idea. Try re-watching the whole series with an open mind. Many have been pleasantly surprised when giving Voyager another chance.
The problem with going through chronologically and watching the whole series is that I don't have the entire set of episodes. In addition to which, even if I did have the entire set, I would constantly run into garbage like Threshold, Tuvix, and Bride of Chaotica.
the danger here, of course, being that I know about these 3 examples, but what other completely awful horrors await in store? I want to hit as few suck episodes as possible.
So far it's going okay, I was hoping for better results.
